As we are constantly trying to improve our product design and user experience I would like to ask for your feedback. While I cannot guarantee all feature requests will be implemented all feedback is taken into consideration. Please use this thread to consolidate Clip Zip feature requests, feature enhancement and feedback. Please let us know what you like or don’t like about the product and how we can improve the Clip Zip.
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Please give us variable speed playback with pitch correction for podcasts and audiobooks. This doesn’t have to be continuous, but having choices of 0.8x, 1.2x, 1.4x, and 1.6x would be nice.
I hope the player Sandisk introduces next September has microSDXC card support, HD radio, variable speed playback with automatic pitch correction, and 50+ hour battery life(I guess that one will replace the Fuze+?)
Also consider learning a lesson from Swatch, which at first only made plastic watches, but then later came out with ones with a metal case as well. It would be nice if Sandisk would make a premium edition of its players with an aluminum(or titanium?) case.
Having a digital display of elapsed time and time remaining(and not just a progress bar) is extremely important for those of us who listen to lectures and podcasts on the mp3 player. It would be nice if we could be given a choice to display album art or elapsed time and time remaining. Another idea would be to display album art just for music, and display elapsed time and time remaining for files in the audiobook or podcast areas.
@jk98 wrote:
Having a digital display of elapsed time and time remaining(and not just a progress bar) is extremely important for those of us who listen to lectures and podcasts on the mp3 player. It would be nice if we could be given a choice to display album art or elapsed time and time remaining. Another idea would be to display album art just for music, and display elapsed time and time remaining for files in the audiobook or podcast areas.
There is an elapsed remaining feature in the podcasts section. Left hand side shows how long has elapsed and the right shows time left.
Now that’s a nice thought, a Clip Executive Version with a metal case would be really nice. Not simply aluminum, but a steel clamshell would look and feel great. Talk about a bulletproof Sansa!!
Bob 
@neutron_bob wrote:
Now that’s a nice thought, a Clip Executive Version with a metal case would be really nice. Not simply aluminum, but a steel clamshell would look and feel great. Talk about a bulletproof Sansa!!
Bob
I cant wait to test out the bullet proof player.
Indeed! I have one of the SlotMusic devices with its hard metal shell. The little thing feels as solid as a Dunhill lighter.
Bob
@conversionbox wrote:
@neutron_bob wrote:
Now that’s a nice thought, a Clip Executive Version with a metal case would be really nice. Not simply aluminum, but a steel clamshell would look and feel great. Talk about a bulletproof Sansa!!
Bob
I cant wait to test out the bullet proof player.
Neither can Uncle Ted!
@jk98 wrote:
I hope the player Sandisk introduces next September has microSDXC card support, HD radio, variable speed playback with automatic pitch correction, and 50+ hour battery life(I guess that one will replace the Fuze+?)
I don’t know about official support, but I bet if you formatted a 64GB SDXC card as fat32, it would work in the Clip Zip. Have to wait until 64GB micro SDXC card exist to test it though.
With SDXC support though, I would also expect the song limit to be expanded, perhaps to 20,000 or more. I guess this would mean the player needs to have more ram.
@jk98 wrote:
With SDXC support though, I would also expect the song limit to be expanded, perhaps to 20,000 or more. I guess this would mean the player needs to have more ram.
If you could live without the database functions, and just use folder browsing and the GoList, then you could get by without adding RAM.
I must say, these customizable menus are awesome. I have Music, and Settings…and that’s it! :smileyvery-happy:
@miikerman wrote:
It’s always interesting what people want and like–I just couldn’t see any real great value to that feature, apart from for those people who go to locations where devices with radios or recording capability are not allowed.
How often did we see people complaining about the slotradio icon they couldn’t avoid in their menus, in the Clip+ and Fuze?
To me, it’s just convenience…why have to scroll through the things I am not using, and keep the screen lit that little bit longer, if I don’t have to?
It’s like your love for a clock-only screen…I’m a little mystified by that (no offense, of course) . Just having the time there, that I can see, is nice enough. The Clip+ running Rockbox, I never used one of the themes with just a big clock, because I wanted more info than just the time. See what I mean? You want more info on the now playing screen, yet you also want a clock-only screen…seems contradictory to me. You’d need another button press to get to that screen, which would keep the screen lit up longer, eating up your battery…but I digress! :smileyvery-happy:
My thought on a Big Clock Display is simple: the first touch of the controls after it blanks the screen, as in normal playback, does nothing. Successive touches of the controls are interpreted as active commands.
Taks advantage of that first touch! The display should wake up with a cool BIG time display, as the next touch will operate the device. This option can be user-selectable in the Settings menu.
My preference for font? Hey, we have a cool graphic interface, in color. I would have a Nixie tube graphic like this:
At least, a big font with the cool characters would be great.
Bob :smileyvery-happy:
Please bring back 2 things I loved about the display in my Clip: elapsed time in the track playing and the track number/total tracks indicator. I was quite surprised these two features were left out and they shouldn’t have been.
Also, gapless playback (if it doesn’t support it). The irritating gaps in some LPs like “Dark Side of the Moon” or classical music really detracted from the music. Some other players (yeah, some begin with “i”) can do it so why can’t the Clip Zip?
tnmats wrote:
Also, gapless playback (if it doesn’t support it). The irritating gaps in some LPs like “Dark Side of the Moon” or classical music really detracted from the music. Some other players (yeah, some begin with “i”) can do it so why can’t the Clip Zip?
It plays Gapless. Its may not be 1000% perfect but Listening to live comedy albums as proved to be perfect in terms of listening quality.
@conversionbox wrote:
It plays Gapless. Its may not be 1000% perfect but Listening to live comedy albums as proved to be perfect in terms of listening quality.
Thanks Conversionbox. I recently got a (company supplied) iPhone so I’ve gotten to use the iPod portion a bit. I really loved the true gapless function so it spoiled me a bit. I HATED the fact that it didn’t have a true multiband EQ nor could play my FLAC files though like my Clip does.
How’s 44.1kHz playback? In the final FW revision for my Clip, Sandisk improved it but I can still hear some pitch error. Hopefully that’s fully resolved with the Clip+/Clip Zip. And I REALLY hope they bring back the elapsed time/total time indicator along with the track/total track indicator my Clip had. I was really surprised to see it gone.
I ordered 2 8GB black CZs (for my wife and me); and Sandisk threw in a travel pouch for both. Can’t wait to get them. The iPhone is nice but the Clip is so much easier to use when I go out running. And I sure would have never paid for an iFruit device out of my own pocket!
Feature Request: “Timed Auto Pause” (for audiobooks primarily).
I listen to audiobooks a lot when I go to sleep, and I keep an ageing “iAudio U2” for this purpose alone. It has a feature where you can play 1 track, it pauses and waits for you to press play to play next track and if I don’t press play within a certain time the device turns itself off. As I might fall a sleep in 5 minutes or 45 minutes, I don’t need to worry about setting an “Auto Off timer” and have the hassle of finding where I actually fell asleep. It will always be in the last track played (i.e. the last 5 minutes), so I can quickly just go backward 1 track and continue listening. Normally I go back 2 tracks, because I don’t remember much from 5-10 minutes before sleep.
If you could have the same feature implemented on your Sansa players it would be awesome, but I have an even better idea:
Instead of relying on tracks (which not always come in 5 minute chunks), why not just make it a “Timed Auto Pause” where the device pauses every X minutes, waiting a brief time for you to press play to continue or otherwise shut down (obviously rembering the position). When you start it next time, the back button should be able to take you back X minutes for each press, so that you easily can continue from where you were really awake and remember. Preferably, auto-bookmarking should be used (as well as manual bookmarking) for audiobooks, so you can use the mp3 player for other things and still easily get back to your audiobook later.
So I see this feature as an option where you could have the following settings:
“Timed Auto Pause”: Enable/Disable
“Play Time”: X minutes (until pause)
“Back Time:” X minutes (i.e. for rewinding with back button single press X minutes)
“Shutdown Time”: X seconds (or just use some global setting for shutdown time)
… or just do it like my ageing iAudio U2, which has “Single Track” play option, which does what I described at the top.
Cheers,
Fredrik
P.S. I have a Clip+ for music alone, as I find it hard to use for audiobooks in other aspect as well, most particularly with regards to lack of bookmarking. Even though there is some function to remember where you stopped an audiobook it does not work well with my mp3s which are labelled by CD number and track. I can only get it to work if I merge everything to one single mp3-file. So I think improvements are in order for audiobooks in general, if Zip is like Clip+.
P.S. I have a Clip+ for music alone, as I find it hard to use for audiobooks in other aspect as well, most particularly with regards to lack of bookmarking. Even though there is some function to remember where you stopped an audiobook it does not work well with my mp3s which are labelled by CD number and track. I can only get it to work if I merge everything to one single mp3-file. So I think improvements are in order for audiobooks in general, if Zip is like Clip+.
The Clip+ and Clip Zip work okay for audiobooks or series of podcasts. If you tag your audiobook and give each file the same album tag, and fill in the track number tag(it is easiest if the numbering starts with 100, assuming there are less than 900 files) the player won’t just remember the place in the file, but which file it was playing last in the audiobook. Editing the tags is easy with mp3tag. I do miss the lack of variable speed playback with automatic pitch correction though.
I previously stated that I wanted an optional mode with a user settable value that will turn the player off if no buttons are pressed within that time. That way if someone is listening to the player and gets distracted and forgets to pause the player, the battery won’t get run down.
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