Gapless? Yes or No?

[gaplesssport]

Hey,

Just got off a chat with SanDisk. I was trying to figure out if the Sport supports gapless playback. The chat was hugely confusing, and I feel like the agent didn’t actually understand what I was trying to figure out. I was told at one point that the Sport supports gapless, however, the agent was clearly confused as to what that was. Can anyone definitively answer this question for me?

I loved the Clip+, and had no issues with gapless on that device. Live and studio albums would play tracks with no gaps like they were meant to. I was listening to a live album on the Sport this weekend, and I was disturbed by gaps. Reminded me of my old iPod from ten years ago…

Thanks!

[saratoga]

I don’t think Sandisk has ever made a player with gapless, and I doubt the sport is the first.

[miikerman]

But, the Clips are near-gapless; I hear the briefest of slight pops between files, typically.

[drlucky]

the sport does not support gapless playback

[gaplesssport]

SanDisk should instruct their chat agents to not literally say “Yes, the Sport supports gapless playback,” then! 

I’m gonna have to return this thing and buy another Clip+ so I can listen to live albums where songs run together with no interruption, again…

[tapeworm]

I think bringing out the Sport model was the smartest thing SanDisk could do to spur/increase sales of the their Clip+ and Zip models.

Too bad they have to eat so many returns of the Sport in order to achieve those positive sales percentages of the other players though.

[jazz]

@tapeworm wrote:

I think bringing out the Sport model was the smartest thing SanDisk could do to spur/increase sales of the their Clip+ and Zip models.

Sadly in my town (Zurich, Switzerland) the Clip Zip isn’t available in shops anymore («sold out»); the Clip+ still is, but how long… These days most stores only carry the Sport – as only SanDisk player.

[miikerman]

Thankfully, the online store world still exists . . . .