How is your Sansa Clip battery life?

coyote400 · February 21, 2009, 4:24pm

This is wonderful. Thank you very much for all the hard work. You MUST be an engineer. Can’t wait for the next round of results. Hope it will include tests at full volume, since that is where I play mine (bad ears). Ratio of charge time to play time seems impressive. If only they could get an electric car to run that well.

I am confused about one thing. I can’t find an 8GB clip on the Sansa website.

marvin_martian · February 21, 2009, 4:49pm

@coyote400 wrote:

This is wonderful. Thank you very much for all the hard work. You MUST be an engineer. Can’t wait for the next round of results. Hope it will include tests at full volume, since that is where I play mine (bad ears). Ratio of charge time to play time seems impressive. If only they could get an electric car to run that well.

I am confused about one thing. I can’t find an 8GB clip on the Sansa website.

http://go.shopsansa.com/content/clip

The 8GB clip exists…but you can find it cheaper than the price you will see there.

cllipman · February 21, 2009, 5:32pm

Coyote, If you are in America, run down to a Wal*Mart- they have the 8GB Clip for $49!!!

miikerman · February 21, 2009, 6:14pm

And by America, he means the U.S.A.

cllipman · February 21, 2009, 6:38pm

@miikerman wrote:

And by America, he means the U.S.A.

They don’t have Wal*Mart in Canada or Mexico?

miikerman · February 22, 2009, 8:54am

Apparently, the Canadian Wal-Marts aren’t having this sales price–I don’t know about Mexico …

coyote400 · February 22, 2009, 2:53pm

Thanks, Marvin. Found the 8GB clip at the link you posted. Will check out Walmart next time I am there.

icsterm · March 2, 2009, 2:34am

it’s interesting that ogg playback is similar to flac playback.

As far as i can see, mp3 v0 remains the best audio format for the Clip.

So i will erase my ogg library from my Clip very soon and reconvert to mp3 v0.

laynnetaylor · March 12, 2009, 12:33am

I have a car adapter for my sansa clip but when I plug it in the player just charges, I can not get it to play. According to the manual I should be able to charge and listen at the same time. I have my car stereo on aux, like I normally do when listening to my player in the car. What am I doing incorrectly?

miikerman · March 12, 2009, 1:29am

And do you have an audio cable going from your Clip’s headphone jack to the auxiliary in connection of your car stereo? No sound goes through the Clip’s USB port.

Instead of a USB cable, you can use an audio cassette adapter going from the Clip’s headphone jack to a car cassette player; or you can attach an FM transmitter to the Clip’s headphone jack and have the sound come from your car FM radio.

laynnetaylor · March 12, 2009, 11:56pm

Thanks for responding…The headphones are connected to the headphone jack then into my aux on car stereo - I can not seem to play the sansa while it is charging - the display just shows the player is charging - I can not press any buttons to press play to listen

conversionbox · March 13, 2009, 12:53am

@laynnetaylor wrote:
Thanks for responding…The headphones are connected to the headphone jack then into my aux on car stereo - I can not seem to play the sansa while it is charging - the display just shows the player is charging - I can not press any buttons to press play to listen

How are you chargeing when you want to play?

laynnetaylor · March 13, 2009, 1:21am

I am charging with my car adaptor that plugs into the lighter

cllipman · March 13, 2009, 1:37am

Forgive me if this is too obvious…but did you turn the Clip on?

miikerman · March 13, 2009, 1:58am

I’m not sure what the issue is, apart from my hunch that it’s connnected to your car cigarette lighter adapter (which is making the Clip behave like it is connected to a computer rather than to a dedicated power supply). I just tried my Clip in my car, connected to the cigarette lighter by a GPS unit cigarette lighter adapter that I use, and my Clip starts up for play and I’m able to play it.

Could you try a different car cigarette lighter adapter? (Or, of course, you just could use the Clip on battery supply in your car.)

laynnetaylor · March 14, 2009, 12:07am

Yes, I try to turn the clip on, but it acts like it is just charging (like when it is charging on the computer) Will not allow me to do anything with it while plugged into my lighter.

cllipman · March 14, 2009, 12:23am

O-K…

Here’s a little test: If you DON’T attach the Clip to the lighter for charging- just play it on it’s own battery, with the cord from the headphone jack to the car stereo, does it play?

If yes: Then the Cigarette lighter charger is the problem- get a different one (as someone else said, the one you have may have the pins to connect USB-fashion, instead of having blank data pins).

If no: …uh…well…beats me!

miikerman · March 14, 2009, 2:51am

Either the cigarette charger adapter is the issue, or the cable going from it to the Clip–if there is a separate cable (that is, it is not permanently attached to the adapter), you may want to try a different one.

laynnetaylor · March 14, 2009, 5:04pm

I appreciate everyone’s help. The player does play just fine on it’s on battery. I did go out and get a different USB cable to go from my lighter charger to my player and all is working now.

miikerman · March 14, 2009, 9:57pm

Great to hear! I have the reverse issue with a new USB cable: it allows the Clip to play and charge but won’t allow a data connection. Arggh!

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