I was wondering if anyone could help me. Have been enjoying my new Sansa Clip + for the last couple of weeks. Just been using the radio function - finally figured out how to load an audiobook cd onto the player. The player is recognized on my computer, and the audio tracks are in the player just fine. When I start the audio book, the player shuts down after about three minutes of play. I need to do a soft reset before it will turn on again. This happens every time I try to play the audio book. I have not loaded any songs on the player as of yet, and was wondering if this problem was from something that I did wrong, or if I just have a faulty player. This is my first mp3 player, so I am new at this. :-) The radio, and the pre-loaded songs work fine. I have contacted customer service, but have had no reply. Thought I’d try the forum before I give them a call.
I copied and pasted the files to my computer directly from my audio cd, then put them on the player. The file extension for the tracks is .wav. I am using ubuntu linux/rythmbox.
JK98 wrote:
You need to use ripping software and rip the files to mp3 or wma. The Clip+ probably doesn’t even support .wav files.
Although I don’t play wav files, the Clip+ User Manual says that the player supports wav files.
While .wav is a supported file format, as that’s the format the player creates when recording voice and/or radio, that is still a low bit-rate type of file. I believe I’ve read here before that attempting to use full-blown WAV files will choke the devices; just too much digital data to decypher all at once. For those wanting CD quality there’s FLAC format which works very nicely.
Update: I was able to convert the .wav files to .ogg files with sound juicer. Somehow I should be able to convert to mp3, but right now the .ogg files are working. Thanks so much! And yes, the .wav files take up much more space. I have the 2G Clip +, and one cd filled the clip+ using the .wav files. With the .ogg files, I was able to put all the cd’s on my player, and still have room. Of course, then I had six #1 tracks, six #2 tracks. . .but right now I’m happy that it works and I’ll just load one cd at a time till I figure out how to get the whole book to play in order. lol.
