SanDisk® Clip Sport

[billparker82]

I ended up just throwing mine out.  I keep reading the excuses, that somehow this is not actually Sandisk's fault, that it's a problem with the hardware limitations.  Mmm Hmm.  I'm the plant engineer at a manufacturing facility.  I deal with industrial hardware, firmware, and software limitations all day long.  My job is to find the work-around.  There's ALWAYS a work-around.  And Sandisk can't figure out how to create a database with more than 2000 entries, and artist, song, and album titles need to be truncated to 12 characters when there are 8 BILLION bytes of memory?  Not buying that story.  There's ALWAYS a work-around.

[bhutchin]

So true, but if the work-around minimizes revenues, it will never get worked-around! They can always sell you the next model up.

[Miikerman]

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@bhutchin wrote:

So true, but if the work-around minimizes revenues, it will never get worked-around! They can always sell you the next model up.

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Unfortunately, the next model "up" here is back, to the Clip Zip or Clip+ . . . .

[drlucky]

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@billparker82 wrote:

be truncated to 12 characters when there are 8 BILLION bytes of memory?  Not buying that story.  There's ALWAYS a work-around.

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8 BILLION bytes is NAND storage not DRAM. the thing that is limiting this player is the very limited amount of DRAM in the controller. 

[billparker82]

Should make no difference.  Flash memory does have a slow write time but read times are fast.  Memory is still memory.  Once songs are transferred the player should be in essentially a static state with the only change being current song played.  The files and database don't need to change unless another transfer occurs.

[shaunj]

What gives? No further discussion. I received one of these from Amazon in the post yesterday and was immediately unhappy with the fact I can only play one album at a time and finding out that there is no rockbox port.

I loved my SanDisk Clip Zip and have only stopped using it after 8 years of faithful service because the headphone jack is damaged and music cuts out randomly, moving the jack around doesn't make much difference for long.

Any suggestions?