Sandisk Clip Sport?

This player is built and marketed toward a very specific niche market so some features were dropped. The microphone I believe, was one of them.

I don’t know of anybody really wanting to record their heavy breathing while running, or grunts of pain and exertion while working out in the gym. :stuck_out_tongue:

Well… The whole targeting thing…

128x128, longer battery life, 16GB - those are NOT sports-specific features.

So, unless there is also going to be a “non-sport sport”…

Anyway, I’m disappointed in that one.

@toehser wrote:

So, unless there is also going to be a “non-sport sport”…

 

 

There is. It’s called the Clip Zip.

@tapeworm wrote:


@toehser wrote:

So, unless there is also going to be a “non-sport sport”…

 

 


There is. It’s called the Clip Zip.

But, that’s without a 25-hour battery and improved screen . . . .

@miikerman wrote:


@tapeworm wrote:


@toehser wrote:

So, unless there is also going to be a “non-sport sport”…

 

 


There is. It’s called the Clip Zip.


But, that’s without a 25-hour battery and improved screen . . . .

True, but it remains a fine player, even 2 and a half years later. :wink:

@miikerman wrote:

But, that’s without a 25-hour battery and improved screen . . . .

But that’s without the alleged 25-hour battery and improved screen.

Fixed that for 'ya . . . and the screen is claimed to be larger, but not any bettter.

Time will tell. :wink:

@marvin_martian wrote:

True, but it remains a fine player, even 2 and a half years later. :wink:

Yep.  But could be and ahould be better and improved and modernized at this point, if only SanDisk would pay attention to it.   :frowning:

@tapeworm wrote:

Time will tell. :wink:

I prefer to be optimistic and non-cynical this week . . . .    :wink:

Long time sandisk user.  I am on my 3rd Fuze V1 and have had several of the Clips.  The earphone jack and clip on my wife’s clip broke so like some others, we went to Best Buy to get a new one.  She didn’t want an Ipod and we saw the Sport and bought two of the 8gb versions.  I have to say, that I am quite dissapointed in it after a week of use.  I rockboxed one of my old Fuzes so I could use it instead of the brand new Sport.  The biggest disappointment is the fact that the internal memory and the card slot are separate in the database.  It has frustrated my wife greatly.    I am thinking of putting it away till they come up with a firmware fix or a rockbox solution.  Seems to me, that if somebody can get the bin file for the sport, that rockbox would be a simple fix as they already have working ports on the clip+ and Zip, which this sport is based on.

@okiera29 wrote:

The biggest disappointment is the fact that the internal memory and the card slot are separate in the database.

This was by design in this model. Do you like the increased battery play time (25 hrs.)? It’s a trade-off. I believe this is (at least partially) how SanDisk was able to squeeze extra play time out of it, by not being able to switch automatically between internal and external memory locations. This is especially relevant when you when you consider it has the same size battery but also has a larger LCD screen.

You want complete integration bewtween the 2 memory locations? Buy a Clip+ or Zip.

Separting the internal and external memory has no impact on battery life.    The difference in battery life is them updating to a newer processor that is a little bit more power efficient than the somewhat older AMS chip in the Zip. 

@tapeworm wrote:


@miikerman wrote:

But, that’s without a 25-hour battery and improved screen . . . .


 

But that’s without the alleged 25-hour battery and improved screen.

 

Fixed that for 'ya . . . and the screen is claimed to be larger, but not any bettter.

 

Time will tell. :wink:

At the anythingbutipod.com forum, a new Clip Sport user reported that after playing an audiobook for 24 hours, the Sport showed that its battery was still 1/3rd charged. 

Time has told.   :wink:

@miikerman wrote:


@tapeworm wrote:


@miikerman wrote:

But, that’s without a 25-hour battery and improved screen . . . .


 

But that’s without the alleged 25-hour battery and improved screen.

 

Fixed that for 'ya . . . and the screen is claimed to be larger, but not any bettter.

 

Time will tell. :wink:


At the anythingbutipod.com forum, a new Clip Sport user reported that after playing an audiobook for 24 hours, the Sport showed that its battery was still 1/3rd charged. 

 

Time has told.   :wink:

To be fair, audiobooks are also very low bitrate files. With higher bitrate/quailty music files, I’m sure more battery willl be used.  That said, it is an encouraging sign.

Just got this thing home and I’m not seeing a lock function and no single button when held or just tapped will lock it. I listen to podcasts that are 1.5 to 2 hours long and an accidental bump results in some consternation. Does anyone know if I’m just missing it? If it doesn’t have a lock, it’s going back to best buy in the morning.

@marvin_martian wrote:

To be fair, audiobooks are also very low bitrate files. With higher bitrate/quailty music files, I’m sure more battery willl be used.  That said, it is an encouraging sign.

I guess it all depends on the audiobook bitrate, as well as the bitrate that one uses on other files.  In the end, though, indeed encouraging, where the battery is rated at 25 hours by the manufacturer and a first report ostensibly confirms better than that, in regular play use.  I’m sure that others will do their own testing and reporting, in all kinds of use.   

The screen isn’t better.  It’s larger and crappier.  I say crappier because the pixel density, which was quite substandard on the Clip Zip, is just as low now, several years later, when the standard has risen substantially for pixel density on displays.  It’s not even an LED type display anymore, it’s now an ordinary LCD screen.  If they could have feasibly stuck a 1" vacuum tube display in it, they most likely would have.  WTF SanDisk?

It’s basically the Clip Zip, minus some useful features, with slightly less intuitive interface.  But a bigger hard drive (which my computer won’t recognize)!!!

I went out of my way to gripe because, since the release of the Clip+, the most advanced, most perfect mp3 player ever created, the absolute pinnacle of media player technology in its time, SanDisk has, with each subsequent generation, listened to what the consumer loved about their device, and systematically removed those teatures from the next version.  Luckily, the Clip+ was SO amazing, even with the rate of degradation in 3 generations, the Clip Sport is still a great device.  It’s just tragic considering it could have been so much better.  Why SanDisk, Why?

Did any manage to get the device activated to play audible files? I had no luck in doing so. The device fails to be recognized by Audible Manager

@yamanoorsai wrote:

Did any manage to get the device activated to play audible files? I had no luck in doing so. The device fails to be recognized by Audible Manager

No need to double-post.  See my comment on your other post.

http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/SanDisk-Clip-Sport/Loading-Audible-files-on-to-Clip-sport/m-p/318215/highlight/false#M80

so, let’s summarize the differences between Clip Zip and Sport, please.

what is size of the Zip screen, btw (in pixels and inches)? What about screen type (Zip/Sport)?

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what kind of SoC does Sport have? AMS or some newer/different one? What about battery capacity in mAh (again, compared to Zip).

I hope Rockbox port (at 1st, unstable) will come pretty soon (with combined 1 database).

And last, any 1st reports on SOUND quality (compared to + and ZIp)? I think no one has mentioned it, yet.

@juhaz wrote:
 

I hope Rockbox port (at 1st, unstable) will come pretty soon (with combined 1 database).

Don’t count on it, at least anytime soon:  the Sport uses a different chip than the other Clips.  Although the chip is not unknown to the Rockbox devs, it complicates matters.  Who knows if a dev. might want to take the project on–might just instead say, if you want Rockbox on a Clip, get a Clip Zip or Clip+, both of which are similar (enough).