Anyone else have a Sansa?

[Brute]

So, I have a Sansa e20 and I love it. It holds 8mb of music, videos and pictures, which is plenty for me. I can also get the radio on it, with pretty good reception. I've had a couple of problems though. One is when I sync it, using Windows Media player, I sometimes end up with duplicates of songs. It seems like if I have a song on there already, and the file changed on the computer (picture, artist, rating, whatever) it doesn't recognize that it's the same song, and it just throws it on there like it's a totally different song. So, afterwards, I have go go and delete all the old ones off my mp3 player. This gets prety annoying sometimes. Is there some way to prevent this from happening other than updating my mp3 player manually?

Besides that, the only problem I've had with it is that sometimes the volume suddenly goes to the max between songs. I think this happens when I press something while it's switching songs. Anyway, it goes to the max and then doesn't go down. It usually totally catches me off guard and makes me rip the earphones out, and then I have to turn it off and back on to fix it. It's pretty rare though, so it's not much of a problem.
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[mcwkm]

I think you mean gb. I actually thought about picking up a sansa a few times but I never did. I do have an old sandisk mp3 player but I believe it was presansa line. They aren't bad players but mine always felt cheap.

[Brute]

Yea, 8GB is way better than 8MB. I also have a friend who has a Sansa and he likes his.
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[marinaroz]

My brother used to have a Sansa, I'm not sure which model, it was several years ago.

Anyway, that boy breaks anything electronic and the Sansa was no exception. He got the screen smashed in after several weeks of use. It still worked, the screen was smashed and didn't work, but the player itself did, if you could make sense of the menus without seeing what supposed to be on the screen... He used it for a long time in that condition.
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[Brute]

I hate when people don't take care of their electronics. It's a pet peeve of mine, actually. I hear about people dropped their stuff on the floor/in the toilet, having it in the bottom of their bag and dropping the bag on the floor. Whatever. It all bugs me. I make my electronics last many years. I still have electronics from when I was a kid, like my gameboy color and small handheld games like that.

The closest I ever really came to loosing an electronic was when I was wearing a hoodie with the pocket on the front, and I was using my mp3 player and it was in that pocket. I went and used the urinal, and it started to fall out but I caught it.

The friend I have with the Sansa has broken his since he got it for christmas. The wheel on the front that you use to move around through the menu and stuff doesn't work right anymore. Mine still looks brand new, except for one or two tiny scratches on the screen that are hard to notice.
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[yitzc]

I had a Sansa e140 with 1GB of memory, which I bought just under 4 years ago. At the time, it was very "revolutionary", with a very long batter life and an SD card slot, allowing for easy expanding of the built in memory.

It was, of course, black and white, and played mp3s and wma.

It lasted me up until last year, when I sold it to my younger brother (for 5$, but still...)

[ClickFanatic]

My sister has a Sansa c250. It simply broke down after a period of time (I don't know how long she had it), so I tried to fix it using a firmware update and even trying to install Rockbox.
But I think in the end it was the power supply that was broken.

I currently own a Meizu M6 Miniplayer with 4GB of storage. I have had to open it several times to fix some situations that most people would consider a 'bricked device'.
Just one month after the 1-year warranty expired, the hold-button snapped inside the plastic/metal housing while it was on hold. I had to open the case, push back the switch and glue it in place (the button could still put the switch on, but not off).
It worked again, but without the hold feature.

Then a few weeks later the screen started showing anomalies. In the end it only displayed shades of white. This time I thought I really messed something up with the firmware or eletrostatically fried one of the chips during the previous 'surgery.'
But when the usual firmware fixes didn't seem to work I had to open the device again, taking it apart completely. As it turned out, one tiny ribbon cable for the screen wasn't properly plugged in.

I still use the Miniplayer, but I must make something to store it in so I don't accidently max the volume when it's in my pocket.
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[linuxdoctor]

I have a Sansa Connect with 4GB of memory. It's also got wireless capability and runs Mono on top of Linux. Then, rather than create an open design, everything they did was to use Free/Open Source Software to create a device that is as restrictive and proprietary as possible.

First, the thing can play only MP3 music and MP4 videos. It cannot play Ogg or FLAC or anything else. The wireless capability is locked into Yahoo! Launchcast, a service that has been abandoned by Yahoo! It cannot lock into anything else except Launchcast.

Another stupid thing they did was to implement Microsoft's proprietary Media Transfer Protocol rather than something sane, like uPnP.

Also, they make it virtually impossible for people to hack into it with a special boot loader that will accept firmware upgrades only from authorised sources and they refuse to tell anyone how to load their own firmware.

Sansa has discontinued the product because of the Yahoo! fracas, but other than that its a nice little machine.

As mentioned above, the Sansa Connect runs Mono on top of Linux. They have released all the GPL software but they absolutely refuse to allow anyone to hack into it. I've sent off some email to support on this but so far, no answers.

I absolutely hate it when companies create software and firmware with the express purpose of denying people their right to hack into the machines they buy. You pay good money for these things and you own it. You have every right to do with it anything you want.

Its time to start fighting for a new human right: the Right to Hack!
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