ebuyer has the Sandisk Silver 1GB MP3 Player with FM Radio and voice recording for $112.06 after rebate, $5 shipping.
$30 rebate Exp 12/25/04
$30 rebate Exp 12/25/04
Sandisk 1GB MP3 player $112
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OP, it would be nice if you pointed out that is the price after rebate in the title. You could save people a lot of time for those who don't care to deal with rebates.
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Linked (may not work?)
Link #2 (Choose your country in lower-left side of page if link not working)
Price dropped ~ $1 today, now:
$141
+ 3 S/H (YMMV)
- 30 REBATE
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$ 114 delivered, AR.
Only 5 remaining!... Deal almost dead. You can also get it @ Buy.com, $120 AR.
EDIT: Ignore that, they restocked, plenty of 'em now.
Link #2 (Choose your country in lower-left side of page if link not working)
Price dropped ~ $1 today, now:
$141
+ 3 S/H (YMMV)
- 30 REBATE
---------------
$ 114 delivered, AR.
Only 5 remaining!... Deal almost dead. You can also get it @ Buy.com, $120 AR.
EDIT: Ignore that, they restocked, plenty of 'em now.
great price. Im going to buy one and replace with the muvo tx. 256mb is really not enough these days.
OP, it's been about six hours since I told you about the problem with your thread title and you STILL haven't fixed it.
I'd stay away from SanDisk MP3 players. I picked up the Cruzer Micro MP3 Companion off of Amazon about a month and a half ago and the thing has been nothing but trouble. Complete crap. Freezes constantly (with increasing frequency, freezes about every 30 minutes or so now) and teh battery cover won't stay on (too loose after a month's use) without some kind of external force, making the device completely inoperable by itself.
The sandisk 1gb is nice. The FM reception is good. The manual isn't good, but if you like exploring, you can figure everything out after a few hours of real use.
I just got one of these. Pretty no frills but works for me just fine.
2 questions
1. Is there some way to improve the FM reception? clearly there is no antenna and I can't get diddly.
2. Speaking of crappy manual... Is there some sort of shuffle play? Or at least some way to play tunes other than picking one and going one by one through the list? No playlists is a pain.
2 questions
1. Is there some way to improve the FM reception? clearly there is no antenna and I can't get diddly.
2. Speaking of crappy manual... Is there some sort of shuffle play? Or at least some way to play tunes other than picking one and going one by one through the list? No playlists is a pain.
I ordered one of these from buy.com for my cousin. It looks pretty cool. I think it was 139 plus 20 MIR on it, free shipping.
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This is supposed to be a shuffle mode, or you can use Musicmatch to create playlists. I can't help in navigating to the shuffle mode setting as mine hasn't arrived yet.
As for the FM there isnt' much you can do except try a different station or stand on a rooftop. If it makes use of the headphone cord for an antenna you could try adding an extension cord but that kinda defeats the purpose of a very small portable MP3 player if a bundle of cord is needed.
I thought I had read a review on these players that said the FM reception was pretty good. Anyhow, for players that small, the antenna pretty much has to be the headphone cord. The orientation of the cord can make a significant difference in reception in my experience (i.e. bunching up the cord vs. having the cord mostly straightened out can affect reception). But I'm speaking from my experience with a different mp3 player. I haven't tested the Sandisk one since it's not exactly good form to cut open the packaging before you give it away as a present...
EDIT: stupid grammar mistake corrected.
Answers.
1. Push in (not 'down' direction) the joystick for 2 seconds to get into the Config Menu. FM reception is under menu 3, which has tabs for FM Sense. I haven't tested to see if it has any effect.
2. There isn't a shuffle mode, at least not that I'm aware of.
I found out that there's a A -> B loop function. It's probably not very useful, but for people who want to repeat just one portion of an audio file then it might be useful.
Depending on which mode you're in, just pressing and holding down a button you can get to config menus for certain areas. For example, holding down the A->B button in 'audio play' mode will let you pick the EQ setting, one of which is fully user configurable. Then there is also a more detailed repeat settings, though no shuffle mode.
Exploring is definitely the best way to make the most of this device, or read the manual which is online.
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This is why MP3 player is good... drowns out surroundings
Sandisk FAQ
User Guide
Driver (Needed only for Win98SE)
Menus (incl. shuffle mode)
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I think I read a similar review(s) claiming good FM reception, though it might've meant good relative to MP3 players (or who-knows-what), the odds are low that any headphone-antenna based mobile tuner can match a home stereo (or even anything with better antenna ignoring the sensitivity).
on the san disk and freezing up
do not fill the san disk to 100% capacity or it will freeze.
there is some finite point where it will stop freezing once you free up x space.
say about 40megs
so even though you sacrifce that space..
you get back a working version.
if you filled it to max.. just remeber it's a mini computer.. with requirements.
it needs hd space (it's flash space) to act asa kind of virtual ram.
if u fill it all up.. its basically getting a out of mem error.
i read this recently.. so if it helps great.. let me know.
do not fill the san disk to 100% capacity or it will freeze.
there is some finite point where it will stop freezing once you free up x space.
say about 40megs
so even though you sacrifce that space..
you get back a working version.
if you filled it to max.. just remeber it's a mini computer.. with requirements.
it needs hd space (it's flash space) to act asa kind of virtual ram.
if u fill it all up.. its basically getting a out of mem error.
i read this recently.. so if it helps great.. let me know.
cool. thanks for the links. i found the shuffle mode. it's a nice device. lots of mode and features which are not initially listed or in the cheap printed user manual.
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jfnz24, please link it?
That would be a better deal since it's a couple dollars cheaper and smaller rebate. Upon rechecking my prior buy.com link it still shows up as $120 AR.
That would be a better deal since it's a couple dollars cheaper and smaller rebate. Upon rechecking my prior buy.com link it still shows up as $120 AR.
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