Comments on: Sandisk Sansa http://blog.phenorbital.co.uk/2009/05/25/sandisk-sansa/ Blog of a graduate working in banking IT in London. Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bucko http://blog.phenorbital.co.uk/2009/05/25/sandisk-sansa/comment-page-1/#comment-89 bucko Tue, 26 May 2009 10:08:25 +0000 http://phenorbital.co.uk/?p=125#comment-89 I've a Sansa 8GB v2, and find it "acceptable" - it's almost indestructible (dropped on concrete a few times and even dragged behind my bike for a few metres and it only turned off), and battery life is great, but I have a few gripes: - No album shuffle; I have to emulate by "play all" albums, turn on shuffle, skip once, turn off shuffle. I've enough that that's roughly the same. - Every time I charge, it loses position: merely plugging into USB sometimes refreshes the library and /always/ drops the play state. - Lack of foreign character support; it just renders ? and renders it slow enough to lag the scrolling. - Lack of artist name grouping - I've got so much music that it's impossible to skip to, say, an artist beginning with 'L'. I’ve a Sansa 8GB v2, and find it “acceptable” – it’s almost indestructible (dropped on concrete a few times and even dragged behind my bike for a few metres and it only turned off), and battery life is great, but I have a few gripes:

- No album shuffle; I have to emulate by “play all” albums, turn on shuffle, skip once, turn off shuffle. I’ve enough that that’s roughly the same.

- Every time I charge, it loses position: merely plugging into USB sometimes refreshes the library and /always/ drops the play state.

- Lack of foreign character support; it just renders ? and renders it slow enough to lag the scrolling.

- Lack of artist name grouping – I’ve got so much music that it’s impossible to skip to, say, an artist beginning with ‘L’.

]]> By: Nathan http://blog.phenorbital.co.uk/2009/05/25/sandisk-sansa/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Nathan Mon, 25 May 2009 19:10:47 +0000 http://phenorbital.co.uk/?p=125#comment-88 I have an older Sansa 8GB, and it's pretty awesome. Even more so with Rockbox :) I have an older Sansa 8GB, and it’s pretty awesome. Even more so with Rockbox :)

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