Sandisk Clip Sport Go and Audiobooks

USELESS AT PLAYING AUDIOBOOKS

Chapter mode is missing:
Imagine a folder full of files, each one a numbered track (or chapter) in your book. You would expect an MP3 player to get to the end of a chapter and then play the next one, wouldn't you? Earlier models of Sandisk players possesed this function. For some unaccountable reason it's gone! Sandisk have removed the function. The audiobook player needs every chapter to be started manually. Why do this? It makes no sense!

MP3 File compatability:
Best described as brittle or flaky. Be prepared for nearly identical MP3 files to either play without a problem, or throw up an utterly unexpected file type incompatability error messga. There are clearly some forms of MP3 file that are not recognised. Why would you make a device this way. Earlier Sandusk models didn't have this problem. It makes no sense. It's as though unnecessary changes have been introduced.

Equaliser function:
In theory, it is possible to use this to adjust the bass/treble. In practice, there seems to be a bass boost as part of the firmware and you can TRY adjusting the sound quality, but it won't get you anywhere. A strong bass response is not useful, when listening to speech and a hindrance, if you have a hearing loss.

Conclusion:
In theory, you can use the Sandisk Clip Spirt Go to listen to audiobooks, in practice, it has so many obstacles in the way that you would need a lot of patience. With file compatability, chapter playback and sound quaility all issues, you would be better off looking elsewhere. A good question to ask is where else you might look ...and that's anither issue entirely!

SanDisk Bluetooth mistake (Clip Sport Plus)

SANDISK's BLUETOOTH BANANA SKIN!

I'm publishing this because, the last I knew, SanDisk had done a very strange thing indeed. If you go looking for the full technical description of the SanDisk Clip Sport Plus, you'll find one technical detail manifestly missing (at least at the time of me writing this). Try as you might, you won't turn up what version Bluetooth is being used, as a transmitter, on this MP3 player.

I suppose if I'd dropped the ball in quite the way that SanDisk has, I might try to keep it quiet. It's true that the company can legitimately claim to have included Bluetooth functionality in this MP3 player, but its version 2. So, anything you are thinking of pairing it with had better be extremely backward compatible (or so old that it's not much short of a miracle that it still working)!

It's puzzling that such an old and useless version of Bluetooth should have been baked into one of their more recent devices and I suspect you wouldn't get any sense out of them, if you ever tried to ask them why on earth they decided to use such an ancient version of  Bluetooth.

My sole reason for publishing this posting was to make potential customers aware of what they could be buying  and the likelihood of them having the hassle of returning the product, once they discover that the damn thing won't work with much that is current technology.  It's not the first time that SanDisk have screwed things up quite so badly. I was one of the unfortunate individuals who bought the earlier model of Clip Sport, when it first came out. I discovered, somewhat latterly, that this had a reputation for locking up for no apparently good reason. Fully aware of this design flaw, SanDisk (nonetheless) carried on selling the product.