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Not what I wanted. It went from sort-of loud to mute with one click. Never could figure out how to store FM presets. I bought this one to replace the iRiver T10 that mysteriously stopped working last week. It was okay, but I sent it back the next day because I couldn't turn the sound down low enough. Looked easy to use, which is good because the instruction manual is at the "see spot run" level.
This MP3 rocks my son put it throught the washer and dryer 3 times before it died. I totally recomened it.
Will have to try either Lithium "AAA" batteries or NiMH rechargeables. The major drawback is that the instructions say 1 "AAA" size battery gets about 19 hours of playtime - NOT. Takes a while to format the play list. Most of the time I only get +4 hours of playtime playing a mix of MP3 & WMA files. Overall I like this player. Easy to load files onto it. I'm lucky to get a maximum of 8 hours of use from 1 "AAA" Size Alkaline battery using the FM radio, turning off the back lighting and keeping the volume 1/2 or less.
Next comes Year, on the Media Player you can find Release Date, that's Year 1999 maybe. Want to mix them up. The first is it uses 1 AAA battery that does last a long time. Go to Favorites and play just them. Next is Genre which is also found in Windows Media Player, you can call any group of songs anything you want in Genre. After Play All you can go to Artist and play just Beatles or just Hank Williams or just GoldFrapp, just the Artist you want now.
Go to Settings > Playback and turn Shuffle ON, pretty cool. With the IPod and other units that use internal batteries the music stops until after the ride is over. So I won't buy an MP3 Player that doesn't use changeable batteries.The other feature that I really enjoy is that you can put your songs into so many different catagories. An example is all the songs from 1968 to 1974 go in an Album called Hits.
Next is Songs which only plays one song. After that you can use Album. Next is Favorites which you can choose any 20 songs to play in Favorites. When a song is playing just push and hold the round button on the front center of the player. I use Energizer Rechargeable batteries.
I type Hits in the Media Player column for Album for every song 1968 to 1974, hundreds of songs. Then go to Genre and play your Really Stupid songs in that grouping. When I play that Album Those songs play, cool. All I have to do is change battery. Push that round button again and it's saved in Favorites. Push the >>] button on the front of the player and it goes into the Play Music part.
Fill in the year the song was originally released on each Song, when you use Year you can play just the songs released in that year. Rock & Roll, Dance, Christmas, Stupid, Really Stupid anything you like. When I ride my Bike E recumbent bicycle for more than 100 miles at a time, you sometimes need to change the battery in mid ride. When you hit the MENU Button, on the side of the player, Play Music, FM Radio, Recorder appear. I use my Windows Media Player to make up my own Albums.
But I bought it for the MP3 Player part with these features that I really like. There are features I haven't gotten into yet, Playlist, Spoken Word, Recordings.It has an FM Radio, Recorder and Stopwatch features also. The SanDisk Sansa m250 2GB MP3 Player has 2 great features. You have Play All - which plays all your songs in alphebetical order. The player asks if you want to save.
it's great.else don't look for help from Sandisk. The only support is via e-mail and the mail handler waited 3 days before it failed delivery. I have 2 of these and when they work they are great. but if you need information from Sandisk, don't waste you time. If it works.
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