SanDisk Clip Sport Plus Wearable MP3 Player - Black

SanDisk Clip Sport Plus 16 GB Wearable, Bluetooth MP3 Player - BlackThis is a review of the SanDisk Clip Sport Plus 16 GB Wearable, Bluetooth MP3 Player – Black.All items below apart from the Teac and Powerbank are from Amazon, I’m a customer and they weren’t free.I have tried and returned the ‘ HccToo Music Player, Portable 8GB Bluetooth MP3 Player and Lossless Sound 70 Hours Continued Playtime Expandable MicroSD Slot Support 64GB’ because of bad menu and Bluetooth connection. Also the ‘Kubik Ray+ Bluetooth 8GB MP3 Player’ due to battery failure after 2 months.I have used the SanDisk with Koss "PORTA PRO" Stereo phones 3.5mm jack (very good) and Bluetooth earbuds by SoundPEATS and Tao Tronics both now updated to newer versions. And aTeac HiFi with Bluetooth.The SanDisk weighs a smidge more than x4 one pound coins and has 14.7 Gb free for your music etc. There is no SD card slot for expanding this memory but if only for MP3 music then 3500-4000 tracks should fit on that. Boot up is 5 seconds. Shut down 2 seconds.It has a 2 year warranty through SanDisk. See their website. It comes pre-loaded with 3 music and 4 ebook tracks which can be deleted.Charge time from empty to full is under 3 hrs with the TeckNet USB Plug Wall Charger 36W 4 Port Universal Mains Charger with BLUETEK Smart Charging (£9.95) and Premium High Speed Micro USB Cable pack by Macro.Supplier, both on Amazon.Regarding low volume problems that some reviews have mentioned. At initial setup opt for rest of world not EU. Also go to Settings – System Settings – Volume – set at High (not Normal).The volume controls on the MP3s left side will allow volume fine tuning with 8 vertical bars each with 5 levels. So 0-40 is the total range. Very easy to use and always remains where last set.With volume set at top of bar 4 and used with my Bluetooth buds the battery lasts 7.5 Hrs. Lower the volume and it lasts longer. Wired connection depends on size of buds/headphones & volume used but expect around 20 hrs.Bluetooth setup was really easy and straight range is 28 foot, walls & ceilings reduce this. As you come back into range it reconnects but if left out of range for too long it will switch off but reconnects as soon as turned back on.The really good news is that it plays while charging and this includes charging from a battery powerbank. I’ve used a Lidl Silvercrest 500mAh (£7.99, 3 yr warranty). I’ve used it to fully recharge the SanDisk 40 times and not hit the halfway mark on the powerbank. So if used with wired earbuds you can have literally hundreds of hours of continual playback time away from the mains electric. The other tested players would not do this on Bluetooth and one not even on wired buds.Also when in Bluetooth connection you have full access to all menus and can make items such as ebooks invisible so you have less to scroll through.The Graphic Equalizer has 10 pre-sets and one custom with a 5 bar user set equalizer. I found the pre-set Normal gave the very best for all types of music.You can stay in one album playing tracks in order or shuffled or you can shuffle between all music and folders which means no two days are the same. I also have over 250 tracks in one folder, 30 in another and so on with no problems and shuffles all over the place. Never boring and you can always jump off a track to the next with the Bluetooth earbud control without touching the MP3 player.You can change backlit brightness and time it’s on to save battery.It even lets you have Bluetooth and wired connection at the same time for that annoying person who keeps asking what you are listening to.And you can listen to the Radio on Bluetooth by plugging in a 3.5mm Male Jack to Female Socket Extension Cable, anything 50cm to 1m long which then acts as the aerial in place of the wired earbuds which would just waste extra battery.You can also put music into specific folders. I just drag & drop the folders into the music folder. To play a specific folder don't go to the music option on the menu unless you want Shuffle all, Album or Artist etc. The folders (be it with 5 songs or hundreds) are found in the menu -Folder Menu and music the then the first choice, then just pick the folder you want. As long as you name the folder before you drag & drop they are all there to be seen and played as an individual folders. And you can add or delete a single track from any folder. It is really easy. So don't look on the music menu, look on the folder menu. You can even use shuffle in a single folder.So for a little extra then those cheaper ones, you get a good warranty from a top company and it’s a really nice little MP3 bluetooth player. I just remembered it has three user playlists that you can add to from music on the player should you want certain tracks in a particular order (the Gym, gardening, sex). It has other things but look at the photos and then go get one yourself.I would also add to the above that it has a Lithium-ion polymer battery which comes half charged. The Sandisk home page says the user should fully charge and fully discharge the battery a couple of times before starting to charge from any point in the cycle. This is to improve the life and capacity of the battery. You paid for it so you may as well start by looking after it.Update on the above MP3 player. 28/8/18 (13 months old) One side of the hinge has broken, I contacted SanDisk by email with the Amazon order number and under the 2 year warranty they have provided a free UPS return to them and I am waiting for the new one to arrive.10/9/18 They informed me by email that they now have it and I will update with the final outcome and my thoughts on the process.11/9/18 This email arrived. "We have verified your warranty return, the estimated ship date for your replacement will be 09/11/2018. You will be notified with tracking information once your product ships". Now, 2 months for a replacement is just plain stupid but it may be a standard email for all eventualities. I will see how long it really takes and update this reviewd14/9/18 MP3 player arrived. New and boxed with ear buds etc as it would be if ordered as new from any outlet.All in all, a rather good service.End of October 2020 and the clip hinge has broken again and so I will not be getting another of these. The fault is the hinge plastic is far to thin and the clip is far to wide which means if you press on a top corner rather than the middle then the forces on the opposite side of the hinge are to great and it snaps.I have now moved over to the orange and black MP3 player by Fitfort which is even smaller and lighter then the Sandisk and also takes 128 GB card without a problem and also plays Flac recorded music which the Sandisk does not play.I have three of these. One was from Amazon UK £25 a year and a half ago and still working fine. But I have just got two more from Amazon France £34 each which included express delivery. I don't speak or read French but when you log on they know who you are/where you are and the converted £ to Euro is shown so you know what your paying. All the Amazon boxes are in the same place and delivery was 3 days. And the fitfort sounds really nice to the point of saying it is better than the Sandisk. Works really well with Sony WH-1000Xm3 headphones in the gym.

Bought this at a very good price from Amazon Warehouse. I wanted an MP3 player I could use with bluetooth headphones for running. Had some problems initially because I happened to have saved my music files on iTunes in a format that was not supported by the device (Apple Lossless). Converted them on iTunes to MP3 and everything worked fine - easy to move tracks from iTunes to the Sandisc. Decent sound, plenty volume, very light, just fits into the back pocket of my running shorts.

I am very pleased with the SanDisk Clip Jam Sport Go, bearing in mind the cost. It appeared on my iMac desktop as a drive and it was a very straightforward process to drag all my MP3 music folders from the iMac into the music folder on the SanDisk. It was such a pleasure not to have to go through iTunes, and this was one if the reasons I bought the SanDisk in the first place. I disabled the volume limiter and was very pleased with the sound quality through a pair of Sennheiser headphones (again, bearing in mind the cost).When I saw the SanDisk Clip Sport Plus on offer two weeks later, I ordered one because it also had Bluetooth and I decided to give the Clip Sport Jam Go to a relative. However, when I tried the Sport Plus, for some reason the sound quality was not on a par with the Clip Sport Jam Go. There was noticeable distortion on several tracks (through the same headphones) which was not present at the same volume settings in the Clip Sport Jam Go. It was so noticeable that I kept the Clip Sport Jam Go and passed on the Sport Plus. I have absolutely no idea why that should be as I would have presumed that the electronics in the two of them would be identical, apart from the Bluetooth facility on the Sport Plus. Maybe I just got a ‘bad’ one.In addition, the Sport Jam Go had transparent peel-off protection on its screen and buttons when it arrived whereas the Sport Plus didn’t, and consequently had several marks on its screen out of the box. The larger screen on the Sport Plus is a benefit as is the limited degree of water resistance, but the better sound quality of the Sport Jam Go (for whatever reason) was the decider for me.

A fantastic device. However be aware that on first use it may seem a bit low volume, some reviewers have needlessly marked the Player down for this.... Believe me there is plenty of volume, you just need to unlock it in the system settings.After a few minutes playing with it I discovered in the System Settings something called "Replay Gain"... By default it is set to 4.5db but it can be increased up to 12db. It appears to be a kind of inbuilt amplifier. I have mine set to the maximum 12db and the effect on the volume control is massive, I can now listen to my Hard Rock in the gym with plenty of volume and rarely go over 75%....The accompanying (wired) earplugs are average but that was of no concern to me because I also bought some Bluetooth headphones to use specifically with this device.I find it incredibly liberating now that I can listen to music in the gym without a dangly wire getting in the way.I highly recommend this product.

bought this to replace another wireless MP3 player i had for sports. the sandisk player is good size and i prefer the buttons it has as opposed to a touch screen, but the buetooth is very poor when running.the connectivity drops regularly several times a minute when running distances.also the volume is set too low, even when you override the limiter.i was too late to return this product, but definitely would not recommend if you are using it for anything apart from sedantary listening.