SanDisk Clip Sport Plus Wearable MP3 Player - Red

Replacing a lost Sandisk Clip Sport - the new Plus offers bluetooth connectivity, which was easy to setup and use, and Audible Audiobooks (might have been on the old model, but didn't notice) - however make sure you configure downloads as HIGH QUALITY, otherwise it plays as mono (left ear only) through the Sandisk. Overall very happy - great value for money, and a good running companion

UPDATE 4 July 2020:In my initial review posted below, I was having nothing but trouble with my original MP3 player I purchased. I sent it back and requested a replacement. 6 months on with the replacement, it is working flawlessly - No problems whatsoever! Bluetooth works perfectly every time, the clip on the back hasn't broken and the device is easy to use.I'm very happy with my replacement - it's changed my opinion of this device 180!------------Original Review 20th January 2020------------As a veteran of Sandisks MP3 Players, I've previously owned the Clip Jam and Clip Sport and they were both very sturdy and very good players and lasted many, many years before being replaced. Sadly the newest generation, the Clip Sport Plus falls far short of my expectations.Start with the plus side first:- Standard Clip Sport look-and-feel to it and colourful.- Lightweight, small and unobtrusive.- Waterproof, rugged and shockproof. Great for sports and outdoor activities.- Choice of Bluetooth or 3.5mm jack for listening with.- Easy to transfer MP3 files from PC to MP3 player. Just navigate with Explorer and you're done. No special software needed here!Cons:- Marginally larger/ chunkier than the former Clip Sport. I recon this is due to it now being waterproof and more rugged for outdoor use. The connection ports have little covers to protect them from the elements.- Bluetooth! Bluetooth worked well the first few weeks, pairing to my earphones, car, phone flawlessly. Then suddenly it didn't want to know. Didn't want to connect. Tried resetting it, restart, updating firmware etc but to no avail.- The Clip on the back broke in the first week. My former Sandisk Sport and Jam both had clips, and both worked perfectly up until the end of their life and they were used on a very regular basis.- Buttons are harder to press. Recon this is due to the ruggedness and waterproof-ness of this new MP3 player.- Volume Restrictions. A lot of reviews complain about low volume. You can easily bypass this when you initially select your Region during setup. **DO NOT SELECT EUROPE!** Choose a different continent and you'll get full volume. The volume restriction is down to EU regulations, not SanDisk.In summary, I'm genuinely disappointed with Sandisks latest offering of their Clip Sport Mp3 player. Initially it's a great little thing, but the BT stopped working which was the reason I bought this MP3 player in the first place, so I could play my music through my wireless earbuds.Only after a mere 3 weeks, I've returned the MP3 player to Amazon for a replacement, and *touchwood* this new one might work better than the last one this time round. I'm willing to give Sandisk the benefit of the doubt but if this one also fails to work properly, it too will also go back for a refund and get a different brand of MP3 player all together.Time will tell.5/10

So I have only had this for six weeks, possibly not even that many. I normally write quite extensive reviews on Amazon but I feel like the headlines are quite straightforward on this one.- I've not owned many mp3 players because I only upgrade when they break. This one I have found the battery life gets worse the fuller it is, something I have found with all the Sansa mp3 players I've used but not other brands. Perfectly happy to be corrected on that one if it's just a fact of life for portable music that's not on your phone.- I've had no issues with the volume. I've never put it approaching maximum in my time using it (and rarely have with any other).- The preset EQs are terrible, you're definitely going to want to use the custom one.Two key flaws with it:- Today, while just sat in my bag on its own, in the space of an hour since I last used it, it crashed. Crashed so badly I thought it was permanently broken and was about to write to the seller demanding a refund. After a soft reset it appears to be okay. So far. My last Sansa crashed intermittently just from day-to-day use, eventually corrupted several gigs of its memory, before then just dying permanently with no reset hard enough to fix it. It took years for it to get to that point, but I'm not filled with faith.- The much larger issue for me is that there is an unlistenable amount of trash noise distortion at a low level if you use any headphones except the ones purchased with it. This isn't an issue of headphone quality either, as I tried it with my mid-range Goldrings that I use for recording and it was present there also. The ONLY headphones that don't cause this problem are the ones that came with the thing, which are not especially comfortable and have a pretty short cable, especially considering it's meant to be an mp3 player for sporty people (not me). I thought at first it was just an issue with the item I had, but a quick Google found that this is apparently a factory issue (maybe not with all of them given a brief trawl of the reviews on here doesn't raise a mention). Now please believe that I am not an audio snob; I listen to very low bit-rate mp3s to maximise the storage space, and the article I found about the mp3 player accurately described this distortion as 'obvious to anyone with ears.' At present, the headphones are still working and we're fine, but given the average lifespan of out-of-the-box earphones, I suspect I'll be needing to buy a whole new mp3 player when these buds eventually give out.I really liked the last Sansa I had even when it was starting to act up, but regardless of any extra features like a clip for your belt or displaying the album art when you're playing music, it seems to me like actually being able to play music without ruining it is a pretty shocking feature to be lacking in this device.

Brilliant little MP3 player almost as good as my old Ipod nano but with more storage, good tone, clear sound very, compact and considerably cheaper, no reason not to recommend this item. Very easy to drag and drop tunes from my ITunes library into the SanDisk music folder, gotta love easy tech for us oldies.

Just not loud enough. Very disappointing. Extremely annoying to have to set "allow high volume" every single time it turns itself off. To then, even at full volume, struggle to hear music over background noise, is extremely vexing.Tough, but a complete waste of money.Went back to buying the cheap Chinese rubbish and that was even a worse mistake.After writing this I had a moan to Sandisk.. It turns out that due to EU interference, volume level is set by region...So, in settings, go to factory reset (all songs downloaded will remain) press reset then change "region" to "rest of the world".. then in settings change Volume from Normal to High...This makes me so very happy... :) Thank you Sandisk :)