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 enlarge | Brand: SanDisk
Category: CE
List Price: $79.99
Buy Refurbished: $11.33
You Save: $68.66 (86%)
New (7) from $14.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  882 reviews
Platform: Not Machine Specific
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Not Machine Specific
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 1.3 x 0.8 x 2.8
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: SDMX3-1024-A18
Model: SDMX3-1024-A18
UPC: 619659024659
EAN: 0840356735733
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great player--Here's how to organize folders easily May 14, 2006
36 out of 37 found this review helpful
Wonderful--put me in the category of finding this player great. Basically a no-brainer and intuitive menus. Two minutes after opening the box it was operational. Anything more look at the full manual in your CD or amazon digital locker. I have a notebook with windows media player 10 and it works flawlessly with this. I'd expect the same with the other compatible music services.
One thing I initially had a problem with was how to organize some of my files--for instance I have language CDs which are tagged inconsistently and wound up all over the place when I synched. Or you might simply want to rename or reorganize your files into groups. The other review with the how to didn't work for me so if you still need help and use Windows Media Player to synch here's all you do:
1. Open your Media Player and go to Library.
2. Create your list library as usual by placing music or files in middle column.
3. When your list is complete select all files you wish to organize or rename and right click. Select "Advanced Tag Editor".
4. Every track you selected will appear. Using a consistent organizing system go to "Artist Info" and name the Artist (1st Level), then go to "Track info" tab and name your Album (2nd level) with your title and track number. You can give it a Genre if you desire as well.
5. When completed start your sync. Sansa will recognize your system and will play files in the sequence you numbered your tracks.
Voila. You can batch tag some categories e.g., "Album" saving yourself some time if you have lots of files.
This is a great bargain for the money.
Between a Shuffle and a Sansa September 12, 2006
33 out of 33 found this review helpful
I had a weeklong experince with the IPOD shuffle - and was horribly dissapointed with it. The Shuffle is like a Yugo - while the Sansa - I guess is like a Toyota - great value with smooth performance.
Pros -
1) You get a 5 band user adjustable graphic equalizer - and there are presets too.
2) It can be set to connect as a mass storage device (in settings) and after that - simply use Windows Explorer to move songs in and out. It updates library automatically (within a second or two) after USB is disconnected and is then ready to play your tracks. What could be simpler?
3)Clear and sharp display - with plenty of pixels to display needed information. The display is backlit but the backlight seems to be disabled automatically when battery is low. Works for me! I see no need for a power guzzling color display in a device like this.
4) The headset was better than expected (surprise).
5) Great Radio (better than the Creative Zen) - it is set to Mono in Settings - but you continue to get good reception even after changing it to Stereo. I am really surprised at the quality of the radio - and it has 20 presets to boot - all very easy to program in.
6) Sandisk gives you a clear case and an armband - no need to buy one separately.
7) For a small device - the buttons are relatively easy to press.
8) Works as a flash storage device for moving files around.. no problem. And costs almost the same as one!
So darn easy to use - have not had to read the manual yet.
Sound quality is pretty good.
Cons - minor really
Battery cannot be charged inside the device (this would have been most convenient).
The "Sandisk" "Sansa" names are written vertically - the device is supposed to be used horizontally. The industrial designers at Sandisk weren't thinking.
I don't like its rounded profile at the back. I think a dinky box makes for a better looking and easier handling device.
Cannot delete songs directly on the device - only possible using Windows Explorer.
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Between a Yugo and a Toyota - what would you choose?
 Don't sell "reconditioned" items as "new" December 29, 2006
31 out of 34 found this review helpful
I had a very frustrating experience with this purchase, and I'm not sure who's at fault, Amazon or Sandisk. But I'm writing this as a cautionary tale for everyone who buys an MP3 player online.
First off, let me say that I think this is a neat little gadget -- a great design and a solid value. However, there were problems:
I ordered this item "new" from Amazon. In retrospect, it seems I was shipped a Sansa that had already been returned as defective. As I realized later, my original package didn't include several items I should have received (and did receive after returning the original one and complaining it was defective.) The items I didn't receive in my original shipment: earbud cushions, carrying case, and the user's manual (very, very frustrating, as I had to search online for instructions).
After using my Sansa for about 10 days, I discovered that my unit couldn't hold more than 10 MP3 files. Whenever I loaded more files, it locked up. I spent several hours reformatting the device, only to figure out on my own that it was defective. Again: very, very frustrating, and in retrospect it's obvious the device I purchased from Amazon as "new" had already been returned as defective, making all this all the more irritating. I can understand discovering that a used or reconditioned item I purchased turns out defective through an oversight. What I really object to is having to spend a lot of my time troubleshooting a device that, it turns out, has obviously been returned as defective by someone else.
To Amazon's credit, they shipped me a replacement Sansa after I complained, and didn't wait for me to return the defective one. The replacement unit works fine. However, I don't appreciate having to spend several hours troubleshooting a defective item without any compensation, other than receiving the working item I had already paid for. By purchasing a "new" item, I had already indicated I wasn't willing to gamble on a used or reconditioned device.
 Handy and Cost-Effective. July 1, 2006
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
I've been using my Sansa for about a year now, and considering the current price, I'd say it's well worth picking one up if you're new to the mp3-player game. While it's far from perfect, nor is it iPod-pretty, it's cheap and functional... if you don't mind tweaking it a bit.
Out of the box, the Sansa (not to mention every other Sandisk mp3 player I've used) has an ugly user interface, a lot of hard-to-find features, and one huge, truly infuriating flaw: it plays songs out of order. Even if you put mp3s in specific album folders, the Sansa will jumble up your personal playlists.
I'll start with the interface. Compared to the Nano, which has a nice backlit, multi-line colour screen, the Sansa offers you four lines with scrolling titles and artists. And the scroll is SLOOOOOWWWW. Consequently, if you're trying to figure out the name of the song, you end up staring at the screen for 20 seconds just waiting - there's no way of manually scrolling. The Sansa assumes that everyone listens to mp3s the same way - with uniform id3 tags. It would be so simple to give the user the option to scroll the filename, but no. You have to deal with an excess of information and chances are you'll walk into a tree or something.
If you want to do anything besides listen to mp3s - use the Sansa as a recorder, or listen to the radio - first you have to find those features. The interface is highly unintuitive and requires a lot of fiddling before you figure things out. That said, the tuner and recorder functions are nice to have on hand, though I use them rarely. One of the best things about the Sansa m200 series is the introduction of an effective equaliser, with a set of powerful presets - definitely appreciated.
The Sansa is also a voracious battery drainer compared to other mp3 players on the market. It takes a single AAA, but if you listen to it for any longer than fifteen minutes a day, you're going to be replacing your battery once a week.
As for the matter of mp3s playing out of order... There's a solution at hand. See, all Sandisk players (for some UNGODLY reason) store and sort files according to FILE DATE. Once you realise this, it's just a matter of downloading a freeware program like SetFileDate and modifying the timestamp on all the files you want to copy to your Sansa. Problem solved. It's a truly idiotic flaw - Sandisk should incorporate an automatic file-timestamp when files are copied onto its players, or simply adapt the device to play according to file structure - but in the meantime, manually changing the timestamp works just fine.
Once you've whipped the Sansa into shape, the positive aspects become more obvious. The exterior casing is well-designed, and I prefer the rounded shape to the iPod's flat-card appearance; there are no enforced DRM or file-type limitations that I've found so far; the sound quality is reasonably clean; and once you figure out the various settings, you actually end up having a lot more control over the player than your standard iPod.
One last criticism I will make... The headphone jack on Sandisk players wears out like clockwork after about a year. This is quite a common issue with a lot of smaller mp3 players on the market right now, but it seems to hit the Sansa with frustrating regularity. Try to avoid pulling your headphones out of the jack as much as possible and your player should live a lot longer.
Sansa Super for Simple User June 5, 2006
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
Several years ago I bought my son an Archos player. Last Christmas I got him a Video iPod. I knew both were too big and bulky for my needs. A few months ago I got an iPod Shuffle and loved it but there were three problems. One, the lack of any display, two, the controls were a bit small for my fingers and three, it can only charge off a USB port. I'm headed to Odessa, Ukraine later this week and won't have access to a computer's USB port so I wanted something that runs off good old-fashioned batteries. So I bought the Sansa m240 from Amazon while they were running the $[...] rebate. [...]
I've read the complaints of some of the reviewers and so let me say upfront that I don't need or ask much from a player. If I can load the songs that I want and then be able to listen to them, in sequence or shuffled, I'm happy. The Sansa lets me do exactly that. I spent last weekend loading my MP3 collection into Windows Media Player 10 on my XP SP2 Home machine and rating the songs to get 1 GB worth of music with 4 stars.
Today I connected my newly arrived Sansa m240, copied my four-star listing to the sync playlist in Windows Media Player and downloaded the music to the Sansa without a hitch. It couldn't be simpler. I set the Sansa playback to shuffle and life is good.
Someone commented on the lack of documentation but the user guide available on the mini-CD or from the Sandisk website seems more than adequate. I've also heard the arm band and case is a bit cheesy. Perhaps, but it does what I want it to do which is hold the Sansa on my arm (the iPod Shuffle lived at cord's length in my pants pocket).
Finally, someone complained about the size. Well I'm not sure if there's anything smaller than the iPod Shuffle and I don't consider the Sansa much bigger. Given the display and the ability to swap out an AAA battery on the road, I'll take the Sansa over the Shuffle anyday.
The Sansa m240 is perfect for my needs, which are to have my music on the road in a light package, be able to see what's playing to appease my occasional curiosity and be able to use easily replaceable batteries. That's why I give it 5 stars.
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