David777
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Any others here use SanDisk Sansa portable media players? If so how are you loading songs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SanDisk_portable_media_players
Unlike those that play their portable music with an iPhone or Android phone, since 2008 since I don't tend to carry my smartphone around outdoors, I've always used these smaller devices to play music. Over the last 15 years have bought 7 of which 3 still work. When I worked at midrange router engineering at a Cisco Systems campus during their Internet heydays, the corporate SanDisk headquarters where they designed these players was right across the street.
One thing I greatly disliked from the rise of iPhone smartphone portable music devices was the way early online music sites and applications like Windows Media Player, by default after one plugged such devices into a PC via USB, the software would automatically hunt through all one's computer system files hunting for various media extensions like jpg, mp4, mp3 in order to make listings to play. And would usually add from their own libraries album art, artist names and much more gleaned from exif metadata. Same thing connecting smartphones to various music sites that wanted to be a person's music source. Select one innocent looking web page button and all hell might break use on one's computer as such invasive software ran that was then often difficult to back out deleting.
Although the SanDisk Sansa products can do that automatically, a much better way to take control is by manually copying in all the mp3 files with Windows Explorer and manually creating Playlist files by understanding the simple M3U syntax to create the playlist text files. The 2 players I use recently began occasionally jumping out of tracks that was probably an internal flash memory issue. So today deleted all the folder music, audiobook, and playlist files that were about 2 gigabytes worth, then performed a device structural RESET, and reloaded all my files. I specifically don't load any of the Album Art. Both now seem to be working fine.
I particularly like the small size, high possible earphone volume, and how the software after turning the device Power off, upon powering back on, moves to where one had been. If one wants to restart at the beginning of the last Playlist being used, that is the first option shown. 95% of the time I am playing a Classic Rock playlist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SanDisk_portable_media_players
Unlike those that play their portable music with an iPhone or Android phone, since 2008 since I don't tend to carry my smartphone around outdoors, I've always used these smaller devices to play music. Over the last 15 years have bought 7 of which 3 still work. When I worked at midrange router engineering at a Cisco Systems campus during their Internet heydays, the corporate SanDisk headquarters where they designed these players was right across the street.
One thing I greatly disliked from the rise of iPhone smartphone portable music devices was the way early online music sites and applications like Windows Media Player, by default after one plugged such devices into a PC via USB, the software would automatically hunt through all one's computer system files hunting for various media extensions like jpg, mp4, mp3 in order to make listings to play. And would usually add from their own libraries album art, artist names and much more gleaned from exif metadata. Same thing connecting smartphones to various music sites that wanted to be a person's music source. Select one innocent looking web page button and all hell might break use on one's computer as such invasive software ran that was then often difficult to back out deleting.
Although the SanDisk Sansa products can do that automatically, a much better way to take control is by manually copying in all the mp3 files with Windows Explorer and manually creating Playlist files by understanding the simple M3U syntax to create the playlist text files. The 2 players I use recently began occasionally jumping out of tracks that was probably an internal flash memory issue. So today deleted all the folder music, audiobook, and playlist files that were about 2 gigabytes worth, then performed a device structural RESET, and reloaded all my files. I specifically don't load any of the Album Art. Both now seem to be working fine.
I particularly like the small size, high possible earphone volume, and how the software after turning the device Power off, upon powering back on, moves to where one had been. If one wants to restart at the beginning of the last Playlist being used, that is the first option shown. 95% of the time I am playing a Classic Rock playlist.
