SanDisk Clip Jam 8GB MP3 player - Black

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Like previous Clip and Fuze products, the Clip+ retained a directly coupled headphone amplifier, allowing for highly accurate reproduction of bass frequencies and very low distortion on difficult-to-drive headphones. With it, a number of third-party accessories have been released, including hardware accessories mostly for the proprietary 30-pin IO port featured on the e200, c200, Connect, View, and Fuze players.

SanDisk has produced a number of flash memory-based digital audio and portable media players since 2005. However, aside from looks and a battery (similar to the Shuffle, the Clip Jam averaged about 20 hours in the CNET Labs battery test), they don't have much in common.

Our major concern initially was the FM radio mode, as these onboard radio options usually don’t sound great.

The Sansa Clip+ proved popular with audio enthusiasts and programmers because of its very low cost, excellent DAC, [ clarification needed] and relatively mature Rockbox port, the latter of which substantially improved battery life and added features such as parametric EQ, completely gapless playback and AAC audio playback. Larger capacity microSDHC cards up to 32GB are not supported by the original version 1 firmware, but can be used with alternative Rockbox firmware or on version 2 models. Make sure all files are in the same folder, refered to as “songs folder” (in the original system, e. The built-in clip that sturdily keeps it in place while on a run makes it comparable to the iPod Shuffle, which has a similar design.On a Linux/unix machine you should be able to cd to the directory where your mp3 are and do something like “ls *. The SanDisk Clip Jam is a wonderful, small MP3 player with a robust amount of features and a fantastic battery life.