Mac, it promptly appeared as an external drive - the Clip's 1" screen The Clip comes with a short USB cable when it was connected to my Luckily, I could have brought it back for a Mac-compatible the box listed system requirements as Windows XP2 and The interface lets you find tunes by album or artist as well as by songĪlthough I had seen a review of the Clip noting that it couldĬonnect to Macs, there was no indication on the packaging that it was As well, there's a Home button, a volume switch on the side,Īnd USB and headphone jacks. Is a small (2.2" by 1.4" by 0.5") device with a 1" square colourĭisplay and a round 4-position control pad with a select button in theĬentre. SanDisk holds the #2 spot in MP3 players, though its SanDisk is able produce flash memory music players and other flash RAMĭevices cheaply. (There are also 1 GBĪnd 2 GB Clip models available). The price of a comparably-sized iPod nano. I went shopping for a SanDisk SansaĬlip, and found a 4 GB model for about C$80 - a bit more than half Including SanDisk, Archos, and even Sony, can be used with non-WindowsĬomputers. SanDisk Sansa ClipĪs a result, at least some models of MP3 players from companies Making it more difficult, though not impossible, to work with them in (While many - though not all - iPods can be set to appear asĮxternal drives, Apple has hidden the Music and other media folders, On any of those systems - just drag music files to the Music folder, They can be used without requiring any additional software or drivers Varyingly as UMS or MSC these models, when connected, appear to be anĮxternal USB drive - on Windows, Linux, and Mac systems. Some other models, however, use a connection standard known To allow many (but not all) of these music players to work, at least to The open source XNJB can be used, however, I'm not aware of manufacturers of MTP players who include These models use a connection standard called MTP they requireĪdditional software installed to allow them to be recognized on Windows nothing pops up on your desktop there's no indication that you've Into your Mac - like Microsoft's Zune or any of Creative's many models That if you own a Mac and are shopping for a music player, you're Marketing their products to Mac owners - they've pretty much concluded Other MP3 player manufacturers don't exactly spend a lot of time None of Apple's models would fit my needs.
In fact, unless I was prepared to buy a secondhand iPod, The iPod nano (C$159-209) would do everything I wanted except fit in And I wanted him toīe able to tell what song was playing. Shuffle mode when he wanted it - and of being able to play specificĪlbums, artists, or songs when he wanted that too. But I wanted my friend to have the option of Way to randomly bring up tunes, like a radio station that only programs (C$55-$75) wasn't going to do the trick shuffle mode is a fun I wanted it to work with both Windows and I recently had a bit of a quandary - I wanted to send an MP3 player
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