Just to let you all know here, I have a sight impairment so going through countless menu structures just doesn’t do anything for me at all.

Let me ask you all a question ok? What do you think is the most important thing; going through countless menus just to find the song that you want to play, or just plopping in a card and having music instantly?

It seams like everybody has gone screen happy. We didn’t have all those screens when we listened to cassettes, or LPs. Many of today’s MP3 players are more complicated than what they really need to be. I don’t want to have to search through countless menus just to find the genre, album, artist, and then the song that I want to hear. Why should I jump through all those unnecessary hoops just to hear a song?

I think that simplicity is much better than all that complicated mumbo jumbo.

With both the sansa clip and the Sansa slot, there’s really no need to look at the screen to navigate either player because it can all be done through the buttons.

With the little vision that I do have, when it comes to using my Sansa Clip, I can see the picture representations of each of the items that the Sansa Clip is able to handle, such as voice recording, radio and music.

All of the Sansa line is pretty simple to use and doesn’t require all that Micky Mouse software just to transfer files to and from their players. Sansa has kept things rather simple. That’s the way that it should be. Nobody needs all that complication just to listen to music.

I will always be a dedicated Sansa customer. Oh, and here’s yet another thing that I need to let you guys know about. When it comes to all that bloated software that usually comes bundled with most players, such as the I-Pods, the software isn’t blind friendly.

Blind and visually impaired people who use computers use what are called screen readers. These are programs that read aloud the text that is on the screen. Most of the screen readers can’t read the text that is on the I-Tunes software because I-Tunes is too graphical in nature.

Also, the I-Pods themselves aren’t blind friendly either. That is why I love the Sansa line of products. They’re simple, easy to use and they’re blind friendly.

If I can drag and drop files onto a USB flash drive, then I can also use the Sansa products too because they offer that same functionality.

Oh, by the way, if anyone here has a Sansa Slot Radio, could you please email me a copy of the product’s instruction manual? You can send it to the email address here below.

dbrwn@aol.com

I want to read more on the product before purchasing.

If you haven’t yet purchased a slot radio, then by all means do so. You won’t regret it one bit. Remember, it’s simple, easy to use, and doesn’t require a computer to listen to the music, or to get the music. The sound quality is excellent, and it handles files with a bitrate of 320, which is actually above CD quality. Most people record their MP3 files at either 128, 192 bitrate or higher to get that CD quality sound.

If they come out with a holiday music card then watch out because I’m going to be the hit of the Christmas party!

You mention that the slot radio is capable of using both microSD and standard sized SD cards. The slotRadio that I reviewed can only accommodate microSD cards… Did you purchase a different model player?

I have some really good ear buds that I had purchased from Wal-Mart a while back, so I know that they’ll sound great on it when I get my new player.

What I don’t understand though, is why they didn’t put a button to go back to the previous song? I don’t know what’s up with that, but I do love the concept of buying music on SD cards.

The whole concept of this is to provide people with yet another way to get their music especially if they’re uncomfortable with ordering music online, or using complicated software just to load the music onto their player. I think thta it will go over quite well.

When I walked into my local Radio Shack, I asked them how many of these units were currently being sold, and at this time, they said that they had only sold 1 unit. If I were a Sandisk representative, I would stand outside the store, and try to get people in to listen, and I would talk about the player, and its benefits so that they would be sold.

The price tag of $99 is actually a great deal if you ask me. When you bundle that with 1 music card with 1000 songs on it, then you’re really getting a great deal. Here’s why.

The average CD costs at around $16 when you buy it in a music store. The average CD also has about 10 songs on it. Now at that price, you would pay $1600 for 100 CD’s.

Now that’s a lot of money for 1000 songs if you ask me, but since you’re only paying $39 for each individual card, I still think that it is a pretty darn good deal. If this really took off, I could see pre loaded cards with individual artists on then that would contain all their music. Just imagine having 1000 Elvis songs? Or what about 1000 Kiss songs, or even 1000 Rolling Stones Songs? Can you see where this is going?

So if I wewre you, I would go out today if you can and pick up one of these players and set yourself up with a whole boatload of music. This would be great for road trips, or playing music at parties and such, provided that ou have the right equipment to do so.

This is something that has been a long time in coming, and I can’t understand why they didn’t come out with this sooner. Not everyone wants a complicated I-Pod player that is bundled with commplicated software and has functions burried in countless menu structures.

Most people just want to hear the music, not navigate through complicated menu structures, or worry about using commplicated, bloated software just to load music onto their players. You can also use your own cards on this device as well.

One thing that I find interesting about this unit is its capability of handling both the micro SD and the standard sized SD cards, which you can purchase already pre loaded with music.

I also like the idea that it is rechargeable, which means no more buying countless supplies of batteries to power the unit. Plus the fact that it comes with a power cord means that you don’t have to always use the battery power when you don’t have to.

Connect the device to a home stereo system with a patch cable, and you have a non-stop music experience like you have never heard before.

Connect it to one of those I-pod docs with a line-in plug and play music at parties and other places where music may be required.

If you purchase an adaptor which allows for you to plug in a wall plug into a cigarette lighter, you can have countless hours of music while on those long extended road trips.

That is great for children, if your car has two cigarette lighter plugs inside it, one in the front and one in the back.

So as you can see here, there are all sorts of possibilities with this new player. So like I said earlier, if you can, go out today and grab you one of these. you won’t regret it one bit!

@Seb Yes, you can have different folders. That’s how I have my music separated. I have the artist and then under that folder, individual album folders. That said, I haven’t tried taking a bunch of individual songs and put them all in one folder to see if it keeps that grouping. I’ll try to remember to do that tonight and report back.