Customer Reviews

SanDisk Sansa c150 2 GB MP3 Player (Black)

5 star:		(19)
4 star:		(27)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(8)
1 star:		(13)

 

 

I have owned three other Sandisk MP3 players and had no problems with any of them. Some of the issues in other reviews here can be solved by reading the manual.

Simply set to MSC mode and the player acts just like a removeable hard drive when connected via USB. Very simple to transfer or delete songs etc.

The 2Gb is reasonably good capacity... in fact, great capacity considering the price. The FM radio works fine, although a little trickier to navigate than some older sandisk models. Color screen is good, although a little too small to be practicable to view photos on. The song title can also take a little too long to scroll fully.

I had no trouble with sound quality or crackling or clipping at start of song. Sound quality is fine! Battery life also seems good for me. I have even ran some el cheapo batteries with it and had good life up to the stated specs (although this depends on how much you press buttons and have the screen lit up).

Voice recorder is handy, although I find I don't use it too much, your mileage may vary though. As a basic MP3 player and radio, I find it hard to beat given the price tag. I have no issues with size of the unit. Sure its not as thin as an Ipod Nano, but it takes one AAA battery which you can get anywhere. No need to have a power point to recharge.

I think some people expect perfection for a budget price!

This is a player that does everything well but not spectacular. Some wma 64kbps songs skip while others don't. Same songs play fine in other players. Thumbnails of photos load very easily thanks to the included software. Amazon claims the screen is TFT. Well, that's news to me. Nowhere does SanDisk make this claim on the packaging or on the install CD. Comparisons to STN and TFT screens on other players lead me to believe that the screen is STN. Or maybe DSTN. No way is it TFT. This player is new and already being discounted heavily. You may want to wait for the right deal or splurge for the higher end Sansa E series which is a much better investment.

I like the styling and the sound of this device, but the implementation is seriously flawed. Battery life is abysmal - I took it on a flight to Seoul (12 hours) and chewed through 3 Duracells. One problem may be that the backlight turns on (seemingly at random) at the beginning of some songs, and there doesn't appear to be a way to turn this off. I'm on my second unit and it appears to be no better.

Audible functionality is also limited. It has no bookmark function (although it does remember your last place in a file). And the FF/Rew functionality is terrible - the file moves ~1 second per second of button press for the first 10 seconds, than advances at ~1 minute per second of button press. There's no way to easily back up 10 or so seconds in the event e.g. you miss a word.

And even though this device has been out for a while, Sundisk has no FW updates on their web site, making me wonder whether these problems will be fixed. My advice: look elsewhere until Sundisk takes some action.

I bought my c150 from JR Music World for 49.95 plus 6.95 shipping. Being an audiophile, I'm a little disappointed in the sound quality, not that it's bad, it just doesn't equal my iRiver T30 or my HP 5700 PDA for clarity, both of which cost more so the old adage, "you get what you pay for" applies here. I love the navigations on this unit; very easy to select songs, settings, FM radio. One thing to note is that right out of the box the unit is configured in the settings for "normal" volume range. I point this out because I think many who have bought this probably thought the audio level it puts out is too low. When selecting the "high" volume range, suddenly there is more than enough level for any situation. The earphones that come with the unit are good, but I have very sensitive ears (skin) which can not tolerate this type. After 20 minutes of these in my ears I'm in painful agony. I always end up using a different set of earphones like the Sennheiser CX300 which have a soft insert and great sound. Given the price, I think it deserves 4 stars.

I ordered this player and it was great for about a week and then it froze when I turned it on. The company that sells it, TIGERDIRECT, has not responded to my emails so I went directly to SanDisk. SanDisk gave me a promt response and sent me a label to return the product with free shiping. Another bad thing about this player is that it organizes your music in it's own way and has trouble figuring out artists even if you have the artists name on the song.

The most important thing about this unit is that the audio quality is medicore at best. The little unit just does not put out much power, and the bass tends to distort. Note that I am using the same headphones that I was with my last unit, and RCA (which broke), and the RCA sounded much better with more volume.

Second thing is the way this thing organizes the music. It goes strictly by the tags in the MP3 files. Don't even bother organizing your files into directories, as you cannot choose to play only one directory. This does give you a lot of power if you are the type of person who makes sure that the tags are organized in your collection. However, one of my favorite artists is sometimes listed as "Echoing Green, The" and in other places as "Echoing Green". So I cannot choose to shuffle their songs even though they are all in the same directory.

Also, this unit uses a power-hungry color LCD screen. I suppose this is useful for showing pictures, but this is a feature that I don't need. Because of this, the LCD goes blank after a few seconds. In order to even see what song is playing, you have to hit some buttons.

Finally, no type of arm band or belt clip was included in my package. The only thing that I got was a neck strap.

On the plus side, it does work, it gets decent battery life (if you leave the LCD off), holds 2G, and you should be able to find it for a decent price if you watch the sales.

San Disk C150. Stopped working in about 10 days(locks up after boot up screen), returned and received new one. Replacement stopped working in about 5 days. I am now going to replace it.
And yes,I went through the SAn Disk support first,but they told me to return it. On a good note I was pretty impressed with the promptness of the phone surport.

I ordered 2 of the Sansa c150 MP# players to give one as a gift. Mine has performed perfectly (other then the fact that the earplugs that come with it are too big to fit in ones ears). I forsaw this as a problem and ordered Koss earplugs to use and they are great. The gift c150 would not hold a charge and ran through batteries. I am awaiting my refund. Apparently it is hit or miss w/ this item because I read reviews that had similar issues.

i already own the m250 which is a great little unit in itself. this model is one step above it though. i purchased the e250 today but returned it. it's a beautiful piece of equipment, but there were several issues, one, the recording button can be pressed too easy by accident, two, it has an equalizer, but not customizable, three, it soulds good but the m250 & the c150(model being reviewed) sounded crisper & louder than the e250. i feel this model is the best for me. has all the great features of the m-model but with a color screen. i like the compactness of it over the e-model. also, i like the AAA battery rather than the rechargable battery. when it dies, you just pop in a new battery. the e-model needs to be recharged. hope this review helps. enjoy.

I purchased this player primarily for listening to books on tape. At the time of my purchase, it was one of the only players that was compatible with audible.com and allowed use of AAA batteries (needed for camping and extended travel). The battery life was disappointing as others have noted. Because I listen to books on tape, I have an accurate measure of battery life -- about 10 hours. Nevertheless, I would still recommend this product for those needing a player with replaceable batteries, as few alternatives exist. A second disappointment was the extremely slow fast forward speed for non-audible.com files. The FM tuner works OK for stronger local stations.