Clip Sport is an absolute piece of junk (compared to Clip +) - don't buy it!
I've had a Clip + for several years and it was great (the battery had gotten to where it would only hold about 1 hour charge, and that's the only reason I was getting a replacement). I could easily read the screen on my old Clip +, and the menu navigation made perfect sense. I had my mp3 music files arranged in folders (even hierarchical folders, such as 'pop' with '80s' '90s' and '2000s' subfolders - I could play them all by playing the top-level folder, or I could go into a sub-folder to play something more specific). This new Clip Sport will *only* let you select *a* folder, and play the mp3 files in that folder. This is a deal-breaker for the way I like to listen to music. I am hugely disappointed!
And navigating the menus has become brain-dead. In the Clip +, you could go into 'Music' and under music you could "play all", or go to "folders", etc. With the Clip Sport, "folders" is a completely separate thing from "music" (what? why? who did this?!?)
With the Clip +, the text on the screen was very easy to read. With the Clip Sport, the text is *tiny* and in white letters against a light blue background. Who came up with that bright idea! (I have to get reading glasses to even try to read it! I have no clue how a visually impaired person could read it!). You would think they'd use higher contrast text & background. And my mp3s don't have album covers with them, so why can't they use the whole large screen to display bigger text, when there is no picture? (they take up 90% of the screen with some 'blank' picture place holder).
And menu navigation seems brain-dead!. I'll be in a sub-menu, and want to go 'up' one level ... but the 'back arrow' button seems to always take me back up to top level. Aghhh! - How annoying!
Even though this Clip Sport supposedly has much longer battery life than the older Clip + model, I'm planning to send this Clip Sport back, and look for another Clip +.
And a small gripe - the Clip + had a mini-usb plug (which was very easy to plug in), but this new Clip Sport has a *micro* usb plug ... and in my opinion, they installed it "upside down". They didn't make the unit any thinner than the Clip + ... so why did they change it to micro usb?
On a personal note, whoever designed the Clip Sport should be fired! They had a perfectly designed unit in the Clip + to use as a starting place - they could have just changed the 'menu' button to the 'back arrow' button, and made the battery life longer. But no - they decided to change everything, and make it the most annoying mp3 player I've ever used (for what reason?!?)
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