http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/ Engadget Comments for More clues about SanDisk's 8GB Sansa http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/It's fully drag and drop compliant if you want it to be, or you can use MP10... switchable in the Sansa'a menu]]>Jul 11th 2006 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/
Does anyone know/have a size comparison between this and the nano? I couldnt find the dimensions on the sandisk website.]]>Jul 11th 2006 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/
Windows Media Player can it. WinAmp can upload too. Thou I found that most reliable way is to switch the device into Mass Storage mode. WMPlayer sucks overall and has bugs in track numbering while uploading (tracks get on player in random order). WinAmp has it's own portion of bugs - e.g. it can't convert unsipported characters in file names during

To date I have no single problem plainly copying tracks to device attached as USB mass storage. Sansa correctly recognizes all the tracks.

P.S. Contras of my Sansa e260. Doesn't have Unicode fonts - e.g. iPods display international names w/o problems. Doesn't support losless codecs, it does support *only* ordinary WMA and MP3. In other words MP3@320kbps is only way to get good quality. No WMA/Losless, no FLAC, no AAC, no OGG Vorbis. :-/]]>Jul 11th 2006 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/
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Now, being able to use a mac and drag my songs onto the Sansa and make my albums and everything, that's great. But would I be able to make playlists?]]>Jul 11th 2006 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/
Lets not forget the upgradable nature of the sensa also, it has a transflash slot on the side good for an extra gig of memory.]]>Jul 11th 2006 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/
The video playback says 15fps in the documentation, but someone on the Rockbox forums copied a converted DivX movie back over to his computer and found out it is actually 25fps QT movie. I think some formats convert to 15fps, so SanDisk stuck with the lowest to avoid false advertising.

Just one bug that I've found, sometimes it doesn't turn on. Simply hold the power button for 20 sec (I count out 25 to be safe), let go, then hit the power button again and it will turn on.

SanDisk also let me know that an FM transmitter and New Battery will be available sometime in July/August.

lol @ the scratched Nano pic.]]>Jul 11th 2006 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/

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What someone who owns a Mac didnt buy an ipod? Its true...

http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=944]]>Jul 11th 2006 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/
That's at least the case with the units sold over here in europe, but I guess it applies worldwide.]]>Jul 11th 2006 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/
There is also no "official" AC Adapter/charger for them. You have to either use a PC to charge the player, buy a "universal" charger on ebay from a shady character, or buy a powered USB hub.

There's no sleep timer.

Video encoding is a pig. Out of the box, the software will encode videos that weigh in at 10MB/min. If you tweak the control file, you can reduce that to 6MB.

If you want photos to display in landscape mode (most images), then you have to "pre-rotate" them with your desktop software before converting the images.

I like my e250, I really do, but I wouldn't shell out the big bucks for the higher capacity players.]]>Jul 11th 2006 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Jul 11th 2006 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/
http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/moto_capri/index.php?p=3130&g=connect&h=p1060482_clean

So this could end up with a total capacity of 10gb.]]>Jul 12th 2006 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/or am i old school enough to remember when computers couldnt handle 'large' hard drives, which required partitioning in 2gb portions... back in the windows 3.1 or windows 95 days...]]>Jul 12th 2006 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/
I did a lot of testing and seems to work just fine to me. But if you guys come across anything do let me know.

http://www.ridesforall.com/archit/sansaitunes/index.html

enjoy!!

- Archit]]>Jan 12th 2007 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/more-clues-about-sandisks-8gb-sansa/Apr 20th 2007 10:37PM