@heartny I still have my Clip. A ton of people have stopped and told me their Sansa stories when they see it clipped on my pocket on a flight. They usually always say they bought refurbs from woot and enjoy hearing how I used to get nervous when my inventory on all Sansas dropped below 100,000 units on hand at any given time there.
I only bought 2 things from Woot ever (somewhere between 7 and 9 years), and regretted both purchases.
One of those 2 items was a Clip which I barely ever used.
(The other was a 4 port usb hub which needed to be plugged int an outlet, and disconnected frequently from wherever I used it, though it was not even worth my time to complain that this happened even upon first use.)
My phone does not have a clip. My phone is about 8x the size of my Sansa clip and weighs probably 15x as much. My Sansa clip will play music for about 14 hours on a charge. My phone cost 41x as much as my Sansa clip. Sansa clips can take a pretty amazing amount of abuse and keep on singing. I’d rather wear the Sansa clip when cleaning, gardening, washing the car, or working out. It’s lighter, smaller, attaches to any garment and stays put, and if something tragic happens it’s a relatively small financial setback.
@moondrake I disagree, i have had 2 Clips, used them riding my motorcycle, clips would break, battery lasted a few hours, at best, and now they wont hold a charge and they were prone to data corruption so i would have to wipe them out and move my music back to them, with my phone, i have several media sources, Amazon, Google Play music, Iheart, etc and i can use bluetooth or wireless, having a Nexus 6p, i dont have a problem with battery and only one device for all my needs. And why would you mention cell phone bills?? lol, who doesnt have a cell phone now?? and get unlimited data, even on my craziest months, I’m under 15Gb of data. good ritten to stupid clumsy, limited, wired devices!!! this is 2016, the 1990’s called, and they want their stupid devices back!
@sgtduckyboy Sad that you got two bad Sansas. I’ve only had one quit on me, I believe it got power surged. Another the power button quit for a while but I put it in a drawer for a while and it got better. I have three in service right now, each with different music for different type activities. I’ve never had a clip break, and I have smacked them around pretty good while doing physical labor with them on.
@thismyusername duh! wow, i can’t believe i couldn’t recall sansa from house of cards, how could i be such an idiot?
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yes, but thephone is big and clunky and the sansa is little and you don’t really feel it. Plus it doesn’t get email or phone calls during your private time.
@huja Short shorts? That reminded me of a song.
WARNING: Don’t listen. You may be humming this stupid song for days. It could get stuck in your head. It’s really dumb. Again, don’t listen.
I went years and years before I ever got a cell phone. In that time, I explored many different types of players that I could load songs and podcasts to for offline listening, including a CD player walkman that I burned files to.
It is great, but having to burn things to disc was a pain.
Slacker.com released a couple of players that you could download their stations to for offline listening. They were alright, but incredibly unstable, crashed all the time, and due to rights, the music selection was terrible. Plus, the company dropped all support for them after their users forked over $200+ for the devices twice. #bitter
Probably my second favorite devices I had was a small MP3 player from one of Best Buy’s previous internal brands, Insignia. That thing worked awesomely and was packed with features for the price. Unfortunately, it ended up breaking and they discontinued the model.
My step prior to buying a cell phone was a Samsung Galaxy Player. It was essentially a 5" Samsung Galaxy phone but without the cell phone radio. It worked great, but it’s outdated these days.
I also evidently bought a Sansa 2GB refurb at some point. I found it in a drawer, but I don’t remember much about that one.
My favorite MP3 player I ever bought was the Cowon S9. Great sound, packed with features, and amazing battery life. Cowon still makes players, and if I were to buy another today, it would be from them.
I say all this because I tend to hold on to stuff and when I dig through a drawer it’s like taking a trip back in time. I found many of these devices when I was looking through a drawer tonight and it brought back a lot of good memories.
TLDR: I’m a hoarder, I found a bunch of old things that play music in a drawer.
@Knightp D When my battle-worn Sansa Fuse finally died, I considered a Cowon, because they are one of the only companies still actively manufacturing/supporting MP3 players. However, not being compatible with Audible books was a deal-breaker.
@DrWorm I’m pretty sure Audible worked on my Cowon. You downloaded the Audible Manager program on your PC and then transferred it from there. The Cowon would remember position and such, which made it handy for podcasts as well. But maybe I’m remembering wrong. It looks like Audible still has the Audible Manager program, but it now requires you to download the Itunes Audible Downloader as well.
@lumpthar dial 5 for play, 2 for pause, 4 to rewind, 6 to fast forward, 8 to stop, 3 to skip to the next track, 1 for the previous one, # to shuffle*, and * to repeat*.
*-some features may not be available on all devices
@lumpthar Call the post office. You’ll get to listen to at least an hour of terrible elevator music before being interrupted by a customer service representative.
@lumpthar they never really advertised it, because, spies, but there was a reboot button hidden on the bottom of the old rotary dials
maxwell smart advanced that technology to the point where the rest button/device could be embedded into the sole of an ordinary business man’s shoe
of course we have to filter/sort fact from fiction and decide if pink floyd and dorothy were co-conspirators in a story of hurricanes and wizards
but today DDOS attacks are all the rage, even though the old timers are sitting back and thinking
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@lumpthar just call music on demand it’s a 900 number…
music on demand $3.99 for the first minute then $2.99 for each additional minute… minimum 5 minutes billed to your telephone bill. FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY
@f00l I don’t know, jazz quartets tend to be more of my favorite than trios… unless it’s just piano/bass/drums (Bill Evans sitting at the top of that list).
@f00l That choir is from no church ever. And they’re terrible at making a unified vowel sound. The guy in back is making a horrible “eee” when everyone else is singing “eh”. Now this is a church choir:
@daveinwarsh I still have that boombox! I was blasting the neighbors with it when I was painting my backyard shed. Still works pretty good even with the yellow paint splattered on it.
What phone?
@Barney the one that has the pokewhatnots in it.
Yes, but the Sansa clip is much cuter and you won’t be annoyed with text and phone calls and other distractions when using it.
@heartny I still have my Clip. A ton of people have stopped and told me their Sansa stories when they see it clipped on my pocket on a flight. They usually always say they bought refurbs from woot and enjoy hearing how I used to get nervous when my inventory on all Sansas dropped below 100,000 units on hand at any given time there.
@Jdub
I only bought 2 things from Woot ever (somewhere between 7 and 9 years), and regretted both purchases.
One of those 2 items was a Clip which I barely ever used.
(The other was a 4 port usb hub which needed to be plugged int an outlet, and disconnected frequently from wherever I used it, though it was not even worth my time to complain that this happened even upon first use.)
@PlacidPenguin Thanks for your 30 or so bucks! Hopefully you are finding more useful junk over here at meh
@Jdub
Not really. Meh hasn’t met my useless item needs. Slightly disappointed. I wanna talk to a buyer for Mediocre.
Oh wait… Nvm…
My phone does not have a clip. My phone is about 8x the size of my Sansa clip and weighs probably 15x as much. My Sansa clip will play music for about 14 hours on a charge. My phone cost 41x as much as my Sansa clip. Sansa clips can take a pretty amazing amount of abuse and keep on singing. I’d rather wear the Sansa clip when cleaning, gardening, washing the car, or working out. It’s lighter, smaller, attaches to any garment and stays put, and if something tragic happens it’s a relatively small financial setback.
@moondrake come on, get to the point
@moondrake And you don’t have to deal with cell phone service providers with a Sansa. Or phone bills. Yeah for that.
@moondrake amen… preach it bro’!
@moondrake Does your clip stream internet radio?
Drops phone.
/giphy mic drop
Pays for broken screen.
/giphy Sad
@moondrake I disagree, i have had 2 Clips, used them riding my motorcycle, clips would break, battery lasted a few hours, at best, and now they wont hold a charge and they were prone to data corruption so i would have to wipe them out and move my music back to them, with my phone, i have several media sources, Amazon, Google Play music, Iheart, etc and i can use bluetooth or wireless, having a Nexus 6p, i dont have a problem with battery and only one device for all my needs. And why would you mention cell phone bills?? lol, who doesnt have a cell phone now?? and get unlimited data, even on my craziest months, I’m under 15Gb of data. good ritten to stupid clumsy, limited, wired devices!!! this is 2016, the 1990’s called, and they want their stupid devices back!
@caffeine_dude Not interested in internet radio. When I choose to listen to music, I choose the music.
@sgtduckyboy Sad that you got two bad Sansas. I’ve only had one quit on me, I believe it got power surged. Another the power button quit for a while but I put it in a drawer for a while and it got better. I have three in service right now, each with different music for different type activities. I’ve never had a clip break, and I have smacked them around pretty good while doing physical labor with them on.
@moondrake I kid I have a few of the sansa 200. Just replaced a battery a month ago. Had RockBox on it but cleaned that off per wife’s request.
that’s racist
@Yoda_Daenerys are mehtizens a race? I thought we were a nationality.
@Yoda_Daenerys
@thismyusername
I thought it was a proposition.
/giphy preposition
@Yoda_Daenerys #triggered
I keep trying to find the name ‘Sansa’ on my phone and failing…
@brhfl isn’t she a character from a tv show, or recent movie or something like that? i can hear it in my head, but i cannot
placesee it@brhfl
@thismyusername What is that, the ‘delete your account’ of yesteryear?
@brhfl if it was time/canon specific it would be “never send me a raven again”… I think?
@thismyusername
Don’t lose that number.
@thismyusername duh! wow, i can’t believe i couldn’t recall sansa from house of cards, how could i be such an idiot?
@Yoda_Daenerys
@thismyusername Holy shit that was great! Would watch the series.
@thismyusername i’m kinda wunderin’ how Yoda can be worked into that plot
yes, but thephone is big and clunky and the sansa is little and you don’t really feel it. Plus it doesn’t get email or phone calls during your private time.
@cranky1950
@cranky1950 That’s what she said!
Sansa dosen’t have all that confusing shit to mess with.
What??
There are small devices that play music?
This boombox is getting kinda heavy.
@daveinwarsh I think the skull-and-crossbones decal on the side really sells it.
Decor: compliments of the '70s. Boombox: compliments of the '90s.
@PocketBrain
Human: compliments of the 1950’s.
/giphy 1950
@daveinwarsh wow, you are left handed, are you in a rock band?
@daveinwarsh Meh should bundle that boombox with a pair of rollerskates . . . and a pair of short shorts.
@huja
@huja Short shorts? That reminded me of a song.
WARNING: Don’t listen. You may be humming this stupid song for days. It could get stuck in your head. It’s really dumb. Again, don’t listen.
@daveinwarsh Don’t knock the boom box!
@daveinwarsh is that a dude or a gal sporting those roller skates?
@daveinwarsh ROLLER BOOGIE TJHE GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE!!!
@Yoda_Daenerys I dunno. A assumed it was a gal, but now I’m wondering too… Gal legs, guy hand?
Downside of a Sansa is you can’t roast marshmallows with it like a Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
@huja
Hint:
Firestarter
https://meh.com/
/giphy firestarter drew barrymore
I went years and years before I ever got a cell phone. In that time, I explored many different types of players that I could load songs and podcasts to for offline listening, including a CD player walkman that I burned files to.
It is great, but having to burn things to disc was a pain.
Slacker.com released a couple of players that you could download their stations to for offline listening. They were alright, but incredibly unstable, crashed all the time, and due to rights, the music selection was terrible. Plus, the company dropped all support for them after their users forked over $200+ for the devices twice. #bitter
Probably my second favorite devices I had was a small MP3 player from one of Best Buy’s previous internal brands, Insignia. That thing worked awesomely and was packed with features for the price. Unfortunately, it ended up breaking and they discontinued the model.
My step prior to buying a cell phone was a Samsung Galaxy Player. It was essentially a 5" Samsung Galaxy phone but without the cell phone radio. It worked great, but it’s outdated these days.
I also evidently bought a Sansa 2GB refurb at some point. I found it in a drawer, but I don’t remember much about that one.
My favorite MP3 player I ever bought was the Cowon S9. Great sound, packed with features, and amazing battery life. Cowon still makes players, and if I were to buy another today, it would be from them.
http://www.cowonglobal.com/product_wide/product_mp3_main.php
I say all this because I tend to hold on to stuff and when I dig through a drawer it’s like taking a trip back in time. I found many of these devices when I was looking through a drawer tonight and it brought back a lot of good memories.
TLDR: I’m a hoarder, I found a bunch of old things that play music in a drawer.
@Knightp D When my battle-worn Sansa Fuse finally died, I considered a Cowon, because they are one of the only companies still actively manufacturing/supporting MP3 players. However, not being compatible with Audible books was a deal-breaker.
@DrWorm
/youtube liz lemon that’s a deal breaker
@DrWorm I’m pretty sure Audible worked on my Cowon. You downloaded the Audible Manager program on your PC and then transferred it from there. The Cowon would remember position and such, which made it handy for podcasts as well. But maybe I’m remembering wrong. It looks like Audible still has the Audible Manager program, but it now requires you to download the Itunes Audible Downloader as well.
@Knightp
The audible download manager for iTunes and the audible manager/player for PC suck pretty hard. But they do work, if you must use them.
If you can show me where to push play, then maybe.
@lumpthar dial 5 for play, 2 for pause, 4 to rewind, 6 to fast forward, 8 to stop, 3 to skip to the next track, 1 for the previous one, # to shuffle*, and * to repeat*.
*-some features may not be available on all devices
@lumpthar Anyone old enough to have called Time and Temp? Sports score line? Yeah, I’m ancient.
@lumpthar Call the post office. You’ll get to listen to at least an hour of terrible elevator music before being interrupted by a customer service representative.
@huja POPCORN! That’s what we dialed! And there’d be the sound of popcorn popping, the the time and temp.
@lisaviolet
/youtube popcorn by Hot Buttered
@lumpthar they never really advertised it, because, spies, but there was a reboot button hidden on the bottom of the old rotary dials
maxwell smart advanced that technology to the point where the rest button/device could be embedded into the sole of an ordinary business man’s shoe
of course we have to filter/sort fact from fiction and decide if pink floyd and dorothy were co-conspirators in a story of hurricanes and wizards
but today DDOS attacks are all the rage, even though the old timers are sitting back and thinking
@compunaut i used to listen to that with my best man, but when we were 12, and he wasn’t my best man yet, if you catch my drift
@Yoda_Daenerys You’re talking in code
/image navajo code talkers
@compunaut i’m sorry, but if you want me to decipher my code you’ll have to make more explicit references.
in this whey i william no from wench two begn
@lumpthar just call music on demand it’s a 900 number…
music on demand $3.99 for the first minute then $2.99 for each additional minute… minimum 5 minutes billed to your telephone bill. FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY
@huja Every time the power went out, so I could reset the clocks.
I like this audio play device
/image orchestra
And this device
/image jazz trio
And more devices
/image church choir
/image gong
Some aren’t portable
/image carillon
/image waterfall
Some are mobile on their own terms
/image whale
Some are useful for mood and meditation
/image steel drums
/image Tibetan chimes
Some of them fit poorly in a pocket
/image Big Ben
Some are expensive
/image Rolling Stones concert
Some have minds of their own
/image canary
Some come with awards ceremony issues
/image Kanye
There are a lot of devices
@f00l I don’t know, jazz quartets tend to be more of my favorite than trios… unless it’s just piano/bass/drums (Bill Evans sitting at the top of that list).
@luvche21
That list is a bare scratch of possibilities, obviously. I just tried stuff that gave good images. Would have been fun to keep going.
If that’s your music, I hope you live in a city with good live clubs.
/image jazz quartet
That list was always way too N America/Europe-centric, but I often don’t know the proper words.
/image Musicians of Joujouka
/image sitar
@f00l Some would argue Kanye is more of a tool than a device.
@huja did you change names recently, or is that a secret?
@huja
Don’t talk that way!
True love (of something)!
Kayne and Kim were made for each other!
@f00l That choir is from no church ever. And they’re terrible at making a unified vowel sound. The guy in back is making a horrible “eee” when everyone else is singing “eh”. Now this is a church choir:
@SSteve
I can’t lip-read choirs. So I don’t know about that pix I put up - perhaps they were faking singing for a group pix?
I do “love” the singing of the choir at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge
"Once In Royal David’s City"
Here is a 34 minute Evensong
That doesn’t seem very practical. Playing music on the phone. There’s no headphone jack and the speaker is a little on the crappy side.
@lisaviolet but is it any worse than bluetooth?
Yeah because cellphone batteries last for weeks.
I still have my minidisc player & a stack of mini-CD’s.
I tried it out, works perfect!
This one (in black):
@daveinwarsh I have this one. It runs on a single AA battery. It’s fun to play around with.
@daveinwarsh I still have that boombox! I was blasting the neighbors with it when I was painting my backyard shed. Still works pretty good even with the yellow paint splattered on it.