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SanDisk Sansa c140 1 GB MP3 Player (Black)
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3 new or used available from $24.99
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Product Description
This affordable, compact, color screen MP3 player has an amazingly easy to use interface. It supports Microsoft's Playsforsure subscription music as well as other subscription stores. Extra features incluse a digital FM tuner with twenty station presets, FM on the fly recording as well as voice recording and photo thumbnail playback. The SanDisk Sansasupports all major audio file formats including Audible audio files.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #22019 in Consumer Electronics
- Color: Black
- Brand: SanDisk
- Model: SDMX5-1024-A18
- Released on: 2006-04-15
- Platform: Windows
- Format: CD
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 7.00" h x 2.00" w x 9.00" l, 1.00 pounds
- Hard Disk: 1GB
Features
- Sleek, ultra-thin digital audio/image player with 1 GB of flash memory
- Compatible with MP3, WMA, and WMA-DRM10 music files (PlaysForSure)
- FM tuner with record capability and voice recorder
- 1.2-inch color TFT LCD displays album art, photo thumbnails
- Single AAA battery provides up to 15 hours of continuous play
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description Enjoy skip-free music playback and photo slideshows with the amazingly small and lightweight SanDisk Sansa c140 flash memory digital audio player, which features 1 GB of storage and a 1.2-inch color screen. It offers MP3 and WMA playback and is also compatible with secure PlaysForSure files. It also includes a digital FM tuner (with record function) and a voice recorder (via built-in microphone).
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The SanDisk Sansa c140 digital audio player uses PlaysForSure technology. Look for the PlaysForSure logo if you're shopping for a portable music or video device and you want to make sure the digital music and video you purchase will play back on it every time. Match the PlaysForSure logo on a large selection of leading devices and online music stores. If you see the logo, you'll know your digital music will play for sure. Choose from a large number of digital music and video stores, including MTV's Urge, Rhapsody, Yahoo!, MSN Music, MusicMatch, MusicNow, Napster, Wal-Mart Music Downloads, and many more.
What's in the Box
SanDisk Sansa c140, lanyard, headphones, AAA battery, USB cable, QuickStart guide, and installation CD-ROM (with online user guide).
Customer Reviews
A great little player
The SanDisk Sansa c140 is much smaller and easier to carry than a CD/MP3 player, and that is a plus for traveling. Several reviews below gave a low rating to the player's sound fidelity, but it sounds clear and rich to me on voice or music. My main for purpose for using it is voice Podcasts. I have been using my player for about three weeks.
There are two volume levels in the Settings. The highest volume in the default or low setting is not very high. This means any background noise can easily overshadow what is playing. Changing to the higher level is a distinct help when walking along the street or listening on an airliner.
Several previous reviewers also complained about short battery life. The AAA alkaline battery that came with the unit gave out before its listed time, but it may have been weak from sitting on a shelf. The battery meter in the display does not give any reliable clue as to when the battery will fail. Always carry a spare battery with you, especially if you are using rechargeable batteries. Otherwise, it seems to be a great little unit and I am looking forward to getting a lot of use from it.
The player is easy to use without installing the factory software. As long as "MTP" shows on the screen when connected by cable to the computer, just drag and drop files. It does not matter if files are in a folder or not. The player finds and plays them in alphabetical order. If properly shut down, it remembers where you stopped and begins there the next time the player is used. It will even save your place during a reasonably quick battery change. When a battery fails, the player starts again at the beginning of the file playing when the battery failed.
The PDF manual on the software disc is far more detailed than the printed quick start guide and is worth reading soon after your purchase.
It is not difficult to navigate the menu, but a little practice makes use of the controls much easier. The FM radio feature is nice to have.
The voice recorder works well. Files are stored in the Record folder in the unit's memory. You are supposed to be able to play them on the player, but I had to move them to my computer first. The files appear with a WAV extension on the player, but appear on the computer as MP3 files. The microphone does not produce a loud recording and must be held close to the mouth, making it easy to get a lisp on the recording.
The player will not accept an external memory card, but with 1 GB of internal memory, it is large enough to hold an entire MP3 audio Bible.
Affordable but Sound Quality isn't up to par.
I bought the C140 solely for Rhapsody-to-Go music. It's cheap, ultra-portable and plays "to-go" music without any problems. In fact, the CD that comes with the C140 includes Rhapsody Jukebox software and required Windows Media Player 10. Set up was easy and navigation on the little tiny screen was fine (although graphics are not clear and appear in low-resolution). I wouldn't want to use it for viewing images which it is capable of. Having the FM is a plus. Everything was good until I listened to the music from Rhapsody. I used decent headphones, Sony MDR-V700. Unfortunately, the sound quality I was getting was not good enough. Volume was low so I had to crank it up high-and at a high volume level, there was too much distortion. Bass was boxy and mids and highs were tinny, fuzzy and weak. So I returned the C140 and purchased the Samsung YP-Z5. After using the Samsung, it was clear that it wasn't that the quality of the downloaded to-go music was bad-it was the quality of the c140. I never even had a had a chance to play higher bit-rate MP3/WMA files. Perhaps they'll sound better. But I still wouldn't recommend it since I found that there are better players out there (although they are more expensive).
OK if you ignore the FM abilities
I bought this player mainly for its FM recording abilities. I have an Ipod that i use for most everything in my library. So for under $100 i thought this would be great for what i needed. I was wrong. When the backlight turns off the sound on the FM is drown out by an annoying hum. This also travels over to recording. You can leave the backlight on all the time, but that will just eat power like no tommorow. Sadly disappointing becasue it seems this is the same on all this model not just the one I had. Dont by it for FM anything! Get a Creative Labs Zen Nano Plus like I did - cheaper & it works!
