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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
4.5 stars
"Excellent after tweaking settings"
Pros: Sound, downloading capabilities
Cons: Manual (or lack of a useful manual)
Summary: I bought my daughter and myself each one for Christmas. I was ready to return both to Best buy 2 days later, but after 4 episodes totalling 6 hours on the phone to Rhapsody Customer support -- in which FINALLY I was transferred to "level 2 support" (someone who said something other than "no problem, m'am, no problem, we will help you", and then accomplish nothing) a very helpful rep explained why the 2G memory was full on each when there was less than 200 songs on each device. Key point: reformat the whole device and make sure that while you are in "Rhapsody" mode, save all songs in 128 WMA files, otherwise the drive will be full with very few songs. I am very happy with the Rhapsody service, although if you signed up for the "free" 2 or 3 month offer, check your credit card -- I have been billed. Also, while you can play NetAudio books on the devices, if you switch to any music, you have to start over on the book. So don't plan on using the device for EBooks (in contrast to what Sandisk customer service told me prior to purchase). Manual is WEAK. Still can't figure out how to use the Auto-off feature, and haven't had the time to wait for customer service again. Yes, you can pre-set FM stations, but haven't been able to access the presets due to the weak manual.
Overall I would purchase again. I picked up a 2gig micro SD card on Buy.com for less than 20 bucks for later expansion -- had purchased the player for 99 bucks on Black Friday, so for 120 I can get 4 gigs.
On other thing: makes sense, if your memory is getting full you can't record much more than 1/2 hour on the FM recorder. If you want to record the whole "Prairie Home Companion", you'll need to empty out some songs.
Where to buy
SanDisk Sansa e250R Rhapsody (2GB):
$119.99
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