Sandisk Sansa C250 Player Black
The Sansa c200 Series MP3 players are the latest in SanDisk’s audio line. Created by the leaders in flash memory, this flash-based player provides everything you need to play music, get enjoyment from photos, and FM radio – in vibrant color!
- Amazon Sales Rank: #17325 in Network Media Player
- Color: Black
- Brand: SanDisk
- Model: SDMX7-2048-A18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 2.80″ h x 3.62″ w x .71″ l, .55 pounds
- It provides you with everything you need to play your bestloved music, take delight in your best photos, and listen to your preferent FM radio stations
- Able to play MP3, WMA, WAV, and protected WMA DRM music files, and supports JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, and GIF as import media types
- Screen may exhibit up to 64,000 colors, lets you choose to display album cover art for the current song by way of ID3 tag support or photo thumbnails
- 2 gigabytes of built-in flash memory allows you to store up to 1,000 songs, MicroSD cards efficaciously elaborates your memory capacity infinitely
- Comes in a stylish black, with earphones, a USB cable, and a rechargeable and removable lithium-ion battery
The latest in SanDisk’s audio line, the Sansa c250 2GB MP3 Player provides everything you need to play music, receive pleasure from photos, and listen to FM radio. This lowpriced device likewise includes a bright color screen, on-the-fly voice and radio recording, a microSD slot for memory expansion, and an intuitive, easy-to-use interface.
The Sansa c240 may hold 16 hours of CD-quality MP3 tracks on it is 1 GB memory. |
Easily transfer music to your device in Windows.
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Import various effigy formats to your device. |
Full-Featured MP3 Player
The SanDisk Sansa c250 will play MP3, WMA, WAV, and protected WMA DRM (digital rights management) music files. Enjoy the album art on the compact color screen, along with track data thru ID3 tag support. The Sansa c250 MP3 player has two gigabytes of built-in flash memory, which allows you to store up to 500 songs (32 hours of playback) in 128 kpbs MP3 format, or up to 1,000 songs (64 hours of playback) in 64 kbps WMA format. Additional capacity may be added by way of the microSD slot. It also supports subscription music stores, for easy buy and downloading of new music to your player. Finally, you may adjust the sound to your preference using the digital equalizer’s five presets: normal, rock, jazz, classic, pop, and one customizable user setting.
Take Your Photos With You
Use the c250′s color screen to share slideshows of photo thumbnails with your friends. The device supports JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, and GIF files, which are effortlessly converted using the included Sansa Media Converter software.
Portable FM Radio
Enjoy programming in a more established way with the built-in digital FM radio. Keep your favored stations stored in the twenty programmable presets, and cycle amidst them with ease. Record FM radio on the fly, saving your favored programs for later.
Voice Recording
Have a thought you need to get down before it evades you? Use the built-in microphone to record voice memos. Capture interviews, classes, presentations, short notes to yourself, or anything else you might feel inspired to record for later listening.
Easy Transfer
The c250 uses a high-speed USB 2.0 connection for fast file transfers from your computer. Once connected to your computer, the device is detected by your operating system and appears as further and added drive. Simply drag and drop your music files to the device and you’re ready to go. Alternately, you may use Windows Media Player or other music software to manage your files. Requires Windows XP and Windows Media Player 10 or later.
Time to Play
The included rechargeable lithium-ion battery allows for hours of music before necessitating a recharge, and is removable–buy a spare for a long road trip or other circumstance away from power outlets.
What’s in the Box
Sansa c250 digital audio player, Earphones, USB Cable, Quick Start Guide, Lanyard, and 1 lithium ion battery.
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158 of 160 people found the following review helpful.
 Very good MP3 player
By Gift Recipient
I did quite a bit of research to get this one. and here are the reasons, I arrived at this decision:
78 of 82 people found the following review helpful.
 Good for the money, but OS inferior to earlier units.
By Thomas C. Duensing
My 3 year old 512k Sandisk developed a lose earplug mount so it was to upgrade. The store I went to was offering the C250 model for the same price as the C240 model so I bought it.
The new unit is nice. The sound is better than my older model and the 64k color display is decent. You can view photos on it if you wish. It has a rechargeable lithium polymer battery which is a minus as they wear out over time, Sandisk makes up for this a bit by making the battery replaceable (although the kid at the Be-st buy store was wrong when he said it wasn’t–maybe he was just trying to sell an extended warranty plan–bah). Still, I miss the flexibility my older player had with its AAA battery and the older one had a very similar battery life as my new one.
It has a passable FM tuner with decent reception. It won’t work as well as a home receiver but it works okay. Sadly, Sandisk still does not sell a player with AM capability, another minus.
The unit has shuffle play but not random play. (By definition, shuffle play will potentially repeat a song already played, while random play will not). This is an OS weakness that would be easy to implement in the OS code, but most manufacturers don’t bother.
Sandisk no longer uses a true FAT32 file system so their newer players have lost an enormous amount of flexibility compared to the older units. Now, I can only play music by “Artist”, “Genre”, “Song”, and “Album”. You no longer can pick a folder of music to play so you are limited by the predefined categories.
My old unit allowed the ability to play dance with pop by putting them in the same folder and simply playing from it. With the new unit that would be impossible without messing with the ID tags because now I can only select dance or pop but not both at the same time. It is “all” music or “one” genre, but not “some” genres. Clearly a big weakness.
From what I can tell, the unit uses the contents of the ID1 tags, so you need to have them properly populated. It does use playlists but I tend to not use them. I read that this unit only supports 1 playlist but I have yet to confirm that. If it allows multiple playlists then I could mix dance and pop but it would be pain to create a playlist for that.
In addition, the OS has been greatly dumbed down. You no longer can select the playback, display, or search speeds. You can no longer change the display orientation from right-handed to left-handed. You can no longer set left or right balance. You can no longer delete files from the device unless you are connected to a PC. The display no longer shows how much time is left on a song as it now only displays elapsed time, and you can no longer display what file name.
It is unfortunate that the newer units have been dumbed down as they have lost a number of very useful capabilities. Still, I like the new unit overall and I will adjust to the differences. It’s a good unit for the money and the Sandisk quality is still there–my last one lasted 3 years under heavy use (3-6 hours a day) so I can’t complain. If this will be your first MP3 player you probably won’t be disappointed.
73 of 78 people found the following review helpful.
 one big fault — otherwise quite great for the price
By techmannn
The contrast level on the display is so low no matter how one adjusts the brightness and backlight that you will have a hard time seeing what feature/song you are selecting. Its genuinely bizarre that they used a very light-blue field against a white backround. Text is black so at least you can see that clearly. Other than that, the sound is good for such a cheap player and it has a built-in equalizer to adjust the sound to your own liking. It will operate in MSC mode, which simply means that you can load music files into the player directly from the My Computer icon. No software of any sort needed at all to load songs into the player. You lose the ability to make playlists in MSC mode but personally I prefer the speed and simplicity of MSC mode. You cannot use MSC mode to play digitally-protected music. Again not an issue for me. If you are looking for a cheap mp3 player, this is worth considering.
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