Here’s another “enhancement”: Evidently, only files in the Audible, Audiobooks or Padcasts folders are treated as audiobooks. In Settings, you can change the speed of audiobook playback, but that doesn’t effect mp3 files in the root of the SD card. Why not treat all mp3 files the same and permit slow, normal or fast playback regardless of which folder (including root or Music) they’re in?
I can’t wait until my Clip Sport arrives so that I can see for myself what’s up with the tagging issue. I can’t help but wonder if what we’ve referred to elsewhere as “Sansa-friendly” tagging practices are all that is required. All my files have played on every device and OS I have tried, since I adopted those methods.
Tapeworm will know what I mean when I say “Sansa-friendly”…I just don’t want to recommend it to everyone until I try it for myself.
An m3u playlist also solves the problem without editing the tags.
the track order thing is very frustrating, evidently to quite a few people.
playing them in Track number order would make more sense.
I fully agree. I am terribly disapointed with this player right now 
Ciao,
LoneCat
I am an owner of each version of the Sandisk Clip. Along with just about everybody else, I find the Sport to be a huge step backward, and it’s very disappointing and frustrating. My main concerns are:
- the screwed up order of the songs.
2) the sport apparently does not support gapless MP3 playback.
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Playlists being limited to a single directory
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No consolidation of music between internal and external memory
I consider all these issues to be completely unacceptable. The Clip + and CLip Zip do not have any of these issues. The good news for Sandisk is that with this awful new product, they will surely sell their remaining stock of Clip Zips quickly. Best Buy.com has them on clearance for $29.99, and amazon has the same price.
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Sansa-Clip-Player-Black/dp/B005FVNGRS
I’ve just purchased the Clip Sport (Firmware 1.09) as a gift. It’s nice, and I like the reasonable screen and controls. I’d like to note the following issues:
- Issue: Album tracks play only in title alphabetical order.
Suggested fix : Allow play according to track number order.
Workaround: Rename titles (using MP3Tag) to include track number: “01-name”, “02-another name”, etc.
- Issue: Hebrew album names are truncated to 12 characters. Emglih album names are not truncated, don’t know about other languages.
Effect: If an artist has albums named “Greatest hits 1” and “Greatest hits 2”, both are lumped together as one big “Greatest hit” (12 characters), and play according to title (see bug 1).
Suggested fix: Don’t truncate album names.
Workaround: Rename albums. for example, “1 Greatest Hits” and “2 Greatest Hits”.
- Issue: If player is set to a non-Hebrew language, Hebrew names appear reversed.
Scenario1: People who have Hebrew music but prefer English UI, since the Hebrew translation is not that great (me).
Scenario2: People who have Hebrew music but are native Russian speakers (the intended giftees).
Suggested fix: Decide on reading order according to name’s first directional character, not according to UI language.
Can you guys implement a hold or lock keypad function?
Like maybe pressing the “Back+Select” keys together to lock and unlock the keypad?
I keep getting accidental presses which makes it very unusable.
Thanks!
I understand it’s in the works. Unfortunately, it may not make it in the upcoming firmware update, but possibly the one after.
How about a menu item in settings to be able to change the display background colors.
That gold is ugly. Would be nice to be able to customize it.
Sorry for my poor english.
I have any suggestions
1- A resume option when you change between music and radio.
2- Posibility of lock/unlock the player
3- Playback gapless (I have a Clip zip and the player have this option)
4- Flac Reproduction only is possible if the extension of the file is .FLA. If the extension is FLAC The file is not recognized.
5- If you change between internal memory and external storage in the option “FOLDER”, the play is off ¿why?
6 - The order of folders and files i think is by date of creation and not for name of file.
7 - The clock should be appear in the screen of te player
Support of mp4 videos from Youtube would be really great, i like to download talk shows on it but it is also very tiring to reencode everyone of them into wav.
I dont really care about the video part but it would be nice to get able to listen to the audio parts of these mp4 videos, my friends also share my point of view 
Please let’s do it !
I would say the odds of Sandisk adding another format after the product launch that they had to pay licensing fees for are virtually zero.
The minimal audio volume is sometimes too high.
1- A resume option when you change between music and radio.
2- Posibility of lock/unlock the player
3- Playback gapless (I have a Clip zip and the player have this option)
4- Flac Reproduction only is possible if the extension of the file is .FLA. If the extension is FLAC The file is not recognized.
5- If you change between internal memory and external storage in the option “FOLDER”, the play is off ¿why?
6 - The order of folders and files i think is by date of creation and not for name of file.
7 - The clock should be appear in the screen of te player
100% right
