SanDisk 16GB Clip Sport Plus MP3 Player, Blue - Bluetooth, LCD Screen, FM Radio - SDMX28-016G-G46B

Why did you pick this product vs others?:I've been using this product for over 2 years. It still runs strong and is super easy to use. People make fun of me because I'm using this in lieu of my phone while working out. I do not want the distraction of my phone while I'm pushing weights. The controls are easy to use and responsive. Portableness:Great.Quality:Excellent. Weight:Extremely light.Storage capacity:Holds a lot of music.

This review is for the SanDisk Clip Sport Plus Bluetooth 16GB MP3 player (Blue).I almost didn't buy this because there were so many negative reviews.The one and only reason I wanted a MP3 player is to play Audiobooks. I own a SanDisk Clip Sport Plus... purchased 3 years ago. I love it... but wanted to upgrade to a wireless Bluetooth... so I didn't have to have the Earbud wires hanging down and snagging on things while working.I received a Ruizu 8GB Portable Clip Bluetooth MP3 Player was purchased for me as a gift.I SENT THE RUIZU BACK... it did not play Audiobooks and I didn't like how you had to navigate back and forth to the Bluetooth screen to turn it on to get it to connect every time its turned on.So... I purchased a AGPTEK G15 16GB Bluetooth 4.0 MP3 Player, Wearable Clip.I also SENT this one BACK... although it did play Audiobooks from OverDrive and/or CD's ripped to MP3s... there was no main "Menu" button, so you had to keep pushing buttons to back out of your book and get to the Bluetooth screen to turn on the device, then navigate back to you book where you last left off. The other thing I did not like was that there was NO AUTO SAVE for books. You had to manually pause and navigate to a "Save" point in another menu screen. So if the player was on pause for more than 5 minutes, it Auto Shuts Off... and DOES NOT SAVE YOUR PLACE. Also it only allowed for up to "10 Saves points" before you have to start over writing other save points.After using my SanDisk Clip Sport Plus for the past 3 years... I was spoiled with the EASE of USE, especially after using 2 different MP3 players that were nothing like the SanDisk.So I decided to purchase and try out the new Bluetooth SanDisk MP3 player... what could I loose at this point...I have been using the SanDisk Bluetooth MP3 Player everyday since purchased on January 11, 2018.I really like it. It works just like the SanDisk Clip Sport Plus. It plays OverDrive Audiobooks just fine. Autosaves. It has a Main Menu Button. Easy to use. Once you set up the Bluetooth device... I have never had to navigate back to the Bluetooth menu screen. It remembers my device as soon as it is turned on. Turn the MP3 player on first, turn on the Bluetooth device. The Bluetooth icon on MP3 will light up in blue... letting you know you are connected. Push play... either on the MP3 player or your Bluetooth Ear device... (if you purchased one with Play/Pause like I did.)This MP3 Player is a little bigger than my Clip Sport Plus. The ON/OFF button is now the Front Middle Button instead of on the Top End of player. The Play/Pause button on the MP3 Player is a little stiffer... so you have to press it a little harder... (But THIS IS A WATER PROOF DEVICE... so the buttons are more of a thicker "Rubber" than "Plastic".)Over all... its the same player. It Auto Saves my place when I pause and/or it shuts down and seems to shut down fast when you push the Front Middle Button to turn it off. To turn on... your hold in the Front Middle button for about 7 seconds... same for the Bluetooth Ear device... hold for about 7 seconds to turn on.And yes... you can be listening to your Audiobook with your Bluetooth connected and still navigate the Menu buttons without pausing or stopping...if you need to make adjustment to something... like setting up a Sleep timer. I only mention this because of some of the reviews were saying you couldn't do this.I like this player well enough, that I am thinking about purchasing another one just to use at night when laying in bed.Also I would like to mention... I purchase a single Bluetooth Ear piece to use with this player while at work. So I could listen to my book and also hear if someone is talking to me. When someone is speaking to me... I just push Pause on the MP3 player or on my Ear piece... which ever one is more convenient at the time. If they are talking to me longer than say 10 minutes... my MP3 player will "Save" and shut down. The Bluetooth Ear device will tell me that "NO DEVICE IS CONNECTED." After another 5 minutes of not be connected to the MP3 player... the Bluetooth Ear piece will auto shut off. (I love this... because it does help to save on battery life.)SPECIAL NOTE:The Bluetooth Ear piece I purchased is very small... so it only has a 5 to 6 hours of battery life. I am at work for 8+ hours.So I purchase another Bluetooth Ear piece... the exact same one... so I conneted the 2nd Bluetooth Ear piece to the MP3 player... the same way as I did the first.So if you were to go to the Bluetooth Menu Screen... you would see the Ear device listed twice... (the 1st one and the 2nd one both with the same code number.)When I am listening to my Audiobook and the Bluetooth Ear piece tells me "Low Battery" I pause my book... Turn Off my Ear Piece... place it on its charger... I get the 2nd Bluetooth Ear piece thats already been charged and turn it on... it connects automaticly to the MP3 player (remember... its the exact same device/same code) so I put it in my ear and push Play on the player... and I am back to listening to my book. (Awesome!)

OK lets start with my biggest gripe.It will not work on Linux! As you can see in the screenshot, it appears in my disk utility, but not in my "devices" list. It should show up like an external drive, according to instructions, but nope. If you use Linux, look elsewhere for a player. That is, unless like me, you have access to the windows virus on a spare PC or laptop. That's what I did. I waded through the chest-deep crap and trash and the endless "update now!" and the Windows can not spy on you. log in to this spyware.." popup crap. I had to take music from my Linux machine, tranasfer it to a USB drive, then plug the drive into my windows-virused laptop and put the music on there. Only then, could I get music onto this player.What a pain in the rear! So hey WD/Sandisk, Just make the darn thing work with Linux, guys! It's a real thing, and it's not going away. Especially since even your servers, Amazons servers, even Microsofts and Apples servers all run... LINUX! Android is a version of Linux. So yeah, Sandisk, Linux is something you people should keep in mind with your devices. Your SD cards and USB drives work flawlessly in my Linux machine, Why did this player give me hell?A lesser gripe is that the screen on this player came pre-scratched. I took it from the original, still-sealed packaging, and it was scuffed up right on the screen. There was no screen protector film to peel off. A .001 cent piece of cling film plastic would have prevented this. However, that hardly obscures the screen when it is lit up, and does not affect any performance. It's just annoying that this happened.The last gripe, I promise. That is, there is some pre-loaded bloat. I don't need any audiobooks or lap timers and crap like that. I just want to play music. Period. But, that is the least of my gripes since Sandisk has kindly offered a setting to turn that junk off.Now for the good stuff:It works. Despite being forced to use the Macrohard Windurrs virus, to do it, I dragged a lump of random music into this thing. I just wanted to be done with that windows machine, fast, so I didn't bother to sort them. After ejecting the player and it initializing, it works fine. Sound is good via my KZ ZSN Pro IEM's (This is going to be a gift. I did not use the included buds)I was shocked to discover that the lump of music I dropped into this thing was all free lossless audio codec. Yes, FLAC! It plays flac files. NICE!The jumbled mess of content is all categorized into artis, album etc folder by the device.By "lump of music" and "jumbled mess" I mean about 8 compilation albums with various artists and such. It will sort them by artist or album if you wish, or it can just play the bulk. You can make playlists, but I'll leave that to the person who I am gifting this to. I'm only doing any of this since he has no access to a computer or anything other than cellphone internet. Otherwise, he's be setting it up himself. But I don't mind, so here I am. Which allows me to write a proper review.So to conclude: If you have windurrs or mack junk, you can use this no problem. But if you have Linux exclusively, You're gonna have a problem. (Get a Surfans F-20 D.A.P.. It doesn't care.)It works fine. You can turn off the bloatware. It plays fine, it sounds fine. (with flacs, have not tried it with lossy, MP3 files)I may update with further info about durability and longevity after I give this to my friend and he lets me know about that stuff.