This seemed to work well until inexplicably it would stop and display an error message saying, "sansa connect has encountered an error and must restart now." This process would then take approximately three minutes, (I think it was trying to reset itself). Anyway after doing this it would work for about another 5 minutes to an hour, and then do the same thing. This was unacceptable for me, so I finally gave up and just returned it.

Yes, for whatever reasons, after a couple of on/off, downloading a song or two, the player would not power off, it got stuck in the welcome screen. Since it does not have a detacheable battery, I had no choice but to return the item to Amazon. Wish Sandisk had paid more attention to product quality.

They told me to return it and get a replacement. So it doesn't appear to be the best made device. By the time I got my replacement, I was over the 'trial period' for the WRONG Yahoo service and they wouldn't refund me my money.

I don't think it's worth paying a subscription fee to Yahoo Music when the device isn't even portable -- I could just stream music for free if I wanted to be tied to only places with power available. The other very bad thing about this product is that if you are already a Yahoo Music Jukebox user it's nearly impossible to get the software for the Sansa to work properly. Unlike with an iPod where you just plug it in and it offers to transfer your songs, I had to uninstall, reinstall, delete songs, re-download songs, etc.

To start with it will work only Windows machine, moreover they force you to install Yahoo software on you computer. Unfortunately this soft is full of bugs and constantly crashes, that drives me crazy. There is not reason why they can't just allow to connect this player to the USB port and copy over all folders together with on move of a mose.

Overall, its not a bad device but certainly not what I had hoped for. As you may or may not have noticed, the price has dropped on these things by 20 bucks or more since before Christmas. I may be returning it and putting this 100 bucks towards a satellite portable radio.

Unhappy with sansa connect, I returned it for a refund.

this is a piece of junk. I used it for one day, and then stopped working.

Because this Mp3 player will soon be useless! I bought one six weeks ago and enjoyed it for a month, then it suddenly stopped playing all songs and through much time and effort I discovered that you have to sign into your Yahoo Music account each month and sync the player for your songs to continue playing. However, I STILL can't get any songs to play and while perusing the FAQs and message boards trying to figure out why, I discovered this MOST IMPORTANT POINT: Yahoo has sold out to Rhapsody and this change will take place, it's said, in mid-2008.

If I could get the device to be recognized, it wouldn't download the songs, or they would show as unlicensed a day or two after they were downloaded onto the player. It would take me hours some nights to get it working. I had no other options being short on cash so I tried to stick it out.

Comes with Yahoo Jukebox software (like WinAmp, MediaMonkey, or Microsoft Media Player but arguably worse). You can download files directly to the device in Microsoft Windows Explorer (File Manger) when connected USB if you can get it to connect. I have found it to be a bit buggy so far not connecting and downloading files well via USB but this may be a problem with my particular setup and I have gotten it to work eventually.

This is basically like XIM or SIRIUS radio on steriods: Here are some of the channels: 1980s pop, 1990s rock, 1970s soul, 40 years ago hits of 1967, forgotten hits of the 90s, disco, house, dance, brazilian, salsa cien po ciento, latin jazz, classic rock, emo, garage rock, alternative, metal, hair flare, brit rock, goth rock,southern rock, classic soul, reggae, underground hip-hop, east coast rap, hardcore rap, any many many others. These channels are all CD quality and if you dont like the song hit next and it flips to the next song. If you like a song click save and it downloads it offline for listening when not connected to wifi.

It has a Friends feature and purchase music button which I find useless and wish could be eliminated. With my earbuds (I have not used the ones that came with it) I cannot turn it up all the way because it is too loud. The Yahoo Lauchcast monopoly of this system is a bad idea.

I never even worry if it's charged or not, it always just seems to have plenty of battery life. I was excited to receive the Sansa Connect, even told all my friends about the concept of unlimited downloads. Sadly I'm very disappointed with the product.

Generally I am very disappointed and I am returning it

I don't think you can connect to any internet radio, it has to be the Yahoo unfortunately. You can drag and drop in windows explorer with WMP 11 installed, it was not recognized with WMP 10. Four stars instead of 5 for not connecting to other internet streaming stations other than Yahoo.

The first one crashed and burned for no reason. It just stopped. I called tech support, they had me download a rescue program.

The face of it's already scratched up, which is somewhat disappointing, although covers are available. I get about 7 to 8 hours of battery life out of it each day. Not bad, but I have to remember to plug it in each night if I want to be able to use it the next day.

I don't recommend as only mp3 player for car, workouts or anyplace too noisy since this player's volume is too low (I have or have had about dozen players). Battery is poor even with wifi off - avg about 6-8hrs. Video is cool but a pain to convert and send.

Please do yourself a favor and DO NOT BUY this product. It does not work properly. It will not sync with Windows Media Player.

I don't think it's worth paying a subscription fee to Yahoo music when the device isn't even portable -- I could just stream music for free if I wanted to be tied to only places with power available. The other very bad thing about this product is that if you are already a Yahoo music Jukebox user it's nearly impossible to get the software for the Sansa to work properly. Unlike with an iPod where you just plug it in and it offers to transfer your songs, I had to uninstall, reinstall, delete songs, re-download songs, etc.

Because this Mp3 player will soon be useless! I bought one six weeks ago and enjoyed it for a month, then it suddenly stopped playing all songs and through much time and effort I discovered that you have to sign into your Yahoo music account each month and sync the player for your songs to continue playing. However, I STILL can't get any songs to play and while perusing the FAQs and message boards trying to figure out why, I discovered this MOST IMPORTANT POINT: Yahoo has sold out to Rhapsody and this change will take place, it's said, in mid-2008.

It has a Friends feature and purchase music button which I find useless and wish could be eliminated. With my earbuds (I have not used the ones that came with it) I cannot turn it up all the way because it is too loud. The Yahoo Lauchcast monopoly of this system is a bad idea.

The Sansa Connect requires 'Yahoo Unlimited TO GO' in order for you to transfer any of those songs to your player - 15 bucks a month. THEN it is another 79 cents per song if you wish to burn them to a CD. #2) Yahoo music Jukebox is slow and crashes my machine.

Some people still don't get "renting music" but once you get over that, it is very liberating. The music you get to listen to is not dictated by a radio station or your ability to afford tons of new cd's each month. I really don't understand why the Sansa Connect is not flying off the shelves.

- you can store pictures on it - you can store your OWN music on it and take it with you - I am pretty sure you can transfer music that you have rights to from other companies (I haven't tried) - not Apple obviously - but again, it is designed for Yahoo services and you will not get the internet radio which is the BEST feature of it (and the WHOLE point of the wireless)

When I hear a song I want, I write it down and download it at a later time. If you have Yahoo Unlimited,(I don't) it's even easier, just select a song a get it from the on-screen menu. I've had some difficulty with Yahoo music Jukebox working properly all the time, but I've been able to get over 500 songs on, which is more than enough.

My only criticism is that I wish Sandisk would write some interface software for Apple (OSX) users, who could then hard-sync our Sansa Connect devices. Another interesting fact is that Yahoo (the folks who supply the music downloads for this device) also did not write any Apple software for your Apple computer.

In fact, I have filled up 2 GB of music and haven't yet connected a computer or cable or CD or software program. If you believe that the musical experience is a trip rather than a known destination, and the discovery of what you like and what is new is part of the experience, then get this player. If you think you already have all the music you want and plan on purchasing new songs for a buck each from Itunes or another service then get an Ipod.

In my opinion it's pretty much unconscionable to ship a portable music player that isn't really portable for more than 30-40 minutes. Even with the WiFi turned off it's not much better. Contrast this to my 5th generation iPod (which the Sansa was intended to replace) which gets 13-20 hours per charge.

They told me to return it and get a replacement. So it doesn't appear to be the best made device. By the time I got my replacement, I was over the 'trial period' for the WRONG yahoo service and they wouldn't refund me my money.

I don't think it's worth paying a subscription fee to yahoo Music when the device isn't even portable -- I could just stream music for free if I wanted to be tied to only places with power available. The other very bad thing about this product is that if you are already a yahoo Music Jukebox user it's nearly impossible to get the software for the Sansa to work properly. Unlike with an iPod where you just plug it in and it offers to transfer your songs, I had to uninstall, reinstall, delete songs, re-download songs, etc.

To start with it will work only Windows machine, moreover they force you to install yahoo software on you computer. Unfortunately this soft is full of bugs and constantly crashes, that drives me crazy. There is not reason why they can't just allow to connect this player to the USB port and copy over all folders together with on move of a mose.

Because this Mp3 player will soon be useless! I bought one six weeks ago and enjoyed it for a month, then it suddenly stopped playing all songs and through much time and effort I discovered that you have to sign into your yahoo Music account each month and sync the player for your songs to continue playing. However, I STILL can't get any songs to play and while perusing the FAQs and message boards trying to figure out why, I discovered this MOST IMPORTANT POINT: yahoo has sold out to Rhapsody and this change will take place, it's said, in mid-2008.

Comes with yahoo Jukebox software (like WinAmp, MediaMonkey, or Microsoft Media Player but arguably worse). You can download files directly to the device in Microsoft Windows Explorer (File Manger) when connected USB if you can get it to connect. I have found it to be a bit buggy so far not connecting and downloading files well via USB but this may be a problem with my particular setup and I have gotten it to work eventually.

It has a Friends feature and purchase music button which I find useless and wish could be eliminated. With my earbuds (I have not used the ones that came with it) I cannot turn it up all the way because it is too loud. The yahoo Lauchcast monopoly of this system is a bad idea.

I don't think you can connect to any internet radio, it has to be the yahoo unfortunately. You can drag and drop in windows explorer with WMP 11 installed, it was not recognized with WMP 10. Four stars instead of 5 for not connecting to other internet streaming stations other than yahoo.

And the Sansa Connect is NOT compatible with Rhapsody!!! I have no idea what may or may not be done about this but all I know is: my player is not playing any songs and I haven't found any help from yahoo about why. Now I learn that yahoo is calling it quits and there are no plans announced regarding the future of the Sansa Connect.

The Sansa Connect requires 'yahoo Unlimited TO GO' in order for you to transfer any of those songs to your player - 15 bucks a month. THEN it is another 79 cents per song if you wish to burn them to a CD. #2) yahoo Music Jukebox is slow and crashes my machine.

- you can store pictures on it - you can store your OWN music on it and take it with you - I am pretty sure you can transfer music that you have rights to from other companies (I haven't tried) - not Apple obviously - but again, it is designed for yahoo services and you will not get the internet radio which is the BEST feature of it (and the WHOLE point of the wireless)

I don't think you can connect to any internet radio, it has to be the Yahoo unfortunately. You can drag and drop in windows explorer with WMP 11 installed, it was not recognized with WMP 10. Four stars instead of 5 for not connecting to other internet streaming stations other than Yahoo.

- you can store pictures on it - you can store your OWN music on it and take it with you - I am pretty sure you can transfer music that you have rights to from other companies (I haven't tried) - not Apple obviously - but again, it is designed for Yahoo services and you will not get the internet radio which is the BEST feature of it (and the WHOLE point of the wireless)

I'm sure there are better units out there, but this one's pretty good for the price. The flickr function is fun, but I don't use it much, since I don't spend most of my day near a wireless connection. Same goes for the internet radio ability, although I do use that around the house.

#1) You are totally reliant on Yahoo Music Service. It cannot be used with another service for the internet radio portion. And NO it is NOT a 2 for 1 Mastercard Promotion.

A caveat: Yahoo Music Unlimited is apparently being discontinued. internet radio will still be around for free music, and likely Sansa will partner with Real or some other company for DRM subscription service.

internet radio will not work after Summer 2008 because Yahoo!

I never even worry if it's charged or not, it always just seems to have plenty of battery life. I was excited to receive the Sansa Connect, even told all my friends about the concept of unlimited downloads. Sadly I'm very disappointed with the product.

The Sansa Connect requires 'Yahoo unlimited TO GO' in order for you to transfer any of those songs to your player - 15 bucks a month. THEN it is another 79 cents per song if you wish to burn them to a CD. #2) Yahoo Music Jukebox is slow and crashes my machine.

When I hear a song I want, I write it down and download it at a later time. If you have Yahoo unlimited,(I don't) it's even easier, just select a song a get it from the on-screen menu. I've had some difficulty with Yahoo Music Jukebox working properly all the time, but I've been able to get over 500 songs on, which is more than enough.

A caveat: Yahoo Music unlimited is apparently being discontinued. Internet radio will still be around for free music, and likely Sansa will partner with Real or some other company for DRM subscription service.

You can't buy a decent 2gb mp3 player for this price, and this has a micro slot for unlimited capacity. Internal speaker better then you would expect for a unit this size. Pretty display.

I don't think it's worth paying a subscription fee to yahoo music when the device isn't even portable -- I could just stream music for free if I wanted to be tied to only places with power available. The other very bad thing about this product is that if you are already a yahoo music Jukebox user it's nearly impossible to get the software for the Sansa to work properly. Unlike with an iPod where you just plug it in and it offers to transfer your songs, I had to uninstall, reinstall, delete songs, re-download songs, etc.

Because this Mp3 player will soon be useless! I bought one six weeks ago and enjoyed it for a month, then it suddenly stopped playing all songs and through much time and effort I discovered that you have to sign into your yahoo music account each month and sync the player for your songs to continue playing. However, I STILL can't get any songs to play and while perusing the FAQs and message boards trying to figure out why, I discovered this MOST IMPORTANT POINT: Yahoo has sold out to Rhapsody and this change will take place, it's said, in mid-2008.

The Sansa Connect requires 'Yahoo Unlimited TO GO' in order for you to transfer any of those songs to your player - 15 bucks a month. THEN it is another 79 cents per song if you wish to burn them to a CD. #2) yahoo music Jukebox is slow and crashes my machine.

When I hear a song I want, I write it down and download it at a later time. If you have Yahoo Unlimited,(I don't) it's even easier, just select a song a get it from the on-screen menu. I've had some difficulty with yahoo music Jukebox working properly all the time, but I've been able to get over 500 songs on, which is more than enough.

#1) You are totally reliant on yahoo music Service. It cannot be used with another service for the internet radio portion. And NO it is NOT a 2 for 1 Mastercard Promotion.

A caveat: yahoo music Unlimited is apparently being discontinued. Internet radio will still be around for free music, and likely Sansa will partner with Real or some other company for DRM subscription service.

I bought one about a month ago for use with the yahoo music Service and have really been liking it. I am giving this a 1 review simply because this product will become obsolete in a few months.

This is basically like XIM or SIRIUS radio on steriods: Here are some of the channels: 1980s pop, 1990s rock, 1970s soul, 40 years ago hits of 1967, forgotten hits of the 90s, disco, house, dance, brazilian, salsa cien po ciento, latin jazz, classic rock, emo, garage rock, alternative, metal, hair flare, brit rock, goth rock,southern rock, classic soul, reggae, underground hip-hop, east coast rap, hardcore rap, any many many others. These channels are all CD quality and if you dont like the song hit next and it flips to the next song. If you like a song click save and it downloads it offline for listening when not connected to wifi.

I don't recommend as only mp3 player for car, workouts or anyplace too noisy since this player's volume is too low (I have or have had about dozen players). Battery is poor even with wifi off - avg about 6-8hrs. Video is cool but a pain to convert and send.

Cons: Will not connect to wifi sites that require you to agree to terms of use. Volumn is not good. Plastic is soft, two days and the screen was all scratched up

FYI... Ive just learned that the Yahoo To Go service that is built into this device will be discontinued by Yahoo "Mid 2008". Other services like Rhapsody will stll be available but I believe you will need to connect to your PC via the USB instead of utilizing this items built in wifi

In my opinion it's pretty much unconscionable to ship a portable music player that isn't really portable for more than 30-40 minutes. Even with the wifi turned off it's not much better. Contrast this to my 5th generation iPod (which the Sansa was intended to replace) which gets 13-20 hours per charge.

If you are considering buying the Sansa Connect go check out Yahoo Lauchcast Radio with your Microsoft Internet Explorer browser (It will not work with Firefox!!) and see if you like it. Sansa connect= Sansa e260 - FM Tuner - Recording ability +Yahoo Launchcast ONLY on Open wifi ONLY + very low volume external speaker

I've read most of the other reviews and the only thing I can add is that this device DOES support video playback. I don't know if this is a new firmware update (perhaps it is), but either way, if you buy this very good player, you will have video capability, so no need to decide between wifi vs video playback.

I don't think it's worth paying a subscription fee to Yahoo Music when the device isn't even portable -- I could just stream music for free if I wanted to be tied to only places with power available. The other very bad thing about this product is that if you are already a Yahoo Music Jukebox user it's nearly impossible to get the software for the Sansa to work properly. Unlike with an iPod where you just plug it in and it offers to transfer your songs, I had to uninstall, reinstall, delete songs, re-download songs, etc.

Because this Mp3 player will soon be useless! I bought one six weeks ago and enjoyed it for a month, then it suddenly stopped playing all songs and through much time and effort I discovered that you have to sign into your Yahoo Music account each month and sync the player for your songs to continue playing. However, I STILL can't get any songs to play and while perusing the FAQs and message boards trying to figure out why, I discovered this MOST IMPORTANT POINT: Yahoo has sold out to Rhapsody and this change will take place, it's said, in mid-2008.

If I could get the device to be recognized, it wouldn't download the songs, or they would show as unlicensed a day or two after they were downloaded onto the player. It would take me hours some nights to get it working. I had no other options being short on cash so I tried to stick it out.

And the Sansa Connect is NOT compatible with Rhapsody!!! I have no idea what may or may not be done about this but all I know is: my player is not playing any songs and I haven't found any help from Yahoo about why. Now I learn that Yahoo is calling it quits and there are no plans announced regarding the future of the Sansa Connect.

The Sansa Connect requires 'Yahoo Unlimited TO GO' in order for you to transfer any of those songs to your player - 15 bucks a month. THEN it is another 79 cents per song if you wish to burn them to a CD. #2) Yahoo Music Jukebox is slow and crashes my machine.

When I hear a song I want, I write it down and download it at a later time. If you have Yahoo Unlimited,(I don't) it's even easier, just select a song a get it from the on-screen menu. I've had some difficulty with Yahoo Music Jukebox working properly all the time, but I've been able to get over 500 songs on, which is more than enough.

In fact, I have filled up 2 GB of music and haven't yet connected a computer or cable or CD or software program. If you believe that the musical experience is a trip rather than a known destination, and the discovery of what you like and what is new is part of the experience, then get this player. If you think you already have all the music you want and plan on purchasing new songs for a buck each from Itunes or another service then get an Ipod.

I don't think it's worth paying a subscription fee to Yahoo Music when the device isn't even portable -- I could just stream music for free if I wanted to be tied to only places with power available. The other very bad thing about this product is that if you are already a Yahoo Music Jukebox user it's nearly impossible to get the software for the Sansa to work properly. Unlike with an iPod where you just plug it in and it offers to transfer your songs, I had to uninstall, reinstall, delete songs, re-download songs, etc.

To start with it will work only Windows machine, moreover they force you to install Yahoo software on you computer. Unfortunately this soft is full of bugs and constantly crashes, that drives me crazy. There is not reason why they can't just allow to connect this player to the USB port and copy over all folders together with on move of a mose.

Comes with Yahoo Jukebox software (like WinAmp, MediaMonkey, or Microsoft Media Player but arguably worse). You can download files directly to the device in Microsoft Windows Explorer (File Manger) when connected USB if you can get it to connect. I have found it to be a bit buggy so far not connecting and downloading files well via USB but this may be a problem with my particular setup and I have gotten it to work eventually.

My only criticism is that I wish Sandisk would write some interface software for Apple (OSX) users, who could then hard-sync our Sansa Connect devices. Another interesting fact is that Yahoo (the folks who supply the music downloads for this device) also did not write any Apple software for your Apple computer.

In fact, I have filled up 2 GB of music and haven't yet connected a computer or cable or CD or software program. If you believe that the musical experience is a trip rather than a known destination, and the discovery of what you like and what is new is part of the experience, then get this player. If you think you already have all the music you want and plan on purchasing new songs for a buck each from Itunes or another service then get an Ipod.

Of course, you can elect to sign-up for the very nice all-you-can-ea music from Yahoo...but, I haven't done that yet. However, I can see from the device's software that this part of the Connect is well designed; or at least, it seems so.

The Sansa Connect is an amazing MP3 player that comes with software to load tracks. Sometimes the programme does not recognize the MP3 player and I needed to reinitialize the device twice.

I still love my iPods, but this device does many things that an iPod cannot do. Now...if Sandisk would PLEASE write some software for my Apple OS X machine.

They told me to return it and get a replacement. So it doesn't appear to be the best made device. By the time I got my replacement, I was over the 'trial period' for the WRONG Yahoo service and they wouldn't refund me my money.

In fact, I have filled up 2 GB of music and haven't yet connected a computer or cable or CD or software program. If you believe that the musical experience is a trip rather than a known destination, and the discovery of what you like and what is new is part of the experience, then get this player. If you think you already have all the music you want and plan on purchasing new songs for a buck each from Itunes or another service then get an Ipod.

FYI... Ive just learned that the Yahoo To Go service that is built into this device will be discontinued by Yahoo "Mid 2008". Other services like Rhapsody will stll be available but I believe you will need to connect to your PC via the USB instead of utilizing this items built in WiFi

#1) You are totally reliant on Yahoo Music service. It cannot be used with another service for the internet radio portion. And NO it is NOT a 2 for 1 Mastercard Promotion.

A caveat: Yahoo Music Unlimited is apparently being discontinued. Internet radio will still be around for free music, and likely Sansa will partner with Real or some other company for DRM subscription service.

I bought one about a month ago for use with the Yahoo Music service and have really been liking it. I am giving this a 1 review simply because this product will become obsolete in a few months.