Sansa sandisk clip
- #Sansa sandisk clip install#
- #Sansa sandisk clip update#
- #Sansa sandisk clip upgrade#
- #Sansa sandisk clip portable#
- #Sansa sandisk clip software#
#Sansa sandisk clip software#
SanDisk deserves credit for supporting Ogg and multiple operating systems, and for not obfuscating things by requiring unnecessary proprietary software to connect to its player. From the little product information that I could scrape together, I assumed that the support was out of the box. Still, I have to add that the effort considerably reduced my pleasure in the new player, because nothing indicated that I would have to make it. If anything, I have come to take for granted that I will have to. But that was the third bit of research I needed to do just in order to set things up.Īs a long-time GNU/Linux user, I am probably better able to do such things than most computer users. Disconnect the Clip and restart it, and the firmware updates.Īll in all, a straight forward process. Once the player mounts, copy the file into the root directory of the clip.Set the player to Hold, then hold the center button while plugging the player into a USB port.Make sure that your battery has at least a 50% charge, so that it doesn't run out of power in the middle of the upgrade.
#Sansa sandisk clip install#
Prepare to install the new firmware, by locating a copy on the web and then downloading and unzipping the.If a more recent revision is available, you need to make sure that you download the right version, since a player that uses 1.x release of the firmware cannot use a 2.x version. Check your firmware by going to Settings -> System Info -> Version # on the player, then checking the release of the latest revision online (the Wikipedia entry lists it, if the Sansa download page doesn't).Here are the steps I learned after another search on the web:
#Sansa sandisk clip update#
If you are a Windows user, you are provided with a script called Sansa Update for automating the process, but in GNU/Linux you are on your own.
#Sansa sandisk clip upgrade#
Yetl another problem occurred when I decided to upgrade the firmware. Discovering that fact added another twenty minutes to setup. That change meant that files I had transferred under MTP were no longer visible, except in the memory that they occupied, which lead to more puzzlement. To use that by default, required me to go into Settings -> System Info ->USB Mode to adjust the default I could use MTP under both GNOME and KDE, but naturally I preferred the more standard and less restrictive MSC protocol. However, a little experimentation soon showed that the automatic detection for supported USB protocols would always default to MTP, a DRM-supporting standard developed by Microsoft. The Clip recharged under GNU/Linux just fine (although products that can't be used for three hours until they recharge are a gripe for another day). It turned out, however, that the efforts to use the Clip with the operating system of my choice were not quite over. Once I researched the purchase and brought it home, I thought my troubles were over. Eventually, I discovered that it could - but why didn't the manufacturer bother to mention the simple fact? I had to do equal research to find out whether the Sansa Clip required special software to operate, or could be mounted under GNU/Linux like any other external USB drive. Even, then, the information was so intermittent that I researched the fact carefully on the web before I trusted it. I only found the information here and there at various vendors. Although the Sansa Clip's firmware has supported Ogg for a year and has always worked on GNU/Linux, SanDisk still hasn't got around to mentioning the facts consistently in its advertising - never mind that mentioning them would take less than a dozen words and might increase sales by a percent or two. However, I would have been missed the fact that a Sansa Clip was a candidate for my purchase if I had no resource except the manufacturer's product page. Besides, as usual with Apple, iPods are overpriced compared to similar hardware from other manufacturers. I also wanted one that included Ogg support out of the box I knew that I could use Rockbox or iPodLinux to liberate an iPod, but I was no more eager to give my money to Apple than to Microsoft. I wanted a player that supported Ogg Vorbis format, which is not only a free standard but - so far as I can hear - superior in sound quality to MP3. Eventually, I found what I wanted in a Sans Clip 4 gigabyte player, but at times I wondered if the manufacturer was trying to hide the compatibility.
#Sansa sandisk clip portable#
My search for a portable music player was no exception. Having arrived in middle-age far too starry-eyed for my own good, I always go to some lengths to find hardware or software compatible with GNU/Linux.