Shaker gets props

[turbov21]

I ostensibly bought the Shaker for my mom -- earphones give her a headache -- and was setting up up last night:

1. It's a bit tricky to get the bottom cap open the first time, but one you do it's much easier.

2. Copying music is as easy as dragging and dropping files (wish the same was true for my Express).

3. The controls are dead simple and effective.

4. The speaker is pretty decent. It's no iPod, but it's easily as good as my Megxon M500's speakers.

I would definitely recommend the Shaker to anyone who wanted an MP3 player (for kids or adults) on the cheap.

[CrowdAds]

[kennyj]

Definitely a cool little toy for the kids, if nothing else. I'd love to see SanDisk do more with the concept of simple players running on SD cards; something closer to the Express's size would be awesome.

[Javier78]

I was wondering if there was a way to turn the 'shake' feature off. Is it possible somehow?

[kennyj]

Nope. It does what it does, and that's it.

[Ace12]

Can't turn the shake feature off, thats why you have to hold the play / pause button down to activate it. If you don't hold the button down you can shake it all day and it wont skip.

[classic85]

Originally Posted by turbov21

It's no iPod

[ricocarlos]

I've heard other owners mention this: the player skips sometimes. We've got two of them and love them, but sometimes songs skip. Is there any known fix for this?

[kennyj]

I didn't even know it was an issue. How good are the songs you're using? I've seen a number of different MP3 players skip when using poorly-encoded tracks (ie. crap downloaded from Limewire.)

[sagittarii]

Originally Posted by ricocarlos

I've heard other owners mention this: the player skips sometimes. We've got two of them and love them, but sometimes songs skip. Is there any known fix for this?

I bought a Shaker for my 4 year old daughter and she loves it. After awhile it eventually did skip while playing some songs. I tried several things....recoding the track(s), reformatting and reloading the card, all tracks are in 128k.....problem persisted..........tech support ended up shipping a repacement player and card. This was good for several months and now the new player is starting to skip again occaionally. Would be nice if there was a fix for this.

Just found the following. Will have to check the format of my daughters 512k card.........
http://forums.sandisk.com/sansa/boar...&thread.id=169

[ricocarlos]

I did find that with a fully charged battery the problem would go away.

[beteks]

I would buy one just to play music out loud.

[sansaguy]

Originally Posted by sagittarii

I bought a Shaker for my 4 year old daughter and she loves it. After awhile it eventually did skip while playing some songs. I tried several things....recoding the track(s), reformatting and reloading the card, all tracks are in 128k.....problem persisted..........tech support ended up shipping a repacement player and card. This was good for several months and now the new player is starting to skip again occaionally. Would be nice if there was a fix for this.

Just found the following. Will have to check the format of my daughters 512k card.........
http://forums.sandisk.com/sansa/boar...&thread.id=169

just a shot in the dark here sagittarii, but I was reading through this thread and have an idea?. I own an e260 and had problems playing tracks, then reformatted both my player and memory card the SAME way...FAT. Problem solved and has never returned. Check the Shaker's docs to see how the internal drive is formatted (or call Sandisk tech support), and format your memory card accordingly.

Hope this helps.

[Hillshum]

Originally Posted by sansaguy

just a shot in the dark here sagittarii, but I was reading through this thread and have an idea?. I own an e260 and had problems playing tracks, then reformatted both my player and memory card the SAME way...FAT. Problem solved and has never returned. Check the Shaker's docs to see how the internal drive is formatted (or call Sandisk tech support), and format your memory card accordingly.

Hope this helps.

the shaker has only the SD card, no internal memory