SanDisk Sansa View 16 GB Video MP3 Player (Black)

This Sansa View 16GB Video MP3 Player has very good qualities, but a
couple of problems causes me to not recommend it.
Positive: Great sound, size, appearance, FM radio band and easy to use.
Negative: Battery life isn't long (I've had to re-charge after a couple of hours) and a few times all of the content on my player was erased, because I re-charged on a computer without Rhapsody. To say the least, very inconvenient and irritating to have to format the player each time and download all of the songs again.
With all of the choices available, I would look at other players.

The first Sansa View I received worked great, but it would not hold a charge on the battery for more than five hours (advertised as 35 hour capacity). Also a slight amount of heat given off as battery discharged. Amazon replaced with no problem.

Second Sansa View had a battery that would last a very long time, but it would freeze up at the introduction screen when it was turned on. Leave it alone and most of the time it would eventually come on and play mp3s. I returned that one to Amazon too.

I am now going to get an IPOD.

The Sansa View 16GB was returned after I had it for only two days.I spent many hours attempting to load music onto it, with limited success. The instructions were minimal, and doing a drag and drop of music files did not work reliably. I spent some time on the phone with tech support; they took me through the process of music transfer from my PC to the View. When the file transfer was complete, only a small portion of the music files showed up on the View.

Since I did like the size, display, and thumb wheel of the device, I was disappointed that the View just wouldn't function properly for me.

Sansa continues its success with another affordable mp3 player. The View is solidly built and very functional. I bought this for our home stereo system. Its interface simple enough that the whole family can use it.

Despite the claims of the Best Buy salesman, the Sansa View is unable to play Audio Books from NetLibrary websites. It is not WMA compatible. I only wanted to listen to AudioBooks with this MP3 player, so it is now obsolete to me.