SanDisk Sansa m250 2 GB MP3 Player (Black)

I purchased this mp3 player because I had heard good things about it. I haven't been disappointed by it yet. It's easy to use and stores a good amount of music. The earphones that come with it are comfortable. The battery life is impressively long, too. Great for long car rides.

The only gripe I have (and this may be a problem with my unit specifically) is that it sometimes freezes after I turn it on, which is fixed by turning off and then on again.

As I said this has to be the best value for a 2gig MP3 player.
Easy to use and download to using windows media player.
Sound s great even with the smallish earbuds that it comes with.
So easy to use I even got a second one for my wife.

i have a similar sansa with a 512mb capacity. this one seems identical except for memory capacity. its lightweight and easy to use with one hand (while jogging for instance) with a adjustable blue backlit screen.
i dont use much of the playlist features but the particular model i received seems to make my mp3s skip. i dont know if its my music or a problem with the player itself.

What can I say? I have three other Sansas. They all have functioned error-free over the years. And they have held up physically just fine. I bought so many so that I could "load" each one for different purposes- travel, sports, and so on. Then just grab and go!

Beware - this player is not for use with audiobooks! Also, SanDisk has discontinued this model and no longer supports it!! Unfortunately, when I bought it there was no indication on the description or packaging that it did not work well with audiobooks. The reason I bought the player was precisely for audiobooks!!! I was extremely disappointed when I downloaded some books and tried listening to them. They'll play on it; however, when you turn the player off you cannot get back to where you were!! There's no bookmarking capability and when you try to FF through a large file, the player either locks up or returns to the beginning of the file.

Apparently, the customer service for SanDisk is not too good either based on the info and reviews I found online. I did try to submit a request for help due to my issue with this player but never received a response. That is probably because the player is discontinued I think the inability to play audiobooks is a 'bug' for this player and SanDisk either cannot or will not fix it.

However, it does well with a typical 3-5 minute songs and has an FM tuner that works well. For what it does do, it works relatively well. It did not do what I wanted (play audiobooks with the ability to return to where you stopped), so I had to return it to Amazon. Amazon was great about it, too. Instead, I bought a used Creative Zune V Plus that does meet my needs for audiobooks.