SanDisk 32GB Clip Sport Plus MP3 Player, Black - Bluetooth, LCD Screen, FM Radio - SDMX32-032G-G46K

This review is for the SanDisk Clip Sport Plus Bluetooth 16GB MP3 player (Blue).I almost didn't buy this because there were so many negative reviews.The one and only reason I wanted a MP3 player is to play Audiobooks. I own a SanDisk Clip Sport Plus... purchased 3 years ago. I love it... but wanted to upgrade to a wireless Bluetooth... so I didn't have to have the Earbud wires hanging down and snagging on things while working.I received a Ruizu 8GB Portable Clip Bluetooth MP3 Player was purchased for me as a gift.I SENT THE RUIZU BACK... it did not play Audiobooks and I didn't like how you had to navigate back and forth to the Bluetooth screen to turn it on to get it to connect every time its turned on.So... I purchased a AGPTEK G15 16GB Bluetooth 4.0 MP3 Player, Wearable Clip.I also SENT this one BACK... although it did play Audiobooks from OverDrive and/or CD's ripped to MP3s... there was no main "Menu" button, so you had to keep pushing buttons to back out of your book and get to the Bluetooth screen to turn on the device, then navigate back to you book where you last left off. The other thing I did not like was that there was NO AUTO SAVE for books. You had to manually pause and navigate to a "Save" point in another menu screen. So if the player was on pause for more than 5 minutes, it Auto Shuts Off... and DOES NOT SAVE YOUR PLACE. Also it only allowed for up to "10 Saves points" before you have to start over writing other save points.After using my SanDisk Clip Sport Plus for the past 3 years... I was spoiled with the EASE of USE, especially after using 2 different MP3 players that were nothing like the SanDisk.So I decided to purchase and try out the new Bluetooth SanDisk MP3 player... what could I loose at this point...I have been using the SanDisk Bluetooth MP3 Player everyday since purchased on January 11, 2018.I really like it. It works just like the SanDisk Clip Sport Plus. It plays OverDrive Audiobooks just fine. Autosaves. It has a Main Menu Button. Easy to use. Once you set up the Bluetooth device... I have never had to navigate back to the Bluetooth menu screen. It remembers my device as soon as it is turned on. Turn the MP3 player on first, turn on the Bluetooth device. The Bluetooth icon on MP3 will light up in blue... letting you know you are connected. Push play... either on the MP3 player or your Bluetooth Ear device... (if you purchased one with Play/Pause like I did.)This MP3 Player is a little bigger than my Clip Sport Plus. The ON/OFF button is now the Front Middle Button instead of on the Top End of player. The Play/Pause button on the MP3 Player is a little stiffer... so you have to press it a little harder... (But THIS IS A WATER PROOF DEVICE... so the buttons are more of a thicker "Rubber" than "Plastic".)Over all... its the same player. It Auto Saves my place when I pause and/or it shuts down and seems to shut down fast when you push the Front Middle Button to turn it off. To turn on... your hold in the Front Middle button for about 7 seconds... same for the Bluetooth Ear device... hold for about 7 seconds to turn on.And yes... you can be listening to your Audiobook with your Bluetooth connected and still navigate the Menu buttons without pausing or stopping...if you need to make adjustment to something... like setting up a Sleep timer. I only mention this because of some of the reviews were saying you couldn't do this.I like this player well enough, that I am thinking about purchasing another one just to use at night when laying in bed.Also I would like to mention... I purchase a single Bluetooth Ear piece to use with this player while at work. So I could listen to my book and also hear if someone is talking to me. When someone is speaking to me... I just push Pause on the MP3 player or on my Ear piece... which ever one is more convenient at the time. If they are talking to me longer than say 10 minutes... my MP3 player will "Save" and shut down. The Bluetooth Ear device will tell me that "NO DEVICE IS CONNECTED." After another 5 minutes of not be connected to the MP3 player... the Bluetooth Ear piece will auto shut off. (I love this... because it does help to save on battery life.)SPECIAL NOTE:The Bluetooth Ear piece I purchased is very small... so it only has a 5 to 6 hours of battery life. I am at work for 8+ hours.So I purchase another Bluetooth Ear piece... the exact same one... so I conneted the 2nd Bluetooth Ear piece to the MP3 player... the same way as I did the first.So if you were to go to the Bluetooth Menu Screen... you would see the Ear device listed twice... (the 1st one and the 2nd one both with the same code number.)When I am listening to my Audiobook and the Bluetooth Ear piece tells me "Low Battery" I pause my book... Turn Off my Ear Piece... place it on its charger... I get the 2nd Bluetooth Ear piece thats already been charged and turn it on... it connects automaticly to the MP3 player (remember... its the exact same device/same code) so I put it in my ear and push Play on the player... and I am back to listening to my book. (Awesome!)

I love this little player. I'm on my second one, as I wore the first one out. No fault of the manufacturer or any shade on the quality, though, as it endured heavy use over a period of years, and even got dropped a lot. I got my money's worth.The audio quality is good, too. Not awesome, but good enough, especially for the price (if you want awesome, get one of those digital Walkmans, and be prepared to pay). That's why I bought another. I may buy more as spares for the future, and it is inexpensive enough to do so, as I don't want to chance that it will one day be discontinued due to lack of demand.It's smart to invest in dedicated, optimized devices to spread out the risk and increase quality instead of having a potential single point of failure such as a smart phone where you try to make it do everything. You spread out the wear and tear and don't use up battery on your main device. Typically, anything that tries to do everything doesn't do any particular thing as well as something specifically engineered to do that task.Also, why run down your phone battery listening to music and running a data connection when a media player like this can be used, instead?MP3 and media players such as this are an endangered species because of the idiot consumer thinking that online or streaming is where it's at. It's not. They also think that their phone is all that they need. That's not true. There are trade-offs with everything, and no obsolute right or wrong answer. With streaming, it's convenient, and you have a massive library instantly available, but you use data requiring a connection and are completely dependent upon third parties to make the content available. What happens when your content is removed from a service (and it will) or you have DRM limitations imposed? With a physical media player, you can buy CDs, rip them as WAV files and then use both the CDs and the WAV files as backups. You can then use the WAV files to create MP3 files. No one can take those away. Sure, it's not as convenient, and there is more of an investment in time and money, but you have a higher quality and more robust, resilient library that won't go away without you wanting it to.If you really love music, and want to collect a library, this is the way to go. If you have WAV files backed up, you always have the highest quality digital files available to expert on higher bit rate formats for higher end media players, too, so it's upgrade, or future, proof.