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    SanDisk Sansa Clip+ MP3 Player Keeps the Bizarre slotRadio Dream Alive

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    How SanDisk's slotRadio Turned a Good Idea Into a Horrible Product

    Sansa slotRadio Comes With 1,000 Songs Preloaded
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    Image of frigg frigg
    08/31/09

    In reply to SanDisk Sansa Clip+ MP3 Player Keeps the Bizarre slotRadio Dream Alive
    With a name like Clip+, I was expecting a more creative and user-friendly form of DRM, something to really make me want to pull the trigger on this lusty gadget.

    Like every time you want to listen to it, you have to stick your finger into the slot and let it "clip" off a sliver of fingernail in order to confirm a proper DNA match before the music plays.
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    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    08/31/09

    In reply to SanDisk Sansa Clip+ MP3 Player Keeps the Bizarre slotRadio Dream Alive
    If anyone is wondering who buys these things, it's people like me...

    I buy them online for around $20 bucks, load them with an hour or two of music and use it when I workout. After 6-10 months of being dropped, splashed, stepped on, and humidified by a heavy sweater, they eventually crumble and corrode away.

    Then I just buy a new one without shedding a single tear.

    I couldn't really care less about the other jibber-jabber.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    08/31/09

    @DustyButt™: Also consider that there are millions of people outside America who can't or don't want to pay $200 for an iPod.
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    Image of Hawk24 Hawk24
    08/31/09

    In reply to SanDisk Sansa Clip+ MP3 Player Keeps the Bizarre slotRadio Dream Alive
    Those are the worst brand of mp3 players EVER
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    01/08/09

    In reply to How SanDisk's slotRadio Turned a Good Idea Into a Horrible Product
    And it's ugly too!
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    Image of Bon5ai Bon5ai
    01/08/09

    In reply to How SanDisk's slotRadio Turned a Good Idea Into a Horrible Product
    Interesting business model, could work if the option to buy he song, again, is very cheap like 25 cents.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/08/09

    @Bon5ai: That's called a jukebox. I don't want to have to pay to listen to songs I've already bought.
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    01/08/09

    In reply to How SanDisk's slotRadio Turned a Good Idea Into a Horrible Product


    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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    Image of Kaspir Kaspir
    01/08/09

    In reply to How SanDisk's slotRadio Turned a Good Idea Into a Horrible Product
    So what does the arrow pointing left in the pic do? Sandisk is trying to trick us!
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    Image of Adam Frucci Adam Frucci
    01/08/09

    @Kaspir: Those arrows are just for skipping through pre-made playlists, that's it. There's a skip song button on the other side of the device.
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    Image of ilikedachacha ilikedachacha
    01/08/09

    In reply to How SanDisk's slotRadio Turned a Good Idea Into a Horrible Product
    a few years ago this mighta been an awesome deal, but with p2p sharing and 2 gb sansa mp3 players for $30 this seems kinda lame
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    Image of hexydes hexydes
    01/08/09

    @ilikedachacha: But that's "illegal"! Wouldn't you feel a lot better about yourself if you paid $40 for 1,000 songs that someone else picked out for you, that you don't really own, can't use on other devices, and can barely use on the one device? Wouldn't you feel better knowing that roughly $0.14 cents of that $40 went towards the artists! (who then had to pay $0.13 cents back in recording fees, travel fees, music video fees, etc.)


    Remember, the RIAA is just trying to do what it can to get by. I don't think they're asking for too much. (of course with one of their head lawyers soon to be at the top of our justice system, they should be able to ask for an awful lot more now)

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    01/09/09

    @hexydes:


    in my experience, 'illegal' and 'immoral' aren't always the same thing. And i know which one i care about more.

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    Image of b0bcat b0bcat
    01/08/09

    In reply to How SanDisk's slotRadio Turned a Good Idea Into a Horrible Product
    Step 1: greed
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    01/08/09

    @b0bcat: I believe it's "cut a hole in a box".
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    01/08/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Or "Steal Underpants."
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    01/08/09

    @badhatharry finally got his Eastern Orthodox Christmas tree: Shhhhh! Don't give away the business model!
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    01/08/09

    @Underpants Gnome: Seriously? That's your user name? Way to swoop in for the punch-line win. I feel like I just got an assist with Michael Jordan.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    01/07/09

    In reply to Sansa slotRadio Comes With 1,000 Songs Preloaded
    If it weren't for bad taste, I'd have no taste at all!
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