I am a big old fat geek that recently got into doing...(GASP! I have many MP3 capable products and reasons why I am very fond of this little one for my new found effort.

I have the following list of products and have tried my: Nexus S (too big and heavy for running, no physical buttons)i Pod touch 4th Gen (Big, expensive at the storage size i wanted and no buttons for music controls)i Pod Nano 4th Gen (little, has a clip, but why the hell can't they include buttons?

Bam 20-36GB of storage, insanely small and still clocks in under 0. As for the other areas, the stop watch works like a stop watch... Not a huge thing and if you are using a polar watch or at a gym, the machine you are on will do just as well and be more convenient. From my experience, it works just fine if you are in an area with good recption.

Dislikes:*UPDATE* MM works on updated firmware...still broken on stock firmware.

- Turn the Clip Zip on, Select your language and region preference - Once its back to the main menu, head to "Settings" "Info", and verify the "Version" is now "x".

Sansa Clip Zip MP3 Player Firmware San Disk Sansa Clip Zip Firmware San Disk Sansa Clip Zip Player Firmware Sansa Clip Zip Firmware San Disk MP3 Player It is highly recommended to always use the most recent driver version available.

My search for a portable music player was no exception.

- Device hangs up after finished playing special mp3 files, which contain CRC error at the end of frames - Recently Added doesn’t update Rhapsody transferred tracks - Artist Info page doesn’t display for Rhapsody transferred tracks - UI issues in Hebrew mode - New recording file sequence does not work correctly when previous recording got deleted - Text scrolling direction in Hebrew and Arabic is not correct - FM reception strength is not so good - Remove any external card from the Clip Zip before performing firmware update - Ensure your battery is 50% full. - Extract the file from the file you just downloaded into a folder on your computer.

- Once extracted, drag the file to the root directory of your Sansa Clip Zip.

I'd used the stock firmware for a while and had no feature issues with it. Pick the correct mountpoint for the player, click Install: It'll ask for stock firmware, browse to (which I had downloaded during stock firmware update, described in the beginning of this article). Switching from default theme: Rockbox includes lots of user contribued themes for the Sansa Clip After trying a couple, settled on Yellow Bar.

Then I noticed the device occasionally freezing, seemingly when coming across certain music files.