[TriLUG] portable music player?

[John Mitchell]

I know the stock Sansa C250 can only see a 2 Gb microSD card ( 16 bit Fat?).
The RockBox modded one will see mach larger ones, I have several 4 Gb ones I
use, the Sansa FAQ says 32 Gb will work.

john mitchell

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Dwain Sims <dsims at bayleafnc.org> wrote:

> I bought my daughter a Sansa player a few years ago and we had a major
> gripe
> with it.  It was a 2GB player with an Micro-SD expansion slot.  She wanted
> to take a movie for a school trip, and we had captured a few good titles
> off
> of TCM on our Replay.  This will be easy I thought,  I bought her a 4GB
> Micro-SD and copied the movie to the card.  Plugged it in and nothing.  The
> Sansa's firmware was crippled in such a way that it would not look for
> movies on the card no matter what.  I later heard (not confirmed) that this
> was a DRM issue.  In fact, the Sansa will see nothing other than MP3s on
> the
> expansion card.  Sorta defeats the purpose in my book.
>
> Now I do not know if the current crop of Sansa devices still have this ugly
> behavior, but its enough that I did not even consider that brand when
> buying
> some new ones for my younger kids this Christmas.
>
> Have a happy holiday....
>
> Dwain
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