![]() You can use it as many times as you want, of course, but considering that you’ve paid for 1,000 songs, weeding out that many songs, and sometimes even entire channels (who can claim to like all seven genres?) will quickly make you realize that there isn’t as much “listenable” music on this device as you imagined. Even on the stations we would identify as matching our musical tastes, one out of every two or three songs had us reaching for the skip button. They’re all culled from Billboard charts, but to us that seemed like a better indicator that we would recognize the names than that we would like the music. Our SlotMusic player came preloaded with seven different channels: rock, country, urban, contemporary, alternative, workout, and chillout. SanDisk hasn’t thought to include a hold buttons, so accidentally skipping a track when you reach into your pocket to pull it out is possible, too. Accidentally click too quickly instead of holding, and you’ve irreversibly thrown away your track rather than pausing it for later. Clicking it once skips ahead a track, holding it down pauses, and clicking again resumes playback. Cell phone support is on the way, but you’ll have the same play restrictions you have on the player.įor a player with no back buttons, we found it quite silly of SanDisk to combine the play, pause and forward functions into one button. Right now, the SlotRadio cards will only work with the SlotRadio player and the Sansa Fuze. (Technically, if you really wanted to listen again, you could cycle through all 140-some-odd songs on the station to get back to it.) If you had any hope of listening to your music on a computer, you can scratch that, too. You can’t browse the contents of the card, make playlists, or even go back to listen to song you really liked and want to hear again. This is the only way you can technically “choose” songs, sort of shifting between stations. Much has been made of what you can and can’t do with songs on the SlotRadio, so allow us to clear it up: It feels exactly like listening to the radio in the car, but with a skip button to move on from the horrible songs that inevitably crop up. Though it feels intuitive, we wish the arrows were slightly easier to press down on when operating it one handed. Pressing the directional arrows to the right or left of the screen switches between seven different stations, which display on the screen as dots on a line, reminiscent of a traditional radio tuner. A three-way switch up top sets it to off, FM radio or MP3s, and a play button on the side gets tunes playing. True to the SlotMusic concept, there isn’t much to operating the player. Photo FOMO: From tiny cards to little lights, small accessories gain more oomph The tiny SanDisk 1TB microSD cards are breaking speed records ![]() A gigantic clip on that back can also be useful for running or just using it around town.Īmazon drops prices on SanDisk solid-state drives by up to $140 ![]() Since it uses an internal rechargeable battery, it’s also much lighter than the SlotMusic, which used alkaline batteries. All sides except the face are solid metal, with a satin finish that looks sharp and resists fingerprints. Like the original, SanDisk has kept build quality remarkably high for such a budget device. Owners of SanDisk’s earlier SlotMusic player will immediately feel familiar with the SlotRadio, which essentially morphs into a compact square and gets a 1.5-inch monochrome OLED screen. Who’s right? It depends on where you stand. ![]() Though SanDisk paints it as a perfect solution for tech-challenged or terminally lazy folks who can’t be bothered with managing music, skeptics will see it as a severely DRM-crippled MP3 player. Using a microSD card loaded with 1,000 songs across multiple genres, SanDisk hopes to emulate the radio with a twist: you technically own all the songs. Very little control over tracks clumsy radio controls no equalizer no hold button possible to accidentally skip tracksĪfter attempting to sway tech simpletons away from CDs and on to microSD cards with the SlotMusic player, SanDisk is back to conquer the hearts of radio listeners in 2009 with the Sansa SlotRadio.
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