— It ignores track number. Yes, audiobook fans, when you take this out of the box it will play your audiobook tracks in random order, although by first installing a patch and then using a work-around you can eventually get the tracks to play in the right order (assuming the file names are ordered the same as the track numbers). Possibly there’s an engineer at Sandisk who can’t resist skipping to the last page in the middle of the first chapter, and wants to introduce us all to this experience. Or possibly Sandisk simply hates audiobook listeners. Or perhaps they fired everyone who knew about mp3 tags and replaced them with clueless contractors (yeah, I’m going with this one).

— There’s an inexplicable three-second delay in pausing. This is really useful if you’re a mom who likes audiobooks and has kids in the house, because now, instead of pausing instantly when you’re needed, you get to either miss three seconds of audiobook or the first three seconds of whatever your kid is saying. If this seems minor, you’ve never been interrupted 20 times in an hour, while you try to both be respectful to your family and yet listen to a really good novel. Presumably Sandisk’s next model will have a ten-second delay before pausing, and after that “pause” will be phased out entirely.

— The Clip Sport only gets detected by the computer about half the time when I plug it in. Same computer I was using the old Clip+ with. No rhyme or reason to it. Just have to keep plugging & unplugging or trying different USB ports until it gets recognized.
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— Audio files randomly stop playing partway through and claim the file is corrupted or is the wrong type or similar. Yet when I plug the player into my laptop — and, eventually, get the computer to see it — I can play that same file from the Clip Sport and listen to the file all the way through via the computer. So, clearly, there is nothing at all wrong with the file. The Clip Sport is simply petulant.

— If you adjust the volume, you will lose all ability to pause, rewind, or fast forward for several seconds until it finally drops the volume display. They really love their bigger screen at Sandisk and they want you to have to stare at it as much as possible, never mind whatever it is you’re doing at the time.

— If you accidentally bump the forward button and skip to the next track, the display will not show that you are on the next track. It will helpfully stay on the track you *used* to be on. Not to worry! After the first 40 times you realize the display doesn’t match the track you’re on, you will cotton on to the Clip Sport’s wily ways and come to see this as an endearing eccentricity.

— Does not really, in actuality, have a hard reboot. You can hold down buttons to your heart’s content, but sometimes it’s going to take you ten minutes to get it unstuck when it thinks (silly thing!) that it has a corrupt file, even though it doesn’t.

— Under the Folders section — because if you expect your tracks to play in order, you will be using the Folders section — the Audiobooks category will list a great many audiobook tracks which have actually been deleted. There’s nothing like a little nostalgia for audiobooks gone by, right? And it’s a nice challenge to hunt through a realllly long list to find the book you are currently listening to.

And now I’m off to either purchase a different brand or find some 2009 vintage Clip+ players on eBay or the like (I don’t trust the ones they’re currently producing — god only knows who’s in charge of the joint these days).

— Pro-tip: Podcasts are to be found under “Books”. Because they’re basically really tiny books, right?