CarlSeibert Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 (edited) Bonnie is participating in a charity secret Santa at her work, It's pretty swinging, actually. Each employee gets to expense $100 for gifts for some disadvantaged kid. Bonnie's kid is a 13 year old girl. She wants some typical "girl stuff" and an MP3 player. So, we need a circa $50 MP3 player. A quick perusal of Amazon suggests the Sandisk Sansa. But I have no idea what features are valued by the typical 13 year old girl. I do notice that the Sansa doesn't appear to support AAC. Is that a big problem? Do kids buy music from iTunes? Is 8 GB big enough? Would 4 be enough? (4 GB Sansas come in cool colors. The 8 GB one seems to be only in Model-T Ford black.) What about the FM radio feature? Do kids care about that today? Does anybody? I assume that a kids could care less about a Micro SD expansion slot. On Amazon, there seems to be Sansas and totally no-name Chinese models at this price point. Is there another brand we should look at? Didn't iRiver make a bunch of players in this price range at one time?http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Sansa-Clip-Player-Black/dp/B002MAPS6W/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1416622797&sr=8-5&keywords=mp3+player Paging anybody who knows a 13 year old..... Edited November 22, 2014 by CarlSeibert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 +1 for the Sansa cliip ziphttp://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SanDisk_Sansa#Sansa_Clip_Zip Color screen, AAC support She (or her friends, eh Barbie?) can rockbox it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crappyjones123 Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 I used to have one of those Carl. Worked well for an mp3 player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlSeibert Posted November 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 Ah! Grahame's link carried the day. The current model seems to be the Sandisk Clip Sport, which is cheaper, comes in colors at 8 GB, and plays AAC. Weird that Amazon is still selling old stock of the model before the model before last at higher prices than the current one. The lack of Rockbox-ability, maybe. No worries, I'm pretty sure Barbie don't Rockbox ) Thanks guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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