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After a great experience with the Connect, I wanted to give another Sansa product a try and borrowed a Sansa View. By comparison, it doesn’t hold a candle.   One of the cool features about the Connect was the external speaker, which the View was lacking. I never thought I would “need” something so superfluous until I didn’t have it! Even though it’s not very loud, and not a great quality amplifier, it was still kind of nifty in the car (whereas earphones can block out traffic sounds and wind up being dangerous to your driving).   One of the most frustrating problems I encountered with the View was its inability to play some files. When I first started using the View, I filled it with all the same songs as I had the Connect. Every few songs or so, I would try to click forward to the next song and the screen would freeze for a minute or two (which is an eternity when you’re running on the treadmill waiting for your song because the only sound keeping you company is your sneakers pounding on the conveyor belt) and then a little pink message window would pop up saying…
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