Just wanted to say that I've just signed up for the Sansa forum, and I'm a great fan of the Sansa clip. I want to be able to use it to the best advantage for audiobooks and would appreciate all the input I could get on that.

Bill's Sansa clip gets him through the North Carolina hiking trails.

Hi there,
just came across this thread (it's not that old), and I have the same trouble:

We already own a Sansa Clip 8GB, it works great. Then we bought a second one (also 8GB): Same problem as described, Audiobooks won't skip (fast forward/rewind works). The strange thing: The same Audiobooks work fine on the other Sansa Clip (same firmware version). Also strange: Skipping works with music folders, so it can't be a hardware fault. However, we discovered this last bit only recently, so we already had it returned and got another Sansa Clip 8GB (the third one). Again, skipping doesn't work. I'm suspecting that something with the files is wrong, but I'm puzzled by the finding that they work fine on our first Clip. They all have the same age, our first clip is just a couple of weeks old, and they all came from the same vendor (Amazon), so I'll guess it is the same batch.

Any clues anybody?

Thanks a lot,
Andre

I've got a lot of audiobooks that are just MP3 files with no tags. The file names are in paragraph/section order.

I've noticed that two or three players - my clip included - have a certain amount of trouble with this, but if I use a tag editor and create volume (disk) numbers and track numbers automatically from the file names they will play in the correct sequence.

Worst of all worlds is to have some files with MP3 tags and not others, or multiple ones (e.g. the start of each chapter) called track 1.