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Posted on Dec 24, 2008

Hi my sansa shaker wont play music

It does not play music
i put in songs and i put the chip in the mp3 and it makes the opening sound wheni hold play
but does not play Windows Media Player says the music has been downloaded to the Shaker, but I turn it on and it says "uh oh". I deleted the music it came with. Could that affect anything?

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  • juleepassey Dec 24, 2008

    I tried 2 different SD cards and both say they have the songs added but the shaker itself will not play the songs. I also deleted the origional song on the card. I am frustrated because tomorrow is Christmas and my daughter will not have songs on her Shaker.

  • Anonymous Dec 25, 2008

    I am having the same exact problem..and yes I too am desperate for help because tomorrow is Christmas and I have three of these doing the same thing. Three daughters who will have to be without one of there very special presents. UGGG. Please someone must know how to fix the problem...?



  • Anonymous Dec 25, 2008

    meeee tooooooooooo....i am going to kill this stupid toyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!111

  • Anonymous Dec 25, 2008

    Meeeee toooooooooooooo..... III aaaaaaammmmmmmm ggggoooooingggggggggggggg to killllllllllll this stuppidddd toyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous Dec 30, 2008

    My Sansa Shaker worked for exactly 2 hours, and then it started doing weird stuff - It make the starting drumroll when you turn it on, but will not play anything beyond that. I even tried changing the battery, to no avail. This is a very low quality toy.

  • Mo Smith
    Mo Smith Jul 23, 2022

    Can't leave battery in when using USB data cable. The USB cable gives energy to sansa shaker with out battery. Leaving battery in is touch energy on the sansa player cause damage to sansa shaker.

  • Mo Smith
    Mo Smith Jul 23, 2022

    Check the sd card compatibility. A sdhc card might work not sdhx. I know a 2gb card will work on a1gb sansa shaker. I don't know maximum flash drive memory the sansa shanker will allow before it does not work properly since the manual does not say it.

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The Sansa Shaker ONLY plays MP3's, I downloaded a bunch of .wma files and kept getting the uh-oh so I put on an mp3 I had a voila! it played. Bummer though. Guess I gotta figure out how to convert my music files for my daughter, or pitch this thing and buy one that will play any media file.

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