Sansa e260R every time i turn it on it says your subscription has expired connect to pc. i did that and nothing happened and there is a little red dot with a - in the middle of it whats that about. please i really need someone help ASAP.

If your device can play some songs before, then it appears "...subscription..." meaning that Songs are protected or expired. You used Rhapsody to sync songs before? If so, trial expired or after 30 days the songs expired. Therefore, you need connect your device to Rhapsody do subscription.
Good luck

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My wife had the same issue. With hers we just reconnected the player to the pc and opened the napster or whatever program used to load the music. Once they synced up the message went away.

I actually had that same problem. You got it from Best Buy, correct? What happens is the trial for the Best Buy Rhapsody downloads expired. That basically means that all of the music files you downloaded from there have been locked and you can no longer listen until you purchase a rhapsody subscription. What I did when that happened to me was to delete all of the songs and just reload everything. It's rather inconvenient but it does work. For future reference, it's a lot easier to just never try out that trial because erasing it is quite a challenge.

This player is a little goofy. The normal method to synchronize is through Windows Media Player. But if you go for the Rhapsody subscription, you have to also sync the device through Rhapsody.

-Tha Mp3 Doctor

Here's the deal with WMA files - once your subscription expires (or really,  the license on the WMA file expires) - you will have to renew your music service subscription or the song will no longer play on your device. 
Use Mp3 format songs - they'll never give you this problem.

I have the same problem as well, if you downloaded your songs through a subscription service such as Rhapsody, you may have to connect the Connect to the PC with Rhapsody running. Sansa suggests connecting to one of Yahoo!'s services with the WiFi. This usually works for me, but it hasnt been recently.

Red Dot with dash means that your subscription (Rhapsody) has expired and there may be music that cannot be played on your player. A green dot signifies subscription OK

When you first synced your Sansa Clip to the initial computer, you probably synced it (knowingly or not) with a music subscription service such as Napster or Yahoo. If the subscription has since expired, you will get this message. Alternatively, if you tried connecting the Sansa player to another computer which does not have the aforementioned music service, the Sansa player wants to verify that your subscription to the service is still good. The best solution is to hook the player up to the original computer, and resync it with Napster or whatever music service you were using by opening that music service's program. Most of the time, when you connect the Sansa player to Windows XP, Windows will prompt you: Windows will ask what you want to do with the device. Instead of "Take No Action," just sync the player with Napster (or whatever music service you have a subscription to) - Windows will give you this option. If you music service subscription has expired, a more deatiled process may be required which falls outside of the scope of this solution. Try this suggestion first - if it fails, e-mail me back (don't send me a personal e-mail - reply through the FixYa website - I want documentation of everything).

-Tha Mp3 Doctor

Check your manual or contact makers web site - there are many variations on types of players