The Sansa Clip+ is a great player, and is probably one of the best value/money deals the MP3 player world has ever seen. Its ability to record audio both with the stock firmware and Rockbox is a feature that perhaps not everyone cares too much about, as it’s only usable for recording via the built in microphone or the radio. Simon Frank wanted to extend this functionality and decided to add a proper 3.5mm line-in connector on his Clip+. He accomplished this by hooking into the radio chip, essentially making it so that the audio coming from the line-in connector is recorded using the radio recording feature. This makes the radio unusable, he says, though that’s possible to fix by adding a switch.
Adding a 3.5mm connector to the Clip+ does make it a bit bigger, though the one he used for his project is also more than a little bit bigger than it has to be. With this mod the Clip+ is able to record up to 16 bit, 48kHz .wav audio straight from another source, which is perhaps not as useful as it was a few years ago, but still has plenty of uses. It’s great to see the Clip series is still going strong, and it”s no more than a couple of weeks since I posted about it last, that time using it to show how the Galaxy S III’s S Pebble MP3 player accessory isn’t very impressive.
The Sansa Clip will no doubt go down in MP3 player history as one of the biggest successes the market has seen, and it has just gotten better and better over the years as firmware updates, Rockbox and the 
LODs are cables that allow you to get proper line-out from a player, circumventing some of the internal circuitry in order to provide a raw signal to an external amplifier- be it a headphone amp, car audio system or home audio system. FiiO has several of these available, and unlike most companies they don’t just make them for iDevices but also for other brands. Specifically, they have LODs for the Sansa Fuze and Sony Walkman players that use Sony’s proprietary docking port. Both cables are now available at DealExtreme, priced at 
