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Sansa c200 series

portable Media Player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ7418957 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Sansa c200 series is a line of portable media players developed by SanDisk. The line consists of two models: the c240, 1 GB, the c250, 2 GB. Both models feature a microSD card slot, a 1.4-inch LCD, a built-in microphone, and an FM radio. c200 series players are available in four colors: black, red, pink, and blue.

Features

The Sansa c200 series can play MP3, WMA, and WAV audio files and reads audio file tags to display song information such as album, artist, title and album art. c200 series players automatically sort music files into a library by tag users can browse their music by artist, album, track, genre, or year. Version 2 of the c200 firmware also supports Audible's .AA format. The player also allows users to shuffle music playlists as well as create their own. C200 series players support viewing image files in either JPEG or bitmap format, and allow users to organize photos into albums and view photo slide-shows. The c200 series features a microphone built into one end of the player; users can make voice recordings that save as WAV files in the RECORD directory on the player. An FM radio is built into the c200, the player uses the headphones as a radio antenna, so reception varies.

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The public source identifies “Sansa c200 series” as portable Media Player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sansa, c200 and series.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current 213-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sansa, c200 and series providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7418957. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sansa c200 series” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.