Fuze+ Reviews

Oddly, he also praises a “new” feature that sounds very much like Auto-Detect mode. :dizzy_face:

On my Fuze the only rating I have is Ilke it, or I don’t want to hear that now, and maybe never.  I downloaded 6 Gb of music from the SXSW web site and there was a of of stuff I don’t wish to hear, YMMV of course so I delete as I go along, it just takes a second.

 I put audio books in an audiobook folder I created and made certain they would play consecutively.

I don’t care about folders for music I just put the player on random and repeat.  With 2500 tunes onboard I am always surprised at what I hear.

I agree, I’m a loyal user of older Sandisk MP3 players but this is impossible to use and control.  You mean I can take it back?  Oh I pray I can…  just want to hear my songs in the order that I loaded them.  Maybe cos I’m no longer a teenager.

I think people should read the Fuze+ forum instead of reviews that are out there in the net. I think they would change their mind in minutes if not in seconds. :smiley:
It’s a pity that this good gadget has so many bugs.

I was looking to buy one of these as a good deal in the local tech-store, but when I saw the problem with voice and fm recordings in this forum I changed my mind as I need this player function very much.

Just to give a different opinion here, I’m loving my Fuze+, it’s working quite well for how I use it.  I was thrilled that I could listen to podcasts at a faster speed, and that it also includes radio with good reception.  For some reason, my stereo’s do not get my favourite station very well inside my house, but the Fuze+ can :)   The only thing I’m waiting for is listening to music by folders, and a bit more consistancy with the touch sensitivity, though that is mostly working well for me.  I don’t have any music subscriptions so I don’t have to worry about the rhapsody type issues that many seem to be having.  Oh, I’d also like some more accessories like cases.

By the way, do you have a problem with continuous voice recording like the other owners of this player?

AnythingButIpod review

maybe you are interested in this review…

My Review: A great player lacking FLAC support. In any usable way, shape, or form. So, correct that and it might meet my needs.

OK.Want to share the pictures of newly opened fuze+

http://postimage.org/gallery/8k8u6wxxk/f4d332d1/

My review: 

Completely acceptable as an iPod Touch replacement.  Get a low capacity model and enjoy.

Completely unusable for any music collecton over 20 Gig… a 16 Gig model with a 32 SD card is a pipe dream unless you have 30 gig of pictures.   The firmware is simply not ready for the capacities at which these devices are reated.

Where are the reviews?These are’nt reviews.

@bryan88 wrote:

Where are the reviews?These are’nt reviews.

Anythingbutipod has a great official review here.

A snip of its conclusion:

@Andreas Ødegård wrote:

The Fuze+ is not an easy player to judge objectively. On one hand, the design is good, possible storage capacity is excellent, menus are very nice looking and there are plenty of features for such a player. On the other hand. the controls are so beyond bad that it makes me want to cry.

New to the forum, but I just wanted to add my comments on the Sansa mp3 player. I recently bought the 8gb white model with a 16gb sdhc card. My previous mp3 player was the Sony NWZ-A845 which is beautiful, but totally crippled by the EU Volume limit.

Anyway onto the Sansa Fuze+ with lastest firmware (02.38.06). In my opinion the sound is more than equal to the Sony with a nice wide soundstage. The screen is vibrant and the menu system is fine. The touch pad is responsive, perhaps a tab over responsive, but on this issue my cell phone is touch, so I’m quite used to this by now. The size is good, weight feels right too.

I really like this player — it’s neat. So I’m very pleased with it so far. I can finally enjoy, and hear my music without a volume cap.

@avanze wrote:

 

I really like this player — it’s neat. So I’m very pleased with it so far. I can finally enjoy, and hear my music without a volume cap.

 

As long as you don’t set it to Europe as the region, otherwise it will be subject to that volume restriction as well.

Welcome to the forum! I’m glad that you like your new Fuze+

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@tapeworm wrote:

As long as you don’t set it to Europe as the region, otherwise it will be subject to that volume restriction as well.

 

Welcome to the forum! I’m glad that you like your new Fuze+

Thanks Tapeworm. 

Yes, I believe this little sansa fuze and I will live happily together. :smiley: 

My old Fuze broke, so I asked my son for a Fuze+ for Fathers Day. I figured, “Hey…it’s got a “+” after the name, so it’s going to be better than the original Fuze!”

What a mistake.

Even after updating the firmware, this thing is horrible to use. The controls on the Fuze were great…not so on the Fuze+. The user interface is horrible.

I just spent ten minutes trying to use it and am ready to throw it away. It took forever to turn on, and would not unlock when I needed to turn the volume down. 

Had I known what a piece of junk this thing is, I would have just gotten a Fuze again. 

I guess I’ll set it aside and save up for a better player.

This may not change your overall opinion of the product, but the LOCK feature was changed in the 1st firmware update. The manual may not have been updated to reflect this. You can now lock and unlock it using a temporary press on the power button.

The lock feature is not a problem when it works.

I was listening to some music the other day and had it locked. Needing to adjust the volume, I tried to unlock it and it wouldn’t.

I truly hate this player and miss my old Fuze  :cry:

While trying to listen to an audio book, the chapters got shuffled around a bit, and the rather complex story line, with at least 5 different locales,. and now I’m totally lost & disgusted.  I’ve come to grips with the fact that I’ll have to read the actual book, and that after a few weeks, just so I can try to flush the mixed-up story-line out of my head.

I bought an Ipod Shuffle last month, which was worse than the Fuze+, and am back to the Fuze+, but only as a music player.  No more audio books on the Fuze+.

  1. Load your audiobook into MP3Tag (free software)

  2. set “genre” tag to <blank> (or at least something other than “audiobook”

  3. make sure track tags are in the correct order

  4. append track numbers to the beginning of the filenames

  5. save everything

  6. copy those files to the “Podcast” folder on the Fuze+

Everything will work.