Fuze+ General Information

The Sansa® Fuze™+ MP3 player gives you more player for less money. From its sleek and thin styling to its invisible touch control, the Sansa Fuze+ MP3 player delivers a great user experience and lets you do more than just play music files. Add a blank microSD™ card to expand your own music library or an optional slotRadio™ card for an instant library of songs - even listen to FM radio with the ability to pause or record stations or record your voice with the built-in mic. Sansa Fuze+ MP3 player is the newest in a long line of award-winning players from the inventor of flash memory cards.

Specifications/Features:

Capacities**: 4GB, 8GB, 16GB

2.4" bright QVGA screen (320 x 240, 30 FPS) LCD screen

Audio formats: MP3, WMA, Secure WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Audible, Podcasts

Video formats: MPEG-4***, H.264, WMV and Flip Video™***

Photo formats: JPEG and BMP; photo formats can be further extended with Sansa Media Converter PC software download∞, enabling TIFF, GIF, and PNG formats

Digital FM Tuner with pause and record functions

Rechargeable battery lasts up to 24 hours for audio playback and 5 hours of video playback†

Hi-speed micro-USB 2.0 port

Expandable microSDTM card slot and microSDHCTM card slot

Ready for slotRadio™ & slotMusic™ memory cards

Sleek industrial design with “invisible” capacitive touch control and highly intuitive graphical user interface

The Sansa® Fuze™+ MP3 player gives you more player for less money. From its sleek and thin styling to its invisible touch control, the Sansa Fuze+ MP3 player delivers a great user experience and lets you do more than just play music files. Add a blank microSD™ card to expand your own music library or an optional slotRadio™ card for an instant library of songs - even listen to FM radio with the ability to pause or record stations or record your voice with the built-in mic. Sansa Fuze+ MP3 player is the newest in a long line of award-winning players from the inventor of flash memory cards.

Specifications/Features:
Capacities**: 4GB, 8GB, 16GB

2.4" bright QVGA screen (320 x 240, 30 FPS) LCD screen

Audio formats: MP3, WMA, Secure WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Audible, Podcasts

Video formats: MPEG-4***, H.264, WMV and Flip Video™***

Photo formats: JPEG and BMP; photo formats can be further extended with Sansa Media Converter PC software download∞, enabling TIFF, GIF, and PNG formats

Digital FM Tuner with pause and record functions

Rechargeable battery lasts up to 24 hours for audio playback and 5 hours of video playback†

Hi-speed micro-USB 2.0 port

Expandable microSDTM card slot and microSDHCTM card slot

Ready for slotRadio™ & slotMusic™ memory cards

Sleek industrial design with “invisible” capacitive touch control and highly intuitive graphical user interface

Colors:

The Sansa® Fuze™+ MP3 player is offered in 5 different colors: Black (“Solstice”), Blue (“Electra”), Red (“Flamenco”), Purple (“Zinfandel”), and White (“Birch”). Color availability varies by device capacity as summarized below.

Sansa® Fuze™+ MP3 player Color-Capacity Matrix:

4GB Black Blue Red  

8GB Black Blue Purple White

16GB Black  

Product Capacities & Playback:

Rechargeable battery lasts up to 24 hours for audio playback and 5 hours of video playback†. The number of songs and photos that the device holds varies by capacity, (amongst other factors) as summarized below:

                                                                           4 GB**                      8 GB**                  16 GB**

Number of Songs†† (3.5 min)                 Up to 1000              Up to 2,000        Up to 4,000

Number of Photos†† (5 MP)                     Up to 2,400             Up to 4,800        Up to 9,600

Videos†† (MPEG-4 video@ 512 Kbps)   Up to 12                  Up to 24              Up to 48

Minimum System Requirements:

Windows® XP SP2, Mac OS® X10.3, and Linux (Mass Storage Class only)

Windows® Media Player 10 (for playlist creation and synchronizing library and device)

Internet access (for downloading content, updating the device’s firmware, and obtaining the Sansa® Media Converter (SMC) software∞

CD-ROM drive (for installation of bundled applications)

Package Contents:

Sansa® Fuze™+ MP3 player

micro-USB 2.0 data transfer cable

Earphones

Quick Start Guide

Rhapsody® software CD

Notes:

* Card(s) sold separately.

** 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. Some capacity not available for data storage.

*** Requires Sansa Media Converter via Sansa Updater. See kb.sandisk.com

† Based on continuous audio playback at 128 kbps MP3; video playback at 512 kbps/MPEG-4, battery life and performance may vary depending upon usage and settings; battery not replaceable.

†† Approximations: results will vary based on file size, resolution, compression, bit rate, content, host device, pre-loaded files and other factors. See www.sandisk.com.

∞ Sansa® Media Converter (SMC) software available via Sansa Updater at kb.sandisk.com.

Requires synchronization of Sansa® Fuze™+ MP3 player with an Internet-connected computer.

© 2010 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. SanDisk, the SanDisk logo and Sansa are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the U.S. and other countries. The Sansa logo, Sansa Fuze and slotRadio are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation. slotMusic is licensed by SLOTmedia Group LLC. microSD and microSDHC are trademarks of SD-3C, LLC. Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. Rhapsody is a registered trademark of Rhapsody International, Inc. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective holders.

Still need a media converter?  ah come on, that’s lame. :angry:   Takes way too much time. that’s the one envy I had about my coworkers ipod.  She could convert a movie and put it on her ipod immediately.  I had to conver the movie and then convert again to put on my Fuze.

The SMC is NOT required to convert videos for the Fuze+. Any video converter of your choice can be used. Here are the video file requirements for Fuze+

**Video format for Fuze+

File container: *.mp4

Video CODEC: H.264/AVC Baseline Level 2.0

Bit rate: 1,000 Kbps**

**30 FPS

Width: 320 pixels

Height: 240 pixels

Audio CODEC: AAC version 4 LC

Bit Rate: 192 Kbps

Channels: 2 (stereo)**

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slotmonsta

Wait…no SMC necessary? Are we talking drag and drop for videos…[I always thought that using the SMC was the achilles heal of the sansa line for videos]…because if we are talking drag and drop…this.player.will.rock.

@sansamilla wrote:

Wait…no SMC necessary? Are we talking drag and drop for videos…[I always thought that using the SMC was the achilles heal of the sansa line for videos]…because if we are talking drag and drop…this.player.will.rock.

What part of " The SMC is NOT required to convert videos for the Fuze+. Any video converter of your choice can be used. Here are the video file requirements for Fuze+" says drag & drop?

I hope the firmware is better than the firmware used for the Sansa View. Looking forward to the larger screen

I obviously meant use whatever converter you want, then drap and drop. Unless you know a way to install files onto the player through osmosis., ? If you do, please let me know, cause that would really be awesome.

j/k

@sansamilla wrote:

I obviously meant use whatever converter you want, then drap and drop. Unless you know a way to install files onto the player through osmosis., ? If you do, please let me know, cause that would really be awesome.

 

j/k

Maybe the Great Carnac can do that . . .

:smileyvery-happy:

I was confused because it said

Video formats: MPEG-4***, H.264, WMV and Flip Video™***

then

*** Requires Sansa Media Converter via Sansa Updater. See kb.sandisk.com

If we use a different converter (for exmaple, I’ve bought one) that converts it, then is it not required? 

Or will the SMC do the same job as any other video converter now? 

Or do we need to use the SMC for the MPEG-4 and Flip Video only? 

very confused here… please help…

Although this Fuze+ looks really great. 

SMC is really only recommended not required. The reason it says that in the marketing material is a legal thing because the Fuze+ does not support most video in it’s native resolution. Conversion is required but SMC is not actually required. You can use any converter you choose as long as you convert the file to the specs required.

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slotmonsta  

I just noticed, in the specifications, there are no case dimensions quoted.

Bob  :dizzy_face:

@neutron_bob wrote:

I just noticed, in the specifications, there are no case dimensions quoted.

 

Bob  :dizzy_face:

http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/Fuze/Questions-on-the-Fuze/m-p/187527/highlight/true#M27

:smiley:

Will the manual be available online soon?  I’d like to look through it.

The Manual is USELESS! There is more info on the website demos. I got mine yesterday had to play for awile to get the hang of it.

corky

Are you sure it isn’t just the Quick User’s Guide?  That’s a barebones guide and gives just enough info to get you started.  A full manual will be available online.  It’ll be listed here

http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/User-guides-Firmware-Software/User-Manuals-for-all-Sansa-Products/td-p/185344

with all the other players’ manuals.  Sandisk’s manuals aren’t 100% complete, but it does give alot of useful info.

It is The Quick User’s Guide but thats all I got.

corky

@corky wrote:

The Manual is USELESS! There is more info on the website demos. I got mine yesterday had to play for awile to get the hang of it.

 

corky

Yeah, these devices are sooooo complicated, aren’t they? :stuck_out_tongue:

@tapeworm wrote:

 


@corky wrote:

The Manual is USELESS! There is more info on the website demos. I got mine yesterday had to play for awile to get the hang of it.

 

corky


Yeah, these devices are sooooo complicated, aren’t they? :stuck_out_tongue:

 

I think one of the bigger questions is, does it support full gapless playback?

@d_headshot wrote:

I think one of the bigger questions is, does it support full gapless playback?

Too late . . . somebody already beat you to it:

http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/Fuze/Sansa-Fuze/m-p/187531/highlight/true#M28