Is there any hope at all for this player?

@marvin_martian wrote:

I can’t speak to how the Fuze+ behves at full capacity with a card. I have less than 1000 tracks on mine, and I use it on “shuffle all” mode only, occasionally with the sleep timer engaged. It really seems to sound just as good as my Zips.  So if you could graft Clip+ controls, proportionately sized, onto the Fuze+ instead of the wretched touchpad, you’d really have something.

I agree the sound quality is excellent.  Maybe with 10 000 songs, the Fuze+ is a terrible MP3 player to use.  But with much smaller amounts of music, the main thing that is holding back the Fuze+ is the touchpad.  If SanDisk releases a replacement for the Fuze+ in late August with mechanical controls, they might have a winner.