My Sansa Fuze+ wont charge or even been recognized by PC

Having the same problem and have tried the same solutions.  My player will charge battery via the usb port but computer still will not recognize the player is connected!!!  Came searching for solution here on forums.  Help!!!  Why hasn’t anyone offered any solutions to this problem???  Have had my Sansa Fuze for about 1 1/2 yrs only used it to listen to music 4 or 5 times.  Have never dropped or exposed the player to extreem temps.  It’s kept on shelf in box so can’t be that it’s been broken or abused.  Decided to add more music but can’t  because computer won’t recognize the player.  Can’t even update it.  Finally purchased a SD card and loaded it and have my music back onto player but would like to load my music directly to player so can find my music files in folders or albums instead of all scrambled as individual files.  My player is out of warranty so can’t be replaced.  I have even purchased a new usb cord for the player but still having same problem.