i meant the database files not the partition eh but i think the concept is the same…
basicly just like a hard drive flag’s things for deletion but they still exist until actualy overwritten
so i’m guessing the index’s for Fuze+ content are sorta like an MFT record
In MTP mode you don’t have access to the underlying file system, so its not really like file table. Instead you’re just asking the software for a list of the files it thinks it has. Until it goes through and rescans its files, the results you get might be out of date. I suspect just copying a few files in MSC mode and then rebooting into MTP mode will be enough to force a rescan, although I’m not sure how smart the sandisk software is about it. Its possible it also needs to be synced to software like WMP first too.
You’d think if you selected reformat it would be reformatted like on a hard drive but…
Reformatting a partition does exactly what you would expect: erase that partition. It doesn’t reset all the info on the drive though because there is more then 1 partition, and not all of them are exposed in MTP or MSC mode. I think the only way to get access to the hidden ones is with third party software like rockbox, or using the recovery mode + imxtools. This is intentional, the firmware tries to prevent you from messing with its internals by preventing USB access.
It has been so long since the last firmware updated, I am starting to wonder if SanDisk is working on frimware updates or features. It could be that what we have is all we are going to get.
If this firmware is all we are going to get then I will start looking for another MP3 player. I bought this mainly for audiobooks which the box advertised as doing. What a misleading statement. The player itself is solid and would work well if it had some decent firmware. I am sure all of you that has bought one of these know of the many problems so I won’t go through that but I believe that most could be fixable. It seems that Sandisk has forgot about their customers.
I am unable to download the Sansa Media Converter.
I have a Sansa Fuze+ with 4GB of hard disk space. I downloaded the firmware updater last year and updated to 02.38.06 and downloaded the Media Converter just fine.
Recently I reformatted my laptop so I lost the media converter, so I downloaded the firmware updater (currently it says 1.304 while my Sansa is already 02.38.06) again. But when I try to update again, it says that the update service is not available.
I am unable to download the Sansa Media Converter.
I have a Sansa Fuze+ with 4GB of hard disk space. I downloaded the firmware updater last year and updated to 02.38.06 and downloaded the Media Converter just fine.
Recently I reformatted my laptop so I lost the media converter, so I downloaded the firmware updater (currently it says 1.304 while my Sansa is already 02.38.06) again. But when I try to update again, it says that the update service is not available.
1.304 is the Updater’s version number, not your player’s firmware. You already have the latest firmware version (02.38.06) so no, the Updater won’t find anything newer.
You don’t need the Sansa Media Converter. You can use any converter program you find fits your needs the best. A lot of people like video4fuze.
Bottom of page under Alternative method I downloaded two files, the bootloader and the rockbox build.
Next I connected my Fuze to my machine, then extracted the downloaded zips to the root of the Fuze.
When I restarted the Fuze I had a menu to explore. I went into Database and allowed it to build.
I shuffled all my songs and started playing.
Amazingly, the device turns off and on within seconds. Awesome surprise. I managed to crash the device when I attempted to explore the radio function. Held down the power button, everything came right back. I suspect Rockbox will just get more and more awesome, and the wait isn’t likely to drag on. It’s usable and probably improving by the day.
Rockbox for the Fuze Plus is still in development but it seems quite usable to me for listening to music. Stop holding your breath on Sansa and load up Rockbox. I’m glad I did.
For my Fuze+, I keep the expansion memory limited to 4GB; refresh times are pretty fast, under 30 seconds at the most following transfers of housekeeping tasks. Your refresh time is shorted using MTP mode (the device also limits database refresh to sessions having an actual file transfer, rather than every time it’s plugged in).
Clean images and ID3 tags speeds up the process quite a bit.
Rockbox has the cool function of updating the database in the background, a functionality I’d personally welcome in the original firmware. One can always dream…
I was overly enthusiastic about Rockbox a few posts back. After using it for awhile I generally boot into Sansa mode. Hopefully Rockbox improves enough to be better than the Sansa firmware. At the present time that’s not the case. Charging doesn’t work right with Rockbox, and usability is limited.
I don’t know where Rockbox for the Fuze Plus is discussed but to answer the question, am I sure about charging and useability, my experience has been that charging is incredibly slow. I haven’t reached a hundred percent with the wire attached while booted into Rockbox. And I can’t say I’ve experimented with charging enough to comment definitively.
While using the player booted into Rockbox the touchpad is difficult to figure out, I’ve had the experience of menus scrolling virtually out of control, looping into sub-menus and general mayhem. I definitely prefer to charge booted into Sansa, and in general I prefer Sansa. Hopefully Rockbox development continues with regular updates and quickly surpasses 2.38.06. For the time being, in my opinion, Rockbox for the Fuze Plus is interesting but not ready for primetime consumption. Not that it claims to be either.
I have no problems with the firmware, but, i wouldn’t mind it going by the album artist under artist, instead of going by the individual songs artist. Because, I have a few albums that are various artist, but under the artist menu all the songs are put in their own artist selection.
For example: I have Punk Goes Pop Volume 4, which is a Various Artist album. But instead of the player putting it in Various artist it has them all separate. Like the August Burns Red selection has just the one song off of Punk Goes Pop. But I’d like it to be under various artists. I want to know who did the song, but I want all of the songs to be together in the artist menu.
I think if the player went off of the “album artist” instead of the songs artist it would fix the problem.