Sansa Fuze Firmware Update

Should start my first post by saying I love my Fuze and have been very happy with it since I bought it. As far as the update, I appreciate that you fixed the replay gain bug so it handles replay gains beginning with a ‘+’ sign properly (which strangly isn’t mentioned in your list of bug fixes). But as others have mentioned, when I select Replay Gain in the music options, either the screen goes white and it reboots, or it just freezes up. I have V2 of the firmware. Hope this can get fixed soon.

Whilst I appreciate the device is still receiving firmware updates which is always welcome, I can’t help but feel underwhelmed with this update. I was really hoping for gapless, I guess it’s time to look into Rockbox then…

A really horrible firmware update that seems to affect version 2 owners.

After replay gain problems, the device just froze at the welcome logo screen. Would not connect to the PC and was not responsive at all. :angry:

Forced a MSC connection to PC and downgraded the firmware to 02.02.26. All problems magically went away and I got my beloved Fuze back. :smileyvery-happy:

Will leave a good thing alone.

I can confirm Replay Gain issues on my V2 with the new firmware.

After the upgrade, going to Settings -> Music Options -> Replay Gain caused a white screen lock… I’ve never had one before under any condition. Upon further investigation, I found that I could access the menu while playing music, but the Pre-Gain was blank and only contained a visible value for 0.0 dB… the other 7 values show up blank.

I have Replay Gain information added to most of my music, and it seems like Replay Gain is constantly active regardless of the setting. I haven’t ABX’d it yet (I’m definitely aware of the placebo effect), but I have played albums mastered loud vs. dynamic, and there appears to be no volume discrepancy between them with this firmware.

I can confirm the replay gain bug as well with v2 (when the mode/pre-gain setting is selected, the devices freezes; I didn’t get a white screen, though, the sanza just froze).  Good to hear the replay gain bug involving gain values with a “+” was fixed (I use winamp to calculate replay gain values), though I didn’t test when I was testing 02.02.28A.  I reverted to 02.02.26A for now.  Hopefully it gets fixed soon.

After updating my firmware to 01.01.28F, the radio reception  seems much better. Was there a fix done on the radio?

I have a v2 fuze, and I can change ReplayGain mode without issues, but I can’t set pregain values (I can only choose between “” [nothing] and 0.00 dB)

I haven’ had any player’s lock-up or freeze like with previous firmware. This bugfix update was really needed.

So if turn off the replay gain, it will be fine?, sandisk should fix it, if it do that problems?

@arg wrote:

I have Replay Gain information added to most of my music, and it seems like Replay Gain is constantly active regardless of the setting. I haven’t ABX’d it yet (I’m definitely aware of the placebo effect), but I have played albums mastered loud vs. dynamic, and there appears to be no volume discrepancy between them with this firmware.

I haven’t been able to enter the Replay Gain screen again since I reset to factory defaults; My V2 just white screens.

Btw, why that update still not in the KB? maybe because of that bug?

“slotRadio experience is enhanced”

Does it allow rating Slotradio songs, adding them to the go list, and all other abilities to navigate them in the order I want and only play the songs on the Slotradio card that I want to hear? If so, then I might be interested in buying a Slotradio card. If I still have no control over which songs are played and in what order they are played, then I will continue to avoid Slotradio cards.

What does the letter mean at the end of the version number? I’ve seen some people have V02.02.28A and mine says V02.02.28F. Just curious.

Country code. 

If you have a “A”, it’s America. F is france, iirc. Mine is T for Test - has an extra diagnostic menu which includes a really freaky microphone test function :slight_smile:

D.

Had I known they were going to add the Slot Radio icon on my Fuze, I never would have done the latest firmware upgrade…I already paid for my device, I don’t need Sansa advertising, there should be an option to remove it. What download service will be force fed to me next…just sayin’

Message Edited by ScottLive5 on 10-13-2009 11:48 AM

I can’t believe all the whining over an icon in the menu that you don’t have to access…get over yourselves, people. Would you like some

with that? Then you would have

 

Next update due when?

Gapless perhaps?

Message Edited by roj on 10-13-2009 01:58 PM

@dunny wrote:

Country code. 

 

If you have a “A”, it’s America. F is france, iirc. Mine is T for Test - has an extra diagnostic menu which includes a really freaky microphone test function :slight_smile:

 

D.

 

How did you get that? I want too! xD Perhaps changing the “Region” string in the file version.sdk? I’ve to try it :slight_smile:

BTW, my fuze reports F, but version.sdk says “Americas” and internally it’s set to Europe/Spanish. Maybe the “F” means Europe?

Message Edited by ssorgatem on 10-13-2009 02:15 PM

@dunny wrote:

Country code. 

 

If you have a “A”, it’s America. F is france, iirc. Mine is T for Test - has an extra diagnostic menu which includes a really freaky microphone test function :slight_smile:

 

D.

 

You’re half-right. “A” does stand for America, but “F” indicates European with FM radio. An “E” represents European without FM.

@ffa01 wrote:
Music playback stutters when scrolling through long artist/album/song lists. Didn’t happen with previous firmware.

It did for me on .26.  I don’t think it did on the release before that.

@slotmonsta wrote:

Bugs Fixed:   

·         Rating info is lost following database refresh on songs loaded in microSD

I never used the microSD on the previous version, but what was this bug? Were all ratings lost before? I’m losing ratings on songs on the SD card on database refresh with V01.02.28P (What’s the ‘P’, anyway?)

I’ve tried

  • Synching with MediaMonkey in MTP mode (my preferred mode, since it synchs ratings correctly both ways)

  • Synching with MediaMonkey in MSC mode

  • Windows Explorer file copy in MSC mode

In no circumstance does the rating visible in MediaMonkey and Vista Home Premium show on the SD card songs.  When I rate a song on the SD card, and then add files by any method, the rating is gone after database refresh.