So im very close to throwing my Fuze against the wall and calling it a loss. I have a Sansa Fuze v1 4gb with a sandisk 32gb hdsc card. When I tranfer files via media monkey or through explorer everything seems fine. The files are there and are playable in explorer. When I unplug my player the files magically disappear. Sometimes all files and sometimes most files. They still take up space on my hcsd card but are not there. I have usb mode msc on. I have tried formatting fat32 with 16k and 32k clusters. I have tried everything i can think of. Its not a problem with file limit either because I only have a handfull of songs on it. I have read through these forums and cannot find an answer that will fix this problem. Please help because Im about to cut my losses and buy an ipod like everyone else!!!
I’m getting a psychic message from Carnac The Magnificent.
You have purchased the card from Ebay from a seller in China. Is he right? 
Carnac The Magnificent is good. I read about fake hcsd cards but mine looked legit. Came in the packaging and everything. I ran H2Testw and sure enoug it is a fake. Sorry to waste your time. Last time I order anything from China. Now only if Carnac The Magnificent could give me Wednesdays lotto numbers…
@avaadore wrote:
Carnac The Magnificent is good. I read about fake hcsd cards but mine looked legit. Came in the packaging and everything. I ran H2Testw and sure enoug it is a fake. Sorry to waste your time. Last time I order anything from China. Now only if Carnac The Magnificent could give me Wednesdays lotto numbers…
Careful . . . you do know that SanDisk mp3 players (and most of today’s electronic devices including all those popular iThingys) are made in China too, don’t you? 
HI
Probably an old question but I’m new. I comment was about a 32gb hdsc card. However, I thought that the Fuze could only take cards up to 8 GB. Can it recognize 32 gb? (Sorry to break in on the thread but I’ve only been in a forum once before and am not sure of the “rules” and “correct procedures”. BUT, if Carnac (or anyone else if Carnac is busy) could assist in enlightening me, I’d appreciate it. Thanks so much.
You have to have one of the newest versions of the firmware, but yes the Fuze spec claims that it supports 32GB cards. I personally haven’t heard of any success stories yet, which isn’t surprising considering how expensive real 32GB cards are.
Thanks for your help. You say you haven;t heard success stories. Do you hink it is mainly the expense as you mentinoed or that the large capacity of a 16 or 32GB chip has created a problem? Any knowledge of 16GB success. (Currently I have a 8 GB on mine and am thinking of adding a 16 or 32, rather than buy a new mp3 player of that size. The Fuze really is pretty slick, as someone put it: An iPod without the cost.
Only other problem I have is that I’ve switched to iTunes because it is so much better than WMP for organizing music, but you can’t download and sync a playlist to the Fuze (a non-iPod). (I’ve searched and tried to find an interface software on the internet but to no avail. So I’ve re-fired up WMP (in conjunction with my iTunes) for use only as a “playlist syncer” and used “Tuneup” to add the mp3 titles and artwork; and Tune Sweeper to my iTunes to eliminate all duplicates files. (Both do a slick job on getting rid of the annoyances in iTunes and get it cleanly organized). BTW, I do not work for either of those companies. I’m just someon w/ 35GB of music that is trying to herd in an increasingly large collection, and just trying to find a way to get a lot of it from my PC to my Fuze easily and quickly. The extra capacity a 16 or 32 GB card would help alot in allowing me to have a good chunk of my collection always on my player so I don’t have to make playlists as often…
PS Sorry for the typo’s…I’ve just discovered that proofreading after a post is not a successful method. Opps.
16GB works fine for me. The basic SanDisk card, class 2.
There is an upper limit on the number of files the Fuze can list, and depending on how small your files are you might reach it with 32GB.It can probably also be done with 16GB if you have low-bitrate files.
iTunes tags, last I looked, were ID3v2.2 but I have an old iTunes. It may be up to 2.4 by now, and of course since it’s Apple and Apple hates user choice you can’t change the ID3 version. The Fuze is fine with ID3v2.2, but has trouble with ID32.4.
And what it really likes is ID3v2.3 with Windows English character encoding, ISO-8859-1. You can avoid problems by running all your albums through mp3tag before they go onto the Fuze.
In Tools/Options/Tags/Mpeg set its defaults to Write ID3 v2.3 ISO-8859-1.
Open your album folder, make sure files are in order, and go to Tools/Auto-Numbering Wizard with the Leading Zeroes option. This changes track numbers from iTunes’ 1/12, 2/12 to 01, 02, 03, which is what the Fuze prefers. And it will also rewrite the tags is ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1.
@rudycc wrote:
Thanks for your help. You say you haven;t heard success stories. Do you hink it is mainly the expense as you mentinoed or that the large capacity of a 16 or 32GB chip has created a problem? Any knowledge of 16GB success. (Currently I have a 8 GB on mine and am thinking of adding a 16 or 32, rather than buy a new mp3 player of that size. The Fuze really is pretty slick, as someone put it: An iPod without the cost.
Only other problem I have is that I’ve switched to iTunes because it is so much better than WMP for organizing music, but you can’t download and sync a playlist to the Fuze (a non-iPod). (I’ve searched and tried to find an interface software on the internet but to no avail. So I’ve re-fired up WMP (in conjunction with my iTunes) for use only as a “playlist syncer” and used “Tuneup” to add the mp3 titles and artwork; and Tune Sweeper to my iTunes to eliminate all duplicates files. (Both do a slick job on getting rid of the annoyances in iTunes and get it cleanly organized). BTW, I do not work for either of those companies. I’m just someon w/ 35GB of music that is trying to herd in an increasingly large collection, and just trying to find a way to get a lot of it from my PC to my Fuze easily and quickly. The extra capacity a 16 or 32 GB card would help alot in allowing me to have a good chunk of my collection always on my player so I don’t have to make playlists as often…
The 32gb works just fine on the fuze and on the clip+ also. I use the card sometimes in one player and then other times in the other player. With good, clean, uncluttered tags, the refresh time for me is about 3-4 minutes, but I haven’t filled it up yet. Right now I just have a little over 22 gb on the card. It’s great to have so much storage. I don’t have to remove anything if I want to try a new album(s).
It seems to me the cost has been a factor in the lack of people owning the cards. But the price has gone down still. I just saw the card (in retail packaging ) in the low to upper $70’s for sale on Amazon. For those who are reluctant to use some of the sellers listed, Sandisk has a list of their authorized resellers on their website.
In the U.S.
I have the same issue. Bought my sandisk 32gb from amazon.com as a used card. I have a 4gb Sansa Fuze. I could use some suggestions on how fix issue.
Can you specifically describe your problem? The “same issue” for the original poster was that he had a fake card.
First thing to do is check that the card is working.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/H2testw.shtml
@jhnrdzs wrote:
Bought my sandisk 32gb from amazon.com as a used card. I have a 4gb Sansa Fuze. I could use some suggestions on how fix issue.
_ Never _ buy a used card from someone you don’t know and without testing it first.
Since it was thru Amazon I felt it was a good buy.
I should mention that the was synced 3400 mp3 files, but the fuze shows 179 files. when I open the sandisk to view the files with my computer it shows that the files are on the disk.
Go all the way down Music, past the first page, and see if you see the files under Folders view.
Go to Settings/System Settings/Info and see what it tells you is on the card.
They may not be files recognized by the Fuze–like mp4 or aac files from iTunes. Those are useless on the Fuze.
They may have tag problems, which can be fixed. Look up mp3tag in the search box.
Also, since it’s such a big card, you may have exceeded the size of the Fuze database, which wasn’t made for such giant cards. But 179 songs shouldn’t do that.
