AAC Support

MP3 players Sansa Fuze
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I was excited when I got an e-mail advertising this player, as I’m looking to upgrade my e250.  My wife has an iPod, so naturally we have some AAC stuff (75% of it is non-Fairplay).  However, it doesn’t appear the Fuze plays AAC… is that correct?

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yes that is correct. I think all sansa products don’t support AAC.

Message Edited by thoma on 04-04-2008 04:57 PM

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Bummer.  Would be nice to support it.  I love the Sansa players, but that’s a big drawback if we decide to keep purchasing iTunes Plus tracks.  I guess there is always amazon mp3.

Man, I wish apple or sandisk would support Vorbis.  :slight_smile:

Thanks! 

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Try mp3fiesta.com - you’re getting ripped off at $1+ per song

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mp3fiesta sounds a bit like allofmp3.com, which I question.  If you’re that cheap, just download them for free.

Ripped off for you, but I don’t mind.  I’d rather pay $1 for a song than go buy the whole album if I don’t want it.  $1 is not a big deal.

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The Sansa View, the e200R, and e200v1 with Rockbox plays AAC fine.

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Bill, aren’t you able to convert the purchased Itunes tracks into mp3? I know Itunes can do it for regular ripped cd tracks…

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Can convert aac to mp3 though while the support is lacking. Sure it’ll be there eventually.

http://www.magicvideo.net/aac-to-mp3/

Possible batch conversion

S

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I enjoy using a universal conversion program called SUPER (Simplified Universal Player, Encoder, and Renderer - from ErightSoft).  It uses the ever popular MEncoder, as well as FFmpeg to convert from anything to anything.

NOTE: I am not associated with ErightSoft AT ALL.  I just use thier GUI.

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Media Coder is free and converts m4a to mp3. I don’t think it converts m4p, however.

iTunes also has a Convert to mp3 function under Advanced.

Get out of the iTunes walled garden. Get mp3s from Amazon, eMusic, or other places.  

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Is the search function of the forum broken? There have been many threads about AAC support. Sandisk devices don’t have AAC support because of licensing costs.

bilbravo wrote: Man, I wish apple or sandisk would support Vorbis.  :slight_smile:

As in OGG files? The Fuze plays those just fine. If it wasn’t supported originally, it has been added in a later firmware revision.

@advcomp2019 wrote:
The Sansa View, the e200R, and e200v1 with Rockbox plays AAC fine.

So does the Fuze v1. It won’t be long until it will be listed as a ‘supported’ device on the rockbox site. The biggest concern for the developers is playback from uSD cards which can lead to corruption with certain cards but I have used it for months now without problems.