I had an e200something 4gb with rockbox in the past. After repairing it for the third time, I decided to get a new player. After a lot of contemplaiting I got the Fuze+ 8gb in black.
Looks nice.
I like its feel.
I like its display.
Sound is pretty good.
I am so close to smashing it with a hammer.
Firmware is .32
Problem 1:
if I put a certain flac on it, it goes in ‘eternal reboot loop’ mode. Boots, shows ‘loading’ screen, reboots. Player unusable. Lots of fun. Maybe the flac is defective, but even if - there is no excuse for such a behaviour. The player should just ignore it or handle it gracefully. Crashing is never a valid response.
If somebody has an idea I am willing to listen.
Problem 2:
almost the same as 1 but even better: putting a hand crafted playlist on the player and the player freezes completely during boot. Great! Yeah, reset works, and then quickly attaching it via usb and removing the file.
Question: did Sandisk pay their firmware writers? They should demand their money back. How could something brittle as this even pass basic QA?
Problem 3:
Time, I really don’t want to see ‘am’ or ‘pm’. 24h format please. But… how?
Problem 4:
with Rockbox you select an album, press the select key and the album is added to the playlist. Very handy to create a playlist quickly out of several albums. In fact, this is the only way I ever created playlists because it fits my needs perfectly.
Now guess what does not work with the Fuze+?
Problem 5:
with creating playlists on the fuze+ being utterly unusable and me without windows, how do I create playlists that do not freeze the player? (Hint: easytag and amarok both create playlists of doom, and yes, I replaced the / with \ and used unix2dos, no change).