i tryed but its not working
Digital Copies of What? If you are referring to Music then there are any number of different methods which can be found by searching this forum. But if you are talking about movies which I think you are, you need to find digital copies that dont have DRM protection. So that means not the version for Ipod or Zune. Then you need to use a program like Sansa Media Converter, Rhapsody, or Video4Fuze to convert the file to something that the Fuze like and add it to the Fuze.
SMC will convert the file and add it to the player for you, I dont know about the others.
The Fuze is made to play digital copies of music: .mp3, .wma, .FLAC or .ogg.
.mp3 is easiest.
Go into Settings/System Settings and change the USB mode to MSC and you can just drag-and-drop mp3 files from your computer onto the unit. Anywhere you want (except Audiobooks or Podcasts or Temp).
Or look at these How-to videos
Digital Copy is an extra disc you get with certain DVD’s. It’s is meant to be a file that can be played on a computer instead of the DVD.
However, those files have DRM (Digital rights management) protection and can’t be reencoded or converted.
Therefor, you can not play thos on your Fuze at all.
7o9 wrote:
Digital Copy is an extra disc you get with certain DVD’s. It’s is meant to be a file that can be played on a computer instead of the DVD.
However, those files have DRM (Digital rights management) protection and can’t be reencoded or converted.
Therefor, you can not play thos on your Fuze at all.
They can be done. Its just really tough to do.
The only Sansa I know of that’s compatible with DVD “digital copies” (without using DRM-stripping software, which is of questionable legality) is the View. However, it has problems which may never be fixed (the last firmware update was ~18 months ago, with little hope there will ever be another), and many people will tell you to avoid it.
Message Edited by gwk1967 on 12-26-2009 02:18 AM
Poke around this resourceful website for information on duplicating DVDs. I don’t know if they’ve figured out those nasty “digital copy” discs, though.
The “digital copy” does transfer using the Sansa View.
I prefer to think of the Digital Copy as a plain hamburger, a marketing experiment.
The real digital copy on that DVD is the original version. There are many options available to transfer that original to VOB files that the SMC or video4fuze can transfer over to the Fuze. Stick with the original DVD, and ignore that ghetto “value menu” drivel that was provided with it.
Enjoy your DVD that you paid for in the first place. That’s the point, isn’t it?
Bob 
@black_rectangle wrote:
And for videos, don’t bother with Sansa Media Converter–get video4fuze instead.
I second this. Tried ‘converting’ a movie I had using the Media Convertor, even when preview playing it with the convertor, I got no sound… although a different movie previewed with sound. The first movie converted successfully, albeit without sound when transferred to my Fuze, the second video (and any subsequent videos) did not convert at all. The pop-up converter progress box just stayed at 0%.
With video4fuze, running on Windows 7, it wouldn’t complete the conversion at all, but after setting the program to run in XP SP3 compatibility mode, it converts videos perfectly, and with the Fuze set to USB mode MSC (so the Fuze is detected as a mass-storage device), I could simply drag and drop the converted movies into the Fuze’s ‘video’ folder, and they played back perfectly.
Like the quote says, don’t even bother with the Sansa Media Converter, just get video4fuze, set the USB setting on your Fuze to MSC mode, and go.
Search around for an older program called DVD Decrypter. It should allow you to rip a copy of DVDs to your hard disk.
Or, if you wanna be outlawish about it, just find .avi versions of movies from torrent sites, and video4fuze them into compatible files to view on the Fuze.
@wolf2600 wrote:
Search around for an older program called DVD Decrypter. It should allow you to rip a copy of DVDs to your hard disk.
Or, if you wanna be outlawish about it, just find .avi versions of movies from torrent sites, and video4fuze them into compatible files to view on the Fuze.
The problem with DVD Decrypter is that it hasn’t been updated in ages , so it can’t handle the DRM on a lot of newer discs.
@gwk1967 wrote:
The problem with DVD Decrypter is that it hasn’t been updated in ages , so it can’t handle the DRM on a lot of newer discs.
DVD’s don’t have DRM.
Also, ripping DVD’s is not what he asked. He wants to play the ‘digital copy’ version on his Fuze.
Lots of good advice in this thread, but unfortunately almost none answering his question.
DVDs don’t have DRM?
If you consider region coding and copy protection to be Digital Rights Management–I certainly do–then DVDs definitely have DRM. Or why would DVD Jon Johansen be prosecuted for devising DeCSS?
You have a point whatchamacallit, but simple copy protection like that is easy enough to circumvent.
To me DRM is the stuff where you need to download licenses (that expire) and where you never really get to own the content.
7o9 wrote:
You have a point whatchamacallit, but simple copy protection like that is easy enough to circumvent.
To me DRM is the stuff where you need to download licenses (that expire) and where you never really get to own the content.
Well 7o9 Copy protection is the first and the most archaic form of DRM (Digital Rights Management), because it is designed to prevent you from taking Media and doing things with it that the company who created it feels are infringing on their ability to make money. HOWEVER I too feel that a DRM is more appropriately looked on as a license or an unseen (this is the newest form I have come across)/ embedded metafile that is part of a file, which limit the use of a given file to certain players, or programs.
Here is where it gets complicated (At least in my experience), DRM’s on many movies can be stripped to allow it to play on anything you want, but there are some that cant (The first one I ever got that I couldnt strip was The Dark Knight). What you need is a program that will re right the DRM or simply find it and delete it. Even if you can do this you run several risks from corrupting the file, to losing the audio, I even saw one that removing the DRM scrambled the file and it looked like really bad antenna reception, not to mention the legal issues.
So in short to get a Digital Copy on the Fuze you need to get the DRM to go away, have the file still be good afterward, then use SMC or Video4Fuze to convert and add to player.
FYI This is the source of my SN. When the First Ipods that played video came out many of my friends wanted to add their DVDs to it. I had the software to convert the file from DVD to digital, so they came to me, and the name Conversionbox was born. I made pretty good money doin that.
