Question: Folders and continuous play

MP3 players Sansa Fuze
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Hey everyone,

I just picked up the Fuze V2 after reading all the reviews.  The main reason I bought it was to have a folder view which the new version of the firmware makes possible. This is great and all, however, I noticed that once one folder is done playing, the player does not move onto the next folder on the Micro SD card. 

Does anyone know any way to make it play each folder continuously?  I did try and going into the root directory of the card and pressing “Play all.” That works, but it just plays every song on the SD.  Sometimes, I just want to pick a folder in the middle of my folder list and just let the player go to the next folder and so on after.  This is a function I really want in an MP3 player.  I was previously using a Lexar LDP-200 which has no internal memory and relies completely on SD cards but only goes up to 2gb max.  It recently broke and I couldn’t find another one for the life of me.  It had a great folder view that allowed you to pick a folder to play, then once it was done, it would go to the next folder. 

I would greatly appreciate any advice on this issue.

Thanks, 

King Gainer

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How about putting a multiple folders together into a folder and then playing that folder? Don’t know if it would work, but it’s worth a try. You could start by just putting two togeter and see if it would move forward.

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Hey there Black-Rectangle,

Thanks for replying!  I actually tried that earlier yesterday.  No luck. I actually went back to my old Lexar for now.  If I can’t figure out how to make this player do it, I’m just gonna give it to a buddy of mine.  There goes $50, I guess. It was a nice player, but if it doesn’t do what I want it’s more of an annoyance than a luxury. To be honest, even after fiddling with the equalizer, I feel like my old lexar sounds better.  Sometimes, it just sounds like the sound is muffled.  I’ve tried different ear phones and my car stereo, too.

Anyhow, I’ll keep trying to mess around with the fuze for the next week and see what happens.

Thanks again,

King Gainer

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It shouldn’t sound muffled. But the headphone jack is very tight, and you may need to wiggle it around and push to be sure the plug is in there. Normal EQ isn’t muffled in any of the three phones (Sennheiser, Shure, Grado) I use all the time with the Fuze.

You can make playlists with Windows Media Player (in MTP mode) or Media Monkey or Winamp (in MSC mode), among many other programs.

And you can do a lot of variations via ID3 tags, like playing everything by an Artist (Play All will go through all of the albums by one artist, in alphabetical order by album title). Before you give up on the Fuze, you really should explore the possibilities of ID3 tags.

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@kinggainer wrote:

Hey everyone,

 

I just picked up the Fuze V2 after reading all the reviews.  The main reason I bought it was to have a folder view which the new version of the firmware makes possible. This is great and all, however, I noticed that once one folder is done playing, the player does not move onto the next folder on the Micro SD card. 

 

Does anyone know any way to make it play each folder continuously?  I did try and going into the root directory of the card and pressing “Play all.” That works, but it just plays every song on the SD.  Sometimes, I just want to pick a folder in the middle of my folder list and just let the player go to the next folder and so on after.  This is a function I really want in an MP3 player.  I was previously using a Lexar LDP-200 which has no internal memory and relies completely on SD cards but only goes up to 2gb max.  It recently broke and I couldn’t find another one for the life of me.  It had a great folder view that allowed you to pick a folder to play, then once it was done, it would go to the next folder. 

 

I would greatly appreciate any advice on this issue.

 

Thanks, 

 

King Gainer

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If I understand correctly what you want to do, you’re half way there. You just need a couple more steps. I’m going to assume you organize your music something like Artist > Album > Track. My music folder looks something like this:

Old Hippie Group 1

      1968 - Hippie Album 1

             01 - song 1

             02 - song 2

      1970 - Hippie Album 2

             01 - song 1

             02 - song 2

      etc. for 4 more albums

Old Hippie Group 2 

etc., for dozens more groups

Now say I want to listen to some tunes by Old Hippie Group 1 but want to start with their 1970 Album 2.

In the main music menu, select Folders. Then select either Internal Memory or External uSD Card, depending on where Old Hippie Group 1’s music is. Then select MUSIC. Then, from the list of artists, select Old Hippie Group 1. Then select Play All. I think this is as far as you got. But, now that the music for 1968 Album 1 is playing, tap the menu button (the “down” section of the scroll wheel). Select Back To Music List. Now you have the list of all songs. Scroll down to the first song on 1970 Album 2 and click select (if you’ve named each song’s file with a track number prefix, it souldn’t be hard to see where one album ends and the next one begins). The Fuze will now play all songs in order from that point on.  You can confirm this by noticing that the track indicator is now showing something like 21/307. If the Fuze is only playing that particular album, you would see something like 1/13.

Hope this helps achieve what you’re trying to do. I know it works for me. I love the folder navigation. By giving each album a year-of-release prefix, I can listen to a Group’s catalog in chronological order, in whole or in part.

Message Edited by BigJohnL on 09-21-2009 08:20 PM

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Wow, has Old Hippie Group reunited? I loved their great song, Endless Noodling Jam.

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@black_rectangle wrote:
Wow, has Old Hippie Group reunited? I loved their great song, Endless Noodling Jam.

Yeah, they’re gearing up for their “Old Greybeard” tour, where they’ll be promoting their new Album, featuring new songs like “Remember When We Could Remember When?”, “Green Onions Give Me Gas”, and their latest come-back hit “Blowin’ Out The Wind.” They’ll be starting their 5-week, 5-city tour next month (it takes them 5 weeks to cover 5 cities because none of them drives over 35 MPH now). Remember: all scooters, walkers and oxygen tanks are subject to inspection at the gate. Enjoy!

Message Edited by BigJohnL on 09-21-2009 07:58 PM