Sansa Fuze heading for the bin!

MP3 players Sansa Fuze
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Well having tried WMP11 and WinAmp and having updated to the latest firmware ive all but given up trying to complile a playlist!

I can get tracks on to the player(?), I can even create a playlist, the only trouble is its always empty! When i click on the Fuze in WinAmp there the playlist i created and there are tracks in it, and they will play on the PC. Starting to wish id gone down the iPod route (never thought id say that) can anyone assist pleeeeeease…

Thanks

John

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Well more by chance then anything i set the USB setting to MTP and hey presto - Sorted!!!

Well happy now!

John

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If you want to use Winamp and MSC mode to create playlists, then this post may help you. The key thing is to direct Winamp to look only at your player’s & card’s drives (Example F:\Music & G:\Music) for your ‘local library’, NOT as a ‘portable player’.

I sucessfully create, manage and add to existing playlists in MSC using Winamp. And it works!

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I think I’m in the same boat, but sunk deeper–I’ve copied my iPod files onto mediamonkey (recommended by CNET as being compatible with Sansa Fuze), but I can’t get my new Fuze (4 GB pink) to sync with mediamonkey.  I’ve also tried Rhapsody–no luck there, either, plus it keeps freezing up my computer.  I’ve tried going through"My Computer," I’ve tried clicking and dragging everything and anywhere in sight.

I had absolutely no problems with iPods and iTunes, but this is driving me crazy!

I pounced on this thread, thinking it might help me, but Ihaven’t the faintest idea what MSC mode is, or what Winamp is.

HELP???  What am I doing wrong?

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I think I’m in the same boat, but sunk deeper–I’ve copied my iPod files onto mediamonkey (recommended by CNET as being compatible with Sansa Fuze), but I can’t get my new Fuze (4 GB pink) to sync with mediamonkey.  I’ve also tried Rhapsody–no luck there, either, plus it keeps freezing up my computer.  I’ve tried going through"My Computer," I’ve tried clicking and dragging everything and anywhere in sight.

I had absolutely no problems with iPods and iTunes, but this is driving me crazy!

I pounced on this thread, thinking it might help me, but Ihaven’t the faintest idea what MSC mode is, or what Winamp is.

HELP???  What am I doing wrong?"

Are you songs in MP3 format? That is the only format that iTunes uses that will play on the Fuze. Stop trying to sync with the player, and just copy files to the player. This can be done in MTP or MSC mode. Make sure that the files are in a format the Fuze can play before you copy them to the Fuze. If your itunes music is not in mp3 format, then rather than trying to convert it to mp3, use your original CDs and make mp3 files from them using Windows Media Player. Next copy the mp3 files to the player using My Computer or Windows Explorer. Your mp3 files are probably in the folder my documents, my music, or something like that. Don’t try to sync the player with Windows Media Player(you might be asking for trouble if you do). When you start Windows Media Player(it is already on your pc), click the rip tab and choose mp3 for the format. Click the rip tab again, and choose 192 or 256 for the bitrate. If you click the rip tab again, you can click on options(or something like that) to set other ripping options. This is all so simple, but some people try to make it complicated by trying to sync the player.

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Thanks, JK, I’ll try that.

It might seem simple to you, but since I never saw instructions anywhere for rip tab, changing mp3 format, or for changing bitrate, I had no idea that I needed to do that.

Everything I had seen made it look like all I had to do was let Windows Media (or mediamonkey, or Rhapsody) copy the iPod files, and then I would just need to sync.

What we need are clear, step-by-step instructions for the non-iPod stuff–but there aren’t any anywhere.  The ones that come with the Sansa and the ones that I found on-line skip lots of steps that might seem obvious to you, but they’re not obvious to me!