is there any easy way of “emulating” “Sleep” function or making Fuze to play just one track and then turn off (assuming Fuze doesn’t have sleep function - I didn’t find it)?
I want to listen my Fuze at night (I have long tracks (90minutes one) and I have many of them in AUDIOBOOKS folder) and I often fall asleep and my player is playing all night (battery discharges).
I used to have Rockbox on my Sansa C250, because of this function, but for Fuze, there is no Rockbox yet.
Only solution which I can realize is to create one playlistsfor one track, which is horrible scenario for me (to much repetitive work every download of podcast or audiobook).
Remember Sandisk - so called “Easy Control” doesn’t always work so easy for every user !! :cry:
is there any easy way of “emulating” “Sleep” function or making Fuze to play just one track and then turn off (assuming Fuze doesn’t have sleep function - I didn’t find it)?
I want to listen my Fuze at night (I have long tracks (90minutes one) and I have many of them in AUDIOBOOKS folder) and I often fall asleep and my player is playing all night (battery discharges).
I used to have Rockbox on my Sansa C250, because of this function, but for Fuze, there is no Rockbox yet.
Only solution which I can realize is to create one playlistsfor one track, which is horrible scenario for me (to much repetitive work every download of podcast or audiobook).
Remember Sandisk - so called “Easy Control” doesn’t always work so easy for every user !! :cry:
Thank You for comments
Settings-System Settings-Power Saver-Shut down in (insert your time here) What this will do, is whenever your track ends(if shuffle and repeat are off) , or even if you push pause and forget about it, the Fuze will shut itself off after your predetermined time. I’ve been using it to emulate the Clip’s Sleep function, and it works fine, as long as the parameters I listed are correct :smiley:
I have many files in AUDIOBOOKS folder, so the stupid Fuze will play all of them till the end of the playlist (directory, album 12 hours long), because it has NOT feature “play JUST one song”
I don’t think Your statement “whenever your track ends” is true, You mean “album ends” or something like that. I have one file, 90min. long, and after thatmany other 90min. long files, which are “album” together.
I have many files in AUDIOBOOKS folder, so the stupid Fuze will play all of them till the end of the playlist (directory, album 12 hours long), because it has NOT feature “play JUST one song”
I don’t think Your statement “whenever your track ends” is true, You mean “album ends” or something like that. I have one file, 90min. long, and after thatmany other 90min. long files, which are “album” together.
I see what you mean…I guess you’d have to alter the tags so they were seperate “albums” …however, it is rumored that a sleep timer will be in the next firmware update, which is s’posed to be just a few days away.
I don’t understand why users have to scream for basic features always when new product show up on the market. Such a standard features should be written deep into marketers and programmers brains already!
I certainly hope the “sleep timer” is included in the next firmware update. I, too, have a similar problem. Every night to go to sleep, I listen to a taped and encoded in mp3 radio show that is 4 hours long. Presently, without the sleep timer function; I split the show into manageable chunks and make playlists out of these chunks…Quite a bit of hassle just to be able to go to sleep by this show and not miss a ton of content.
Don’t get me wrong, overall I am very, very happy with the fuze (in fact I’m getting a second one for Christmas!!!)…but I really thought a sleep timer would be an almost required feature nowadays.
I don’t understand your problem. If each track has a different album tag, then the player should stop after each track if you started it by selecting the album.
@jk98 wrote:
I don’t understand your problem. If each track has a different album tag, then the player should stop after each track if you started it by selecting the album.
In my case, each track is 4 hours before splitting/processing. That is far too long an interval. With a sleep timer, all I would have to do is start the track and it would shut the player off at my predetermined time.
As it is now, I have to split this 4 hour hour track into pieces. Anyhoo…Everyone uses their electronic gear differently. This is my first Sandisk product, and I just found it odd that a sleep timer wasn’t included from the beginning. All my previous players have had sleep timers…and I made a bad assumption…figuring that every player now would have one. Hopefully, it will come eventually.
4 hours per track? That doesn’t seem to make sense. Who is issuing material at 4 hours per track? My experience is that typically long lectures, seminars, etc. are broken up into half an hour or one hour tracks.
I suggest you contact the website that has these and suggest that they be broken up into half hour or one hour segments. There are some utilities that will break up large files into half an hour or one hour segments(with the last segment perhaps being shorter). Some mp3 players might not even properly handle very long files.
@jk98 wrote:
I don’t understand your problem. If each track has a different album tag, then the player should stop after each track if you started it by selecting the album.
Each track does not have different name of album in my case. It would be solution too, but I don’t know whether some ID3editor has such automatic function, I wouldn’t like to do it manually. Besides isn’t it weird to have different Album’s names for tracks from same album?
Longest files I have are 2 hours long and I fall asleep after 30min. approximatelly, so should I cut those tracks to 30 minutes?? Everything is soluble, but at what price?
4 hours per track? That doesn’t seem to make sense. Who is issuing material at 4 hours per track? My experience is that typically long lectures, seminars, etc. are broken up into half an hour or one hour tracks.
I suggest you contact the website that has these and suggest that they be broken up into half hour or one hour segments. There are some utilities that will break up large files into half an hour or one hour segments(with the last segment perhaps being shorter). Some mp3 players might not even properly handle very long files.
These are recordings from an on-air radio broadcast that I have set to record automatically every day. Sure I can split them into smaller chunks (as I previously noted), but than is another step in the process.
Anything can be worked around, given enough time and processes…I have a work around in place…but it is a bit time consuming.
I’m just glad that the “sleep timer” is on it’s way!!! Thank you Sandisk!
I see what you mean…I guess you’d have to alter the tags so they were seperate “albums” …however, it is rumored that a sleep timer will be in the next firmware update, which is s’posed to be just a few days away.
