For Sansa Fuze, can someone explain how to use the microSD/microSDHC slot. I am using Windows XP sp 2, and firmware is V01.01.22A.
Thank you.
ahhhhhh… buy one, push it into the slot, transfer music to it… is this a trick question?
@kim0006 wrote:
For Sansa Fuze, can someone explain how to use the microSD/microSDHC slot. I am using Windows XP sp 2, and firmware is V01.01.22A.
Thank you.
Are you having a specific problem with a microSD card and your Fuze?
Or is this a general ‘What’s it for?’ question - as cryptically answered by hazza!
Memory cards come in different sizes, both physically and storage capacity. The ‘Micro’ is obviously the smallest phsically; about the size of your pinkie fingernail. Make sure when you buy one it says Micro SD or SDHC or it won’t fit. If it’s just called an SD card, chances are it’s a full-size, commonly used in digital cameras. There are also ‘Mini’ cards.
The SD standard goes up to 2GB. After that, the newer SDHC ( H igh Capacity) format is used. These range from 4 to 8 to 16GB currently, although a 32GB card will probably hit the scene later this year or the beginning of next. Pretty amazing when you see the physical size (or lack) of it!
Any of these (SD or SDHC) can be used in the Fuze. When loading music onto it though, you have to realize that your computer will see your player’s internal memory and the card as 2 separate entities or drives. So you determine which location you want to place the files in. It’s not a matter of filling up your Fuze and when it’s full, the files will automatically be placed on the card. That is a common & logical mis-conception by 1st-time users or people new to the technology.
But as said before, the card just slips in the slot. It can only go in one way; printed side up & contact-side down. It’s a push-push spring-loaded mechanism. Push it in until it clicks. It’s now locked in. The top edge of the card will be fairly flush (or just slightly above) the casing of the player. Push it in again until it clicks, and it releases and the spring pushes it out for enough fo you to grab it. There’s no harm in leaving the card in there for extended periods of time. In fact, it could be beneficial to do so as it could preven dust from entering inside.
If you use MTP mode, your player will show up in Windows Explorer under Other. Double-click on it and you’ll see Internal & External memory.
If you use MSC mode, it will be under Devices With Removable Storage (like your CD & DVD drives). You computer will assign it 2 drive letters, like F: & G:. The first will be your player; the second will be the memory card slot. This will show up even if there is no card inserted.
You can either create a folder structure as on the player with a Music folder and Video folder for example, or you can simply load everything on willy-nilly. The Fuze will find it and incorporate the song info into it’s on-screen lists seamlessly with the music, etc. located on the player.
Music located on the card will also play seamlessly. In other words, unless you look at the song list and notice the little icon to the left of the title indicating that the file resides on the card, you won’t be able to tell where the song is located. It will just play like any other, even with the Shuffle turned on.
These little buggers are really in-expensive right now! Excellent deals can be had even on 8GB cards. The ‘Sweet 16s’ are still a bit pricey, but even they have dropped almost 50% from what they were where they came out last September.
These cards are an excellent way to ‘upgrade’ the memory capacity of your player. And when some ‘pod-head’ looks over at your player, maybe while you’re plugging in a card you can turn to him, smile, stick your tongue out and say, “Nah, Nah!”
_ 'cause he ain’t got one! _ 
@tapeworm wrote:
The SD standard goes up to 2GB. After that, the newer SDHC ( H igh Capacity) format is used. These range from 4 to 8 to 16GB currently, although a 32GB card will probably hit the scene later this year or the beginning of next. Pretty amazing when you see the physical size (or lack) of it!
It should be pointed out though that there DO exist 4GB non -HC cards (in the full-sized SD format, at least. Maybe not microSD), but compatibility is pretty hit-or-miss with these cards. Possibly because, as Tapeworm says, the standard only goes up to 2GB and these cards aren’t completely successful at shoehorning themselves into the SD format.
Short version: You may never see a non-HC 4GB card, but buy them at your own risk.
