Malcom
I have never heard of this being a continual problem with ALL files for anyone here.
Personally I have had problems with certain files that I have ripped myself.
I saw one other user on here report the same thing.
The files played fine on a Sansa e200 series but for some reason the Fuze has some sensitivities.
The files just played extremely slowly. About 1/4 speed. REAL slow. And the time notation fir the file would go from, say, 7:00 for a song to 35 or 40 minutes!
Sansafix (on this forum) did some analysis of one of my bad tracks.
He said there was some “garbage” in the file at the beginning.
What I did was to open in a sound-editing software (NCH WavePad free version) and resave tp mp3 file with the (CRC?) Error Correcting turned on. That did the trick.
The new .24 firmware release is supposed to have solved this issue.
this is a very minor issue. don’t let it stop you from considering the Fuze. They are great!
