Hey ya’ll, I’m wondering if anyone else is having this issue… I have vista home premium with windows media center… As soon as I install “sansa media converter” is shuts down my “windows media center”… When I uninstall “sansa media player” my " windows media center" comes right up… I called sansa “tech support” and they weren’t sure !! I tried the “any video converter” and those files do not play on my Fuze 2gb…
Fuze works fine with my TV enabled PC. I use an ATI 650 TV card.
The SMC lets me transfer recorded TV shows to my Fuze.
While you do have to use the SMC to convert certain media files, videos mainly, you can use a different media player to sync other files to your Fuze. have you tried MediaMonkey? I know it has a funny name, but it’s a great media program, it’s free, under 7mb, and it supports the Fuze.
Also, about the programs starting and stopping on their own: have you tried looking at your Autoplay settings? You can find it in your Control Panel. It controls what your computer does every time you do certain things, like put in a DVD or CD, or when you plug in your Sansa. I have mine set to ask me every time; it’s possible you clicked an action previously and now your PC automatically takes that action everytime you plug in your Fuze.
Got a Vista machine last year. After two weeks of pulling my hair out with all sorts of issues and numerous calls to Dell help, packed the whole POS up and shipped it back. Got an XP machine and I’m glad I did. I think Vista has become more stable with proper drives and so forth but to me it offered nothing better. Just more problems, more showy graphics for kids and more memory usage.
Anyway, doesn’t solve your problems but Vista ain’t helpin’ anybody make life easier.
Also, after numerous snafu’s and frustration with Windows Media Player, I abandoned the whole thing and re-ripped everything as mp3; ditched WMP, ditched all wma files, and ditched MTP mode. All MSC mode now and just drag-n-drop.
Simple = nice.
Message Edited by blackdog-sansa on 10-22-2008 02:48 PM
you don’t need sansa media converter. sansa media converter is for movies and pictures only. i use windows media player when i am at my grandparents house. they have vista home premium and it works fine without sansa media converter.