I came here and registered to say thanks to Sandisk. I bought a Sansa Fuze about half a year ago and it is just pure awesomeness. I love it, being a (quite cheap) device with high-quality firmware, ReplayGain, playing FLAC and Vorbis, quite nice battery life and a high output. (very convenient using headphones)
How refreshing to hear someone praising these miniature electronic marvels others seem intent upon putting down and whining about all that they can’t do, rather than what they can!
I was actually thinking the same, all those feature requests, discussing about SMC, gapless playback… I was already watching this forum for some time I am really, really happy with my Fuze.
I agree with the OP. Even though I am new to the mobile media player world (never had a need for one until now), I can say that I am glad I picked Sandisk over iPod or the horrible M$ Zune. The Fuze can do more than both of those devices for half the price. It is indeed pure awesomeness. Gotta love FLAC and vorbis playback out of the box. Good luck getting vorbis support from Apple or M$. Hell, i can’t even play Vorbis on my Windoze 7 install (I rarely use Windoze anyway, but this fortifies my decision).
I’ve bought SansaFuze 8gb because I’d heard that it play flac and ogg. All was not great but it do it almost well.
But since the 1.26 FW, it’s perfect! ReplayGain, Folder navigation, no more bug about mp3->ogg play… This FW was a very good surprise and a lot of friends buy it when I had done them a demonstration.
I think it’s the only one wich have all this specific features!
Great work!
I suppose the “life” for new features is over (the last FW was more bug fixe than new features) but for me, sandisk showed me he had the possibility to make a great players with very specifics things you can’t find elsewhere.
I’m impatient to know the next Sansa Fuze generation! (Android inside? ^^)
I had replaced mine twice, but once you get it to work, it’s the greatest $87 I ever spent on an mp3 player (really the only, but that doesn’t matter).