Sansa Fuze Firmware Update 01.02.26 & 02.02.26

@adamr127 wrote:


@slotmonsta wrote:

 

Sansa Fuze Firmware 01.01.26 download and installation instructions

 


 

FYI once the update is done on the v1 Fuze the firmware version says 01.02.26A

That means you’re in North America:wink:

Also, from what I have noticed, the update has basically corrupted some tags in both my Fuze and my brother’s. There’s just like a rectangle at the end with some songs in it that were not there before. Not sure if this is because of fault of my own, but it happened after the update.

@marvin_martian wrote:


@adamr127 wrote:


@slotmonsta wrote:

 

Sansa Fuze Firmware 01.01.26 download and installation instructions

 


 

FYI once the update is done on the v1 Fuze the firmware version says 01.02.26A


That means you’re in North America:wink:

Is it supposed to say 01. 02.26A or 01. 01.26A ?

@adamr127 wrote:


@marvin_martian wrote:


@adamr127 wrote:


@slotmonsta wrote:

 

Sansa Fuze Firmware 01.01.26 download and installation instructions

 


 

FYI once the update is done on the v1 Fuze the firmware version says 01.02.26A


That means you’re in North America:wink:


Is it supposed to say 01. 02.26A or 01. 01.26A ?

 

 

I see what you’re saying…mine says 1.02.26A.

I only noticed the A before. :dizzy_face:

Also, when viewing photos then clicking the home button to go back, it “skips” or stops the song playing for a second, which did not happen to me before.

Message Edited by shenanagins1091 on 04-08-2009 04:42 PM

Good catch, adamr127!

@shenanagins1091 wrote:
Also, from what I have noticed, the update has basically corrupted some tags in both my Fuze and my brother’s. There’s just like a rectangle at the end with some songs in it that were not there before. Not sure if this is because of fault of my own, but it happened after the update.

You’re kidding, yes? If not, are you talking about an icon next to the song titles…that are on an external memory card…?  Have you not added an external mem card to the Fuze before?

@bobletteross wrote:


@shenanagins1091 wrote:
Also, from what I have noticed, the update has basically corrupted some tags in both my Fuze and my brother’s. There’s just like a rectangle at the end with some songs in it that were not there before. Not sure if this is because of fault of my own, but it happened after the update.


You’re kidding, yes? If not, are you talking about an icon next to the song titles…that are on an external memory card…?  Have you not added an external mem card to the Fuze before?

I do not have any external memory. Here, I’ll describe. Prior to this update, I had Survivor on my Fuze. Now, Survivor is gone! Instead, it appears at the end of the artists list as a rectangle, as well as the song Eye of The Tiger when I click it. There are multiple songs in this rectangle shaped artist in my brother’s Fuze. All tags were propper and editted using MP3 tag before this update.

anyone catch that the white bar goes away when your listening to music? I don’t know what I did but it dissapeared for a while, I changed the volume and it came back.

please tell me you fixed the golist for all Genres such as Podcast and Audio books. it’s the only thing that I ever asked for you guys to fix. it’s stupid that my older sandisk players have no problem adding Podcasts and audio books to the golist and yet the Fuse does. I have to change all my podcast genres to pod or something else everyday because of this bug and I am sorta getting sick of it. it would be nice to just drag and drop my daily shows such as the 404 and BOL to the player and go… not have to monkey around with Genres.

Message Edited by jarrycanada on 04-08-2009 06:04 PM

@jarrycanada wrote:
please tell me you fixed the golist for all Genres such as Podcast and Audiobooks. it’s the only thing that I ever asked for you guys to fix. it’s stupied that my older sandisk players have no problem adding Podcasts and audiobooks to the golist and yet the Fuse does. I have to change all my podcast genres to pod or something else everyday because of this bug and I am sorta getting sick of it. it would be nice to just drag and drop my daily shows such as the 404 and BOL to the player and go… not have to monkey around with file Genres
Message Edited by jarrycanada on 04-08-2009 05:00 PM

I just checked, and Go List for podcast is not present.

@jarrycanada wrote:
please tell me you fixed the golist for all Genres such as Podcast and Audiobooks. it’s the only thing that I ever asked for you guys to fix. it’s stupied that my older sandisk players have no problem adding Podcasts and audiobooks to the golist and yet the Fuse does. I have to change all my podcast genres to pod or something else everyday because of this bug and I am sorta getting sick of it. it would be nice to just drag and drop my daily shows such as the 404 and BOL to the player and go… not have to monkey around with file Genres
Message Edited by jarrycanada on 04-08-2009 05:00 PM

What do you use for a podcatcher? I use  MediaMonkey to copy all my podcasts into my podcast folder. Why do you need them in the GoList?

adamr127 wrote:


@slotmonsta wrote:

 

Sansa Fuze Firmware 01.01.26 download and installation instructions

 


 

FYI once the update is done on the v1 Fuze the firmware version says 01.02.26A

 

 

Edit: by the way I forgot to mention, thanks for the update!  I think it’s really cool that SanDisk has a forum where they ask customers what they’d like to see in future updates.  

Message Edited by adamr127 on 04-08-2009 04:50 PM

Thanks for the catch. I have updated the thread with the correct version number 01.02.26. The download link will still say 01.01.26 for now but i will get that chaged as soon as possible.

01.02.26 is the correct version.

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slotmonsta

Certainly the changes in this firmware are significant and deserve the minor version bump.

Because If I am in my car or at a out some place I need to add shows on the fly to my golist. my c250 does this perfectly. I’ll add my daily shows to the go list and have them play so I don’t have to pull over and select another show when I am out. OR at night time when I am upstairs I’ll be adding two or three shows to my list and plug the player into the stereo. Most of the time, it’s plugged into a stereo system not the headphones.  This is my forth SanDisk product and this is the only one that doesn’t let you move Podcasts to a go list. IF I had of known this before hand I would never have bought it, and if SanDisk does this with any of its future products too. that it, THIS IS MY LAST SANDISK PRODUCT. It’s stupid that I have to rename the Genres for all my podcasts or as you say make a custom play list. I don’t have a notebook with me all the time and it’s stupid that I would need one just to add three or four shows to a play list. Doesn’t seem like a hard request to me, after all my c250 c150 512mb SanDisk players all could do this.  Don’t’ see why this product couldn’t do that too. That’s why it upsets me… is all.

Message Edited by jarrycanada on 04-08-2009 06:13 PM

Slot, can you comment on the corruption of my ID tags after the update? I don’t think it can just be me since my brother told me he had the same problem. I’m not mad, but I don’t want it ignored since I have to fix it and then wait for the media to refresh. New wallpapers though, keep it in mind.

Message Edited by shenanagins1091 on 04-08-2009 05:21 PM

ID3 tag issue: songs with genre tag “Sound Clip” have the artist tag truncated to 16 characters. Nonstandard genres may not be allowed in the ID3 v2.3.4 spec, I haven’t read it.

On the other hand, I’m glad the OGG freeze issue is fixed, and file browser is nice!

Questions:

1.# a)What does the Pregain function do - does it work only for songs with replay gain info, for all, or for all witout replaygain?

1.# b)For which filetypes does replaygain work? All with tags where replaygain information is encoded (so WMA too?) or only mp3?

Suggestions:

2.# It would be great if one could switch off indexing alltogether - I use folder navigation now and am happy about it :slight_smile:

Thanks a lot for the update. I know for sure that I will be amongst the first to try out rockbox once it’s availabe, but I could live without it now too. Time to get one of those rare 32GB microSD cards now so that I can more or less move my whole media collection over…

BTW for new features: You forgot to mention that in trackinfo the whole filename is shown now, including the ending!!! So it’s easy to look up what audio compression is used for a song!

Message Edited by extremecarver on 04-09-2009 02:41 AM

I’ve registered just to share my (somewhat) frustrating experience with the new firmware.  I was excited at first, but after I loaded the firmware on my (V1, 8GB Silver) fuze, I was shocked to find that my fuze refused to turn on after the update, which apparently went well.  I found that the only way to get my fuze to turn back on again was to do a reset (holding the power switch up for about 15 seconds).  This works inconsistently, and I have to try more than once for it to work.  No amount of ‘regular’ turning on (just flicking the switch up for a short while) will get it to turn on until I’ve done the reset. 

Also, normally the fuze will turn on automatically after I connect it to my PC.  However, now when I connect it, it remains shut off and XP refuses to recognize its existence.  It doesn’t even seem to charge.

When it does turn on, it acts absolutely normal - it loads, plays music, everything.  It even connects correctly and without problems to my PC.  Hoping that it would fix the problem, I re-transferred the firmware over to the fuze, which updated again.  The problems remain.

This all happened right after I installed the new firmware.  I’ve had the player since Christmas and this is the very first problem I’ve ever had with it.  I only hope that there is a way to fix this without having to format the player (though my music collection isn’t particularly large,  it is tedious to transfer it all with my old, slow 1.0 USB Ports (or so I assume, as whenever I connect a USB device, it always says it would be better to connect it via a “HI-SPEED USB 2.0 Port” or something like that)).

 Thanks in advance for any advice.  I’ll probably try formatting if nothing else seems to help.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go eat dinner real quick :wink:.

Edit: I don’t use any memory cards.

Message Edited by Rainbreak on 04-08-2009 05:48 PM

This is one great firmware update. The fuze is getting near the top of all mp3 players soon haha.

-Folder integration is smooth, nicely designed and found no problems

-Addition of track info is a great feature but missing composer and publisher tags, as well as not including “/” or “x out of x” in track tags

-Embedded Ogg album art support is also great