Sansa Fuze Firmware Update version 01.01.22 & 02.01.17

:omg omg omg omg! 2 more days! maybe :smiley: :smiley:

A promised update on April Fools’ Day?  Hmmmm.  I must say, these upgrades have been very nice to have.  I wish there was some easy-to-find web page telling us when they come out.  It’s not always convenient to connect the player and take the chance of updating it without some prep.

Here’s why.  Given the time-consuming and manual-intensive process for deleting an unwanted song, I do this instead:  Add it to the “Go List” playlist (which I’ve configured to do when I hold down the center button) and skip to the next track.  Then later on, when I have time, I go through the list and delete all the songs I’ve put on it.

The only problem with this technique is, updating the firmware clears the “Go List,” so you need to remember to delete all those songs before taking a chance on an update.

Also, I haven’t found a playlist editor yet that can see the “Go List”, so I have to do all the deleting on the player and it takes several minutes per track.

@once_burned wrote:

I wish there was some easy-to-find web page telling us when they come out.

Just bookmark the Sansa Fuze forum page – it’s pretty easy to find since you already found it… :wink:

http://forums.sandisk.com/sansa/board?board.id=sansafuse


As an aside, it's funny that the url for the Fuze forum page spells it "sansafu<font color="#ff0000"><strong>s</strong></font>e."

Message Edited by Robisan on 03-30-2009 12:55 PM

Tapeworm writes, “Maybe I’m missing something here, but why would you bother to go through the time to put songs on your player if you’re only going to delete them?”

Well, here’s how mine got that way. I dumped everything on my Mac and my PC/Laptop onto the Fuze; i added some albums later – from which I had already excerpted some songs that were already on the Fuze. Like a lot of newbies, i got confused between MSC and MTP. And even when I pull all the contents onto a working file on the PC, the songs in each album don’t appear in the general song list, but rather, as contents under the  album filename. So there are a lot of duplicates.

Another reason that it would be slightly to moderately easier to be able to zap duplicate songs right from the Fuze: I loaded a few dozen some albums that might have only a couple of songs on them that i would like – after checking them out on the Fuze. Then i could zap, immediately,the trash, while its title is in front of me (but I might forget that title by the time I bring everything up on the PC File menu).

This is not a problem looking for an answer, but an answer to your question. Hope this answers your query.

Chris in VA. 

@once_burned wrote:

Given the time-consuming and manual-intensive process for deleting an unwanted song, I do this instead:  Add it to the “Go List” playlist (which I’ve configured to do when I hold down the center button) and skip to the next track.  Then later on, when I have time, I go through the list and delete all the songs I’ve put on it.

That’s not a bad workaround, at least it sounds like the Fuze won’t hose it up on refresh. I’m constantly trying out new music on my Fuze, and if I don’t like it I delete it. I’m deleting stuff all the time, so being able to conveniently delete an album would be extremely handy. I suppose for people who listen to the same stuff over and over again, its a non-issue. On my iPod, I used to use the ratings to denote songs to delete, but ratings are also broken on the Fuze. I have enough stuff to remember without having to make “mental notes” to work around all the Fuze’s deficiencies.

Is there a way to see the contents of the Go List in MSC mode? A search didn’t turn up anything too obvious.

Message Edited by bdb on 03-30-2009 02:18 PM

:stuck_out_tongue:1 day Sansa

Can’t wait!:smiley: Although I think hopes are too high on this one, so you might get disappointed. However, you might not, so, whatever!:smiley:

@yelped wrote:
Can’t wait!:smiley: Although I think hopes are too high on this one, so you might get disappointed. However, you might not, so, whatever!:smiley:

You may be right on this…some of the people are acting awfully excited.:wink:

I’m so excited about the firmware coming out eventually, that I’m going to do this:

@fuze_owner_gb wrote:

I’m so excited about the firmware coming out eventually, that I’m going to do this:

 

Imagine the uproar if it’s not out before midnight!

I am sitting here hitting F5 every 2 seconds.

Come on come on!  

I would laugh so hard if the new firmware didn’t contain any new features, just bug fixes…

@fuze_owner_gb wrote:
I would laugh so hard if the new firmware didn’t contain any new features, just bug fixes…

That’s fine, as long as the 4000 track limit bug is fixed.

I can’t imagine having 4000 tracks on my Fuze:smiley:

@marvin_martian wrote:
I can’t imagine having 4000 tracks on my Fuze:smiley:

I’ve got over 5000, but it can’t see them all. (It’s not full either).

@fifer wrote:


@marvin_martian wrote:
I can’t imagine having 4000 tracks on my Fuze:smiley:


I’ve got over 5000, but it can’t see them all. (It’s not full either).

I like Quality over Quantity! I have like 675 right now of high quality Ogg files. I cant imaging dropping the quality enough to fit 4000 songs. Now If you have an 8 gig player with a 16 gig card, I can see haveing a lot of files but no where near 4,000 songs, at that point i would do videos or pictures or even use it as a flash drive.

@conversionbox wrote:


@fifer wrote:


@marvin_martian wrote:
I can’t imagine having 4000 tracks on my Fuze:smiley:


I’ve got over 5000, but it can’t see them all. (It’s not full either).


I like Quality over Quantity! I have like 675 right now of high quality Ogg files. I cant imaging dropping the quality enough to fit 4000 songs. Now If you have an 8 gig player with a 16 gig card, I can see haveing a lot of files but no where near 4,000 songs, at that point i would do videos or pictures or even use it as a flash drive.

Agreed! I have a 4GB + 8GB card, 2,254 songs, and 379mb free. If I had a 16GB card, I could maybe hit 3,700 or so. :wink:

@marvin_martian wrote:


@conversionbox wrote:


@fifer wrote:


@marvin_martian wrote:
I can’t imagine having 4000 tracks on my Fuze:smiley:


I’ve got over 5000, but it can’t see them all. (It’s not full either).


I like Quality over Quantity! I have like 675 right now of high quality Ogg files. I cant imaging dropping the quality enough to fit 4000 songs. Now If you have an 8 gig player with a 16 gig card, I can see haveing a lot of files but no where near 4,000 songs, at that point i would do videos or pictures or even use it as a flash drive.


Agreed! I have a 4GB + 8GB card, 2,254 songs, and 379mb free. If I had a 16GB card, I could maybe hit 3,700 or so. :wink:

You still have 3x the space I have. And I do this for a reason.

@conversionbox wrote:


@marvin_martian wrote:


@conversionbox wrote:


@fifer wrote:


@marvin_martian wrote:
I can’t imagine having 4000 tracks on my Fuze:smiley:


I’ve got over 5000, but it can’t see them all. (It’s not full either).


I like Quality over Quantity! I have like 675 right now of high quality Ogg files. I cant imaging dropping the quality enough to fit 4000 songs. Now If you have an 8 gig player with a 16 gig card, I can see haveing a lot of files but no where near 4,000 songs, at that point i would do videos or pictures or even use it as a flash drive.


Agreed! I have a 4GB + 8GB card, 2,254 songs, and 379mb free. If I had a 16GB card, I could maybe hit 3,700 or so. :wink:


You still have 3x the space I have. And I do this for a reason.

Oh, I know. You have a whole crapload more music than I do, and the smaller space is like your current rotation. Makes sense to me…and it’s why I didn’t bother running out and buying the 16GB card when my taxes came back…cause I can’t listen to all that music at once.