My 8g Sansa View sounds good and work good most of the time but with an 8g microsdhc has to refresh the database every time I start it up. At times it also shows the wrong album art for the song that is playing.

On the plus side, the battery life is excellent. Sometimes I listen with it plugged in so I can see the album art when the songs change.

So in for 1. I though I would try the fuze to see if there is any difference in load time and behavior with the album art.

As far as FM transmitters go, I have had good results with the iRiver transmitter, and I live close to lots of fairly powerful stations.

http://www.amazon.com/iriver-AFT-100-Mobile-Transmitter/dp/B00067LYFW is the Amazon link.

What is a "quality post?" I can't seem to qualify. So, what do I have to do to turn my future posts into quality posts?

I have videos in MP4 and M4V formats that I view on my laptop. Do these still need to be converted to view on the Fuze?

It's Sansa-stic!

petepete11 wrote:I don't have this but it's worth a try: Less than $10 for a Sansa Fuze charger/transmitter! I'd have bought it if I didn't get a car stereo with a line in recently.

http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-10008-SNSATA-iTrip-Transmitter-Charger/dp/B000IN004K/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1285011846&sr=1-1

I have this similar FM transmitter that I used for my Sansa E260 and I highly recommend it for the very strong output signal. Even in areas like Boston and DC I still was able to get a clear signal. Since I use different vehicles for work hard wiring is not an option.

this is great. i have a 4GB sansa that i bought several years ago and love it.

i run rockbox on it (www.rockbox.org) which is very flexible and easy to use.

mine just got crushed in my electric car seat the otherday. in for 1 at this deal.

artjunkie wrote:This looks like a steal at this price. At Overstock, the 2GB refurb is $35.99. http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/SanDisk-Sansa-Fuze-2-GB-Multimedia-MP3-Player-Refurbished/4136469/product.html?cid=123620&fp=F&mr:trackingCode=57E5ED33-52C1-DF11-98FF-0019B9C043EB&mr:referralID=NA

At Amazon, you'll find this for $73.99 new, $49.99 refurbished. http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Sansa-Video-Player-Silver/dp/B0015KYV3Q

You can't have too many Sansas. I -lost- my Sansa clip+ a few weeks ago, and had to fall back on my e260 which is, by comparison, gigante. And, as luck would have it, Woot didn't have any Sansas for sale. Not a one. For weeks. So I had to break down and buy a refurb from TigerDirect, $29.95, for a 4-gig Clip+. I really really like the clip+, but it's soooooo tiny that I lose it all the time. I finally found my original clip+, but now I'm thinking "Hey! You might lose your first clip and your replacement clip! What then?" So I'm in for the Fuze. 8 gigs is a buncha gigs even before you stuff something in the SD slot. And now I can leave a Sansa in every room AND leave one in the car and never lose one again. Unless... unless... Criminy. Where's my car?

I bought one of these refurbished the last time it was up.. P.O.S.! Total waste of money, freezes constantly. Needs to be re-refurbished. dont buy.

StormRiider wrote:Got the blue ring of death thing on my E280 not long ago. I actually burned the linux CD and started the recovery process, but then I read on another forum about the little black tab above the battery compartment. Do a google search on sansa blue ring of death and you'll find the instructions, it was real simple for me just to push the black plastic tab back in and that restored it.

Thanks, StormRiider! Now I have a working E260, the 4GB Fuze I bought during my flu-spell last week and today's spite purchase.

What I'll do with 3, I don't know.

FYI for cleaning:

The wheel clogs up after a bit of abuse. (Gardening, ect.) When that happens, use a q-tip and a bit of hydrogen peroxide. Just smear a little bit of the hydrogen peroxide around the wheel using the q-tip. Give it a few minutes to dry. As good as new.

Don't try to take it apart. The wheel's cable is so tight you're likely to snap the fastener when opening. (I speak from experience. :p) Hydrogen peroxide all the way.

rrlewand wrote:I bought one of these refurbished the last time it was up.. P.O.S.! Total waste of money, freezes constantly. Needs to be re-refurbished. dont buy.

As a Sansa Veteran, I have advice for this problem. Do a hard reset if necessary and keep your firmware updated on these babies. Download it from Sandisk.com. Install. Attach Sansa player to PC and it should guide you thru the rest of the process. I have an old m140, e260, and Express that keep on keepin' on. Surprisingly they are updated fairly frequently.

Wait... The Last Lie is on audiobook? My mother listens to Stephen White on her Fuze all the time and claimed it wasn't yet released on audio or in large print. The result is that I had to read the book aloud to her. Was I tricked into spending time with my mother? :p Devious. At least I got some free dinners out of it. :D

ILGal wrote:I use my 4 GB almost exclusively for audio books. I do a little housekeeping with the files first and it works like a charm. Make these changes on your computer, before transferring the files to the Fuze.

I use MP3Tag to make 3 quick changes to the files.

Begin by opening MP3 tag and using Change Directory to open the folder containing all the subfolders (discs) and tracks. CTRL+A to select all.

1: rename all tracks with the single "album" name (the name of the book). Instead of the book (album name) being "The Last Lie, Disc 1", "The Last Lie, Disc 2", etc. rename every track on every file with the album name of "The Last Lie".

2: Use the AutoRenumbering Wizard to renumber all the tracks sequentially, so instead of 5 discs with 10 tracks each, each numbered 1-10, you now have 50 tracks numbered 1-50. You can add leading zeros if you are concerned it might file tracks as 1, 10, 11, etc. (though I've not had a problem with that)

3: Set the genre of all tracks to Audiobook. This flags the Sansa so that you can switch to music, or another book, and have it return to where you left off. I always put the resulting file into the Audio book file on the Sansa, for good measure.

The whole process takes maybe 1-2 minutes and solves any problems with mis-ordered music files.

If you want, before you tag as above with MP3 tag, download a product like ReNamer and rename all the individual tracks as Album Name Disc N Track n. I like adding this step because then the name of the album and track display in the window while the book is playing. Then, within MP3Tag, you can use the mapping tool to map the file name (that you mass-assigned with ReName) to the Title (track name, not album name) on each track. Adding the step increases your handling time another few minutes, depending on how many discs are in audio books.

Have fun!!

rrlewand wrote:I bought one of these refurbished the last time it was up.. P.O.S.! Total waste of money, freezes constantly. Needs to be re-refurbished. dont buy.

I've purchased 3 of these from Woot and another 2 from Newegg. All refurbished and worked great. The people I've given them to as gifts still use them. One even ditched his Ipod nano in favor of it.

You got a bad one, but that's what the 90-day warranty is for.

jjfahey wrote:I own Views, Fuzes, Clips and a couple of the E280 series, and the Fuze is the superior footprint. I'm waiting for a 32Gb Fuze, not wanting to add external RAM. ... Now just need 32Gb !

Why? At an average 1MB per minute of music, why would you need 22 days worth of continuous music? You know that the battery won't hold out that long, right?

rrlewand wrote:I bought one of these refurbished the last time it was up.. P.O.S.! Total waste of money, freezes constantly. Needs to be re-refurbished. dont buy.

refurbs are normaly better than new since it proves the player has a working element and what ever week link the player had is now solved (hense refurb).

robertey wrote:Do not purchase refurbished electronics that have a rechargeable battery. I had bad luck with a refurbished iRiver some years ago, as well as a refurbished laptop. Both have less than a quarter of their claimed battery life, because the original batteries were never replaced. An mp3 player with 20 GB of storage is useless if it only has enough battery life on each charge for 90 minutes of playtime.

From personal experience, I disagree. I have a 4.5 year old ipod color that I bought refurbished, and it still gets about 11-12 hours of battery life. Rockbox might have something to do with that, but who knows.

Do these fuzes do gapless playback, or will I need to rockbox it to get that feature?

GregoryLikesCheapStu wrote:FYI for cleaning:

The wheel clogs up after a bit of abuse. (Gardening, ect.) When that happens, use a q-tip and a bit of hydrogen peroxide. Just smear a little bit of the hydrogen peroxide around the wheel using the q-tip. Give it a few minutes to dry. As good as new.

Don't try to take it apart. The wheel's cable is so tight you're likely to snap the fastener when opening. (I speak from experience. :p) Hydrogen peroxide all the way.

That's how I was told to clean my belly button.

GregoryLikesCheapStu wrote:Wait... The Last Lie is on audiobook? My mother listens to Stephen White on her Fuze all the time and claimed it wasn't yet released on audio or in large print. The result is that I had to read the book aloud to her. Was I tricked into spending time with my mother? :p Devious. At least I got some free dinners out of it. :D

I signed up on the waiting list at my library and picked it up a couple of days ago. Haven't started listening to it. It's 12 discs (!!!) and once I'm finished with "The Neighbor" I'll be back in Colorado with Alan Gregory! Woo hoo!!

Also available at the Overdrive Media Mall, if your library subscribes...

Here's what it looks like in my Overdrive web site.

I have a couple E260's, a View, a Connect and a Fuze...love them all. I use the exclusively for MP3 podcasts and audiobooks. The fuze isn't RockBoxed and still OK. They all bookmark where I left off automatically so i can "Resume Playback" even in the middle of a word. No playlist is needed if you're creative naming (numerically)the cuts and put them into their own file folder.
The E260 which I use the most has an easily replaceable battery ($13.00 online) and has failed twice...the earjack broke the printed run from rough use. A small drop of solder fixed it each time in about 15-25 minutes "surgery" ...easy!

Installing Rockbox! rockbox.org

quantamm wrote:Why? At an average 1MB per minute of music, why would you need 22 days worth of continuous music? You know that the battery won't hold out that long, right?

So you can put all yer stuff on it, and not have to hassle anymore. Except of course for that great new album that just came out. And that one you forgot to put on before. And don't forget to delete those couple you're getting sick of. Oh, were you sick of that one? Now you're missing it. And...

So where's my free personality test? ;]

missmonkey wrote:My first "woot" EVER!..yippee for me!

same here XD

missmonkey wrote:My first "woot" EVER!..yippee for me!

same here XD

NightGhost wrote:So you can put all yer stuff on it, and not have to hassle anymore. Except of course for that great new album that just came out. And that one you forgot to put on before. And don't forget to delete those couple you're getting sick of. Oh, were you sick of that one? Now you're missing it. And...

Okay, then, but how do you ever find the song you're looking for in 32GB of music?

NightGhost wrote:So you can put all yer stuff on it, and not have to hassle anymore. Except of course for that great new album that just came out. And that one you forgot to put on before. And don't forget to delete those couple you're getting sick of. Oh, were you sick of that one? Now you're missing it. And...

Okay, then, but how do you ever find the song you're looking for in 32GB of music?

DameEdithDivine wrote:What is a "quality post?" I can't seem to qualify. So, what do I have to do to turn my future posts into quality posts?

At Woot HQ, they print out several posts at a time, tape them to the wall, and then fire a Woot!(tm) slingshot screaming monkey at them. Whichever one poor Mortimer hits, is a "quality post".

But why would you want one? You don't get any discount or special privileges? Let it go, let it go.

tesla33 wrote:Got a 4 gig refurb last year. It lasted until the warranty was up, then froze.

had that happen to me. had to take the back cover off and hit the reset button. worked just fine for me after that.

dainness wrote:Ayep, I just looked at my account and I have wooted 8 different times for Sansa players. I must be a junky.

Me too, have the original little silver ones, 2 e260's, 2 clips, 1 fuse and getting 2 more of these!!!

Katonklin wrote:Me too, have the original little silver ones, 2 e260's, 2 clips, 1 fuse and getting 2 more of these!!!

To add for anyone who might yet read this, I use mine almost exclusively to record - radio, computer talks, classes, online talks..... Then I transfer these to the computer and record some more. I also tend to lose things and can always find one that is charged and ready to go.

jimmythewoot wrote:You can't have too many Sansas. I -lost- my Sansa clip+ a few weeks ago, and had to fall back on my e260 which is, by comparison, gigante. And, as luck would have it, Woot didn't have any Sansas for sale. Not a one. For weeks. So I had to break down and buy a refurb from TigerDirect, $29.95, for a 4-gig Clip+. I really really like the clip+, but it's soooooo tiny that I lose it all the time. I finally found my original clip+, but now I'm thinking "Hey! You might lose your first clip and your replacement clip! What then?" So I'm in for the Fuze. 8 gigs is a buncha gigs even before you stuff something in the SD slot. And now I can leave a Sansa in every room AND leave one in the car and never lose one again. Unless... unless... Criminy. Where's my car?

Love it!

Anyone buy an extra one they want to sell? Seems I was a bit late.

readingexcalibur wrote:mine just got crushed in my electric car seat the otherday. in for 1 at this deal.

Hmmm...must be the brand then . My husband crushed my son's in HIS car seat a few months back. Now I get to replace with a better model!

readingexcalibur wrote:refurbs are normaly better than new since it proves the player has a working element and what ever week link the player had is now solved (hense refurb).

I completely agree...We've purchased several refurbed electronic items (Kitchenaid, Sansas, LCD TV's...have NEVER been disappointed...)

Was waiting for one...never thought it would be 8gig!! I am waiting for it to ship (right now) will post-in my experience soon

Happy wootingg!!

Received Tracking # and shipped

Mine left Dallas today...Smartposting its way north.