This is a great buy and I am seriously thinking of buying another one..to go with my e28o, my two clips and the Fuse 4GB I already have.

I stab Sansa and I have not had any trouble with the players I own.

This model is a very good one. I have rock boxed other players I have, but the controls on this model are good enough that I didnt feel the need to.

This is a good buy, I am gonna get another one to have as a back up

vulcansdad wrote:Just remember Wootistas, these things are not MAC friendly.
It took me days to learn the secret code so I could get my 8GB Fuze to download music, podcasts, books, anything. Still haven't figured out video.

No problems on my Mac. Just drag and drop. There are no "secrets" involved.

stuntdriver wrote:And then the bubble wrap envelope would cost another buck, then the label etc..

Plus the 45 pound TV that someone buys three of only costs $5. IMO it all balances out in our (the Buyers) favor. This particular MP3 ships for under $30, the most recent best deal on this play as a refurb was $29.99 plus $4.50 odd cents shipping.

So right now this is the absolute best deal on the web for this player period!

Adding to your comments the $5 also covers the labor to package the item and Woot has to have the ability to track a shipment once it leaves their building.

Haven't seen much mentioned in here about MediaMonkey being excellent at syncing audio podcasts to the Fuze. Bought one around this time last year and use it daily.

MediaMonkey definately help keep the podcasts in the right places. Automatic RSS downloading & tweaking the sync setup helps.

After some issues where it wouldn't recognize the microSD, I also found it helps if you keep the mp3 music on the microSD card and the podcasts on the internal memory.

Survived a road trip from Houston to Augusta GA in a day with lots of podcasts.

beyondforgiveness wrote:Is the Squaretrade warranty worth it on this?

Only you can answer that. If it gives out in 6 months, will smoke come out of your ears? Will the warranty give you peace of mind? If you answered "yes' to either of those questions, perhaps the warranty is for you.

As far as the math, look at it this way. In the long run, someone's going to make money from the transactions - either SquareTrade or it's customers. Guess which one?

I bought the 8 gig last time they had it. It's now my go to player. stab it. I popped another 8 gig SD card into it and it works perfectly. When I shuffle it goes between internal memory and SD card without a hitch. It does remember where you left off on podcasts. When I power off while listening to one it picks up right where I left off when I turn it back on.

jmbunkin wrote:Adding to your comments the $5 also covers the labor to package the item and Woot has to have the ability to track a shipment once it leaves their building.

True, but you can also just look at the total and decide it it's worth it to you. If a company sells a TV for $1500 with free shipping, you still rather buy it elsewhere for $5 plus $1000 shipping.

shaywalters wrote:I've run into that as well. I found that there is a USB Mode setting in the Sanza. Change it to MSC, and it will fix it. This might cause problems if you try to load music that has DRM on it, but I never use DRM music, so I always leave mine set on MSC mode.

Under which menu is the USB Mode setting ? Never had the problem until I read today's posts,now I'm getting it ! !

I am wondering if the fuze I bought is faulty after researching problems with volume levels...if it's on full blast, it still isn't even as loud as my Ipod on half volume.

cronomagical wrote:It does remember where it left off when it goes to sleep.

Only about 50-75 percent of the time in my case. It's most annoying feature (IMO) is "play all" is less than random. I have heard the same song play 3 out of 6 songs in a row (with over 600 songs on board).

What is the recording quality like on these things? I'm looking for a media player to record my voice lessons--would this be a good purchase?

skinnybean wrote:Am I missing something because the volume levels are way lower than my ipod? Even on full blast it's still not very loud.
Apart from that I am a huge fan.

There is a menu option under settings called "System Settings " there is then an option for "volume" and under that there is "normal" and "high" see if it's set at normal, if so change it to high,that may help.

I just bought one during the last woot, and dang if I'm not impressed with it! I had some 4gb microSD cards lying around, so I expanded it to 8 (and set up 2 cards with it so I can swap it like media). I think that next month I'll grab a 16gb card to take it to 20gb, which should still have the cost under 50 bucks for 20gb flash memory player. I've read that it's compatible with up to 32, but those are still pretty costly. Though you're not going to find a small player with 36gb of storage for as little as it would cost you to put those two things together.

What I like: It's little, it's cheap, the screen is surprisingly bright, colorful, and easy to see. I stab expansion... stab stab stab. I also appreciate that you can access it like a hard drive and just drag and drop files onto it without needing a cumbersome interface program that is either proprietary, poorly made, or a resource hog. I haven't run the battery down yet, because I'm still constantly plugging it in to screw around with it, but it seems good. I watched a little more than an hour of video at a stretch and the battery was holding up well. The interface is mostly intuitive, though the click positions on the wheel don't necessarily make a lot of sense. Left and right will skip forward or allow you to scan, up is play/pause, and down is menu. My fingers want up and down to be volume, but you turn the wheel for that (it's an actual wheel). So sometimes which motion will translate to which action in the menu aren't intuitive for me, it's not like it takes more than a few minutes of fiddling with it to get he system down.

What I don't like: It's a bit slow booting up. The video converter program is slow and has issues with certain video formats m4v(? Is that right? Whatever MSNBC offers their broadcasts in), VOB, and some others it just will not work with. HOWEVER, there is a free program called "Video4Fuze" that has crunched everything I've thrown at it! I have converted DVDs, video podcasts, other DivX files, and just about everything. It also seems to work a bit more quickly and reliably than the Sandisk converter. Also, you don't need your device connected to use it! you can dump videos in a folder and put them on at your leisure.

I wish I had a reason to buy a second one, because i would... but I already have too many MP3 players and people think I'm crazy.

The absolutely best player for audio books. Keeps your place and holds 5 or 6 unabridged books.

skinnybean wrote:I am wondering if the fuze I bought is faulty after researching problems with volume levels...if it's on full blast, it still isn't even as loud as my Ipod on half volume.

Yeah, I'm going to have to say that it's your Fuze or headphones (unless you're using the same for both). While it doesn't drive them ideally, my Fuze can drive my Grado SR225i headphones adequately at normal listening levels. Turning it all the way up won't make it unbearably loud, but I don't have any problem hearing. I don't know if you're having problems, now that I've reread your post, but I might see the same thing with my Zune30 (on half it's about as loud as the fuze on full), but that's only an issue with my harder to drive headphones. I used my Koss Plugs and I can't stand to turn the fuze close to all the way up.

In for another pair.

These are very nice units- great sound, battery,screen, filesystem, real scroll-wheel, rockbox.

I leave one attached to each reciever, boombox- anything w/ an input.

commercial free. yummy.


and they record very nicely.

we're up to 4 clips and 4 fuzes.

con: special power plug. (clip uses mini-usb) no wifi(drool).

duckfanbuck wrote:The hardest thing to do is watch the one you stab, stab someone else.

Yeah, because you must not have stabbed them properly! Otherwise there would be no question of stab for another...

kuma99 wrote:In for another pair.

These are very nice units- great sound, battery,screen, filesystem, real scroll-wheel, rockbox.

I leave one attached to each reciever, boombox- anything w/ an input.

commercial free. yummy.


and they record very nicely.

we're up to 4 clips and 4 fuzes.

con: special power plug. (clip uses mini-usb) no wifi(drool).

However, if the interface is compatible with the e200 series, you can get cables very cheaply from monoprice! I think they're under 2 dollars. I'm still trying to find enough things to order, but I'll put one of those in my basket and give it a shot. That connector is compatible with other players, so it's worth a shot. I was disappointed that it wasn't mini or micro usb, though.

jmbunkin wrote:Under which menu is the USB Mode setting ? Never had the problem until I read today's posts,now I'm getting it ! !

Settings - System Settings - USB Mode

The absolutely best player for audio books. Keeps your place and holds 5 or 6 unabridged books.

I've been looking for a reason to buy one of these to go with my clip - maybe I can have one dedicated to music and the other to books.... ! Or have music on the device and books in the microcards.... !

Got mine several days ago and I really like it. Absolutely terrific sound.

jmbunkin wrote:There is a menu option under settings called "System Settings " there is then an option for "volume" and under that there is "normal" and "high" see if it's set at normal, if so change it to high,that may help.

I checked that...I have no volume option in system settings.

I'm in for 2. We have a clip, which is fine and dandy, but I really would like something to play video on (my clunky iPod photo is the only other mp3 player I have) - and I think my wife would like having something like this for listening to her audio books - so 1 for me, and 1 for her for Christmas shhh don't tell!

I have a Sandisk Sansa Clip; it takes almost no jostling for the headphones to stop playing because they aren't connected 'just right', and holding it constantly isn't helpful. Does this have that problem?

Jonas4321 wrote:Um, force you to buy a ridiculously expensive data plan? Nope, my Fuze doesn't do that. Cost an arm and a leg to replace (even with the insurance)? Nope, just wait for Woot to offer the Fuze again like clockwork. Play music for 20+ hours straight on a charge? Nope, my Centro doesn't do that.

Then again, we are comparing smart phones to MP3 players, which seems more or less pointless...

Data access is optional, but I only pay $15 a month for UNLIMITED ACCESS (plus, it tethers to my laptop, to act as a wireless modem). And my Centro is also my phone, which I always have with me, so I carry one device instead of two. Oh, and my Centro also plays streaming internet audio, which is a good deal better than the junk on corporate FM radio. Oh, and my Centro can also sync to my wireless Bluetooth headphones. Heck, it can even tether to my laptop via Bluetooth. If your data plan sucks, that's your problem.

I guess if I ever get into a situation where I listen to 20 hours of music at a time, with no opportunity to charge the phone, then that will matter. But it hasn't happened yet.

And the "if you lose it" argument is ridiculous. IT'S MY CELL PHONE. I'm going to replace it, regardless of whether or not I also use it as a media player.

scruta01 wrote:This is a great player. My only complaint is that I have tried and tried, but I just can't get the playlist function to work the way it is suppose to.

I just can't seem to find anything that will make a playlist correctly for it.

Of course, part of it is that I am picky. I don't want to run a script, or have to edit the ID3 tags. I just want to drag and drop my playlist.

Google "Playlist Creator". I have used it with my Sansa e-series players and now the 8gb Fuze I wooted last month. It works great!

someone mentioned rockbox working on v2. where can I find that?

skinnybean wrote:I checked that...I have no volume option in system settings.

Pretty sure you are on the European settings (low volume) and using the newest firmware which doesn't give the volume option in system settings.

May have to use the "Reset factory settings" and change to either the USA or "rest of the world" rather than European. The only difference I can see between USA and Rest of the world is the radio display which displays as 99.9 and 99.90 respectively.

( Newest firmware also has that slot radio option on the main menu too.)

rossmans wrote:I purchased this mp3 play one of the thousand times it has been on woot. I stab it it works great i picked up an 8 gb micro sd card to go with. My only problem is that it imports many of my songs with (which work fine on windows media played) "unknown" for the artist.

I've had this problem with a Clip I was borrowing last week, and I'm worried that my new Fuze is going to do it too. Has anyone else run into this, and if so have you found a solution?

tomcat11 wrote:Pretty sure you are on the European settings (low volume) and using the newest firmware which doesn't give the volume option in system settings.

May have to use the "Reset factory settings" and change to either the USA or "rest of the world" rather than European. The only difference I can see between USA and Rest of the world is the radio display which displays as 99.9 and 99.90 respectively.

( Newest firmware also has that slot radio option on the main menu too.)

You superstar!!!!
It worked...I am cranking up the volume to 11!!

Thanks

biensurmacherie wrote:I've had this problem with a Clip I was borrowing last week, and I'm worried that my new Fuze is going to do it too. Has anyone else run into this, and if so have you found a solution?

The problem is not with the player it is with the MP3 tags in your songs. The player is just displaying what is tagged into the song.

biensurmacherie wrote:I've had this problem with a Clip I was borrowing last week, and I'm worried that my new Fuze is going to do it too. Has anyone else run into this, and if so have you found a solution?

find the folder with that particular group's/person's music in it (or if it's an individual file click that file). Then rightclick all of the selected music -> properties -> click the Summary tab -> click "Advanced" and then you'll have a place to enter all of the data about the file(s). You can then put in the artist's name, etc. Some of your files might not have been created with the appropriate metadata.

grumblegrumble wrote:dangit, just bought one off of mwave for 33, albeit it was new....

They're like 64 bucks on mwave. You must've gotten quite a sale.

skinnybean wrote:You superstar!!!!
It worked...I am cranking up the volume to 11!!

Thanks

Tip of the hat to you. Enjoy your player.

What's the battery life (estimated) for non-stop play?

NightGhost wrote:Settings - System Settings - USB Mode

Thanks. Holy herring,can't believe I missed that.

glendower wrote:find the folder with that particular group's/person's music in it (or if it's an individual file click that file). Then rightclick all of the selected music -> properties -> click the Summary tab -> click "Advanced" and then you'll have a place to enter all of the data about the file(s). You can then put in the artist's name, etc. Some of your files might not have been created with the appropriate metadata.

glendower is referring to editing the MP3 file in the computer before copying it to the player. Lots of ways to do that; MediaMonkey, Mp3tag, ect. Doing so prevents the dreaded Unknown form showing up.

And yes if the file shows "Unknown" on one of your players and you don't edit your tags it will show the same when copied to your next player. ( Because the problem is the file not the player. )

In for two. I've bought a couple C200s from Woot in the past, and I got a couple E200s in a Bag of Cabbage, and they've all been great (especially with Rockbox). However, there are noticeable issues with audio quality due to a lack of component shielding.

These Fuzes are known for their superb audio quality, and recent releases of Rockbox support them really well. I know I'm not saying anything that hasn't already been said by anyone else, but I just wanted to chime in with a good 'ol, "ME TOOO!2312!!!2111oneeleven"

Sansa really are the unsung heroes of digital audio players to me. And Rockbox just makes them that much more useful.

So what would I need to do to watch YouTube and Hulu videos on this?

My car has a usb port available for mp3 players, and I've never used it. We have our entire music collection in flac format. We have MediaMonkey.

Is this product the best option for playing music in the car?

Will the player stay charged through the usb port?

Thanks for any advice!