SanDisk Sansa Fuze+ MP3 (blue, 8GB)

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• 9 stars

  Great player for the money.

  by saylerboi on October 26, 2011

  Pros: Nice (though tiny) screen.
  Durable - I've dropped it several times (with silicone case)and still works great.
  Reads metadata accurately - not as common as you would think.
  Seamless memory card integration - nearly unheard of.
  Is not an Apple or Microsoft

  Cons: User interface has steep learning curve, requires light and accurate touch. It does weird stuff if you take your aggression out on it.
  Takes outrageous amount of time to refresh memory if you've changed anything.
  Used to occasionally freeze up and make

  Summary: I have had my Fuze + for a few months and I am very please that I got it. It did take a while to get used to the UI but ...

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  Summary: I have had my Fuze + for a few months and I am very please that I got it. It did take a while to get used to the UI but I no longer even think about it. I had the previous Fuze, and I can navigate around much faster on the Fuze +. Took me a couple of weeks to get used to it though. Playlists are not buried AT ALL. The only things that are buried too deep are the EQ settings, but I figured out that with a decent pair of phones it sounds better with no EQ anyway. Most of my music is in FLAC format and I use iGrado phones and I am perfectly content with the sound quality. If sound quality is important, pay more attention to what actually goes on your ears and the quality of the music file than the gadget that's playing it back - within reason of course. Before I bought it I looked and listened to every mp3 player under $100 I could find, I shopped for months (really) and this was no impulse buy. For the same money, nothing else comes close.

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• 3 stars

  Old Sansa Fuse was better but . .

  by nein9 on March 17, 2013

  Pros: Volume setting
  Screen size
  On /off button and lock
  Price

  Cons: Oversensitive touch screen.
  Continously getting lost in the labyrinthine filing system.

  Summary: I should have returned it to the vendor. The old Sansa Fuse was fine . . . . except for the fact that they seemed to have a shelf life. If they could have ...

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  Summary: I should have returned it to the vendor. The old Sansa Fuse was fine . . . . except for the fact that they seemed to have a shelf life. If they could have improved it's reliability this would have been far better than developing something that is impossible to use. I will probably end up jumping on it

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• 3 stars

  Poor MP3 Audiobook Player, and controls hard to use.

  by mo-line9 on September 18, 2012

  Pros: -Excellent internal memory capacity, and option to add even more capacity through a micro SD card.
  -Screen resolution is excellent.

  Cons: -Very poor player for MP3 audiobooks.
  -New touch controls are poor.
  -Power button at top of unit hard to use.
  -SanDisk tech support for Sansa Fuze+ very poor.

  Summary: I can't talk about how this player functions for "Audible" audiobooks, since I do not use that service. However, I predominately use this player for playing MP3 audiobooks and ...

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  Summary: I can't talk about how this player functions for "Audible" audiobooks, since I do not use that service. However, I predominately use this player for playing MP3 audiobooks and the Sansa Fuze+ fails at this task big-time. When one or more MP3 audiobooks are loaded into the Sansa Fuze+ it treats each file, which can be either a track or chapter of a given audiobook, as a separate audiobook. So if you load one audiobook with thirty files (e.g. tracks or chapters) the Sansa Fuze+ indicates you just loaded thirty (30) audiobooks not one! To make matters worse if you load more than one MP3 audiobook it does the same thing to each MP3 audiobook, and then mixes the tracks or chapters, listing all chapter 1's together, then all chapter 2's together, etc. You also can't click on the first chapter or track of a specific MP3 audiobook and have the Sansa Fuze+ automatically play all the related chapters or tracks in sequence. If you create and load a playlist for a specific MP3 audiobook, which is then displayed not under the "Audiobook" menu, but hidden under the "Music" menu (sub-menu "Playlists", and then select it the MP3 audiobook may play correctly, or it may not.
  As for the touch controls on the Sansa Fuze+ they are extremely overly sensitive. Like other players on the market the controls use sensors to recognize your touch by way of your body heat from your fingers. Unfortunately, if you lay the Sansa Fuze+ in your hand, with the back of the player against your palm, the sensors pickup the heat from your palm and assume you are making control selections, and the player makes random menu selections. To keep this from happening you must hold the Sansa Fuze+ off your palm, using your fingers on the thin sides of the player. The controls are also hard to use if your hands are cold, since the sensors aren't picking up enough heat from your finger to register what you want done.
  I've talked with SanDisk tech support regarding MP3 Audiobook problems and they had me reload the firmware multiple times to correct the problems, but nothing worked. They then sent me a replacement Sansa Fuze+, but it still had the same MP3 audiobook problems. So they had me load the firmware updates multiple times on the replacement Sansa Fuze+, but again nothing resolved the problems. At one point they even told me a new firmware update was just posted that corrects these problems, but when I noted the latest firmware update was dated July 2011 (it was August 2012 when I was talking to them) the SanDisk tech person told me they just updated the firmware but frequently don't update the firmware date. Yeah right! If you're laughing now I understand. No software engineer would ever do that.
  The Sansa Fuze+ is a real let-down as a MP3 audiobook player! The older Sansa Fuze player was a much better player. It easily supported MP3 audiobooks, and the controls were easier to use.

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• 6 stars

  Gets the its job done

  by BleachedCrayon on September 15, 2012

  Pros: -Micro sd slot

  Cons: -Horrible controls
  -slow
  -Feels more like and looks like a cellphone

  Summary: It plays music like it should. I can't come up with many good things that I loved about it. It's slow the controls are crap and frustrating. It ...

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  Summary: It plays music like it should. I can't come up with many good things that I loved about it. It's slow the controls are crap and frustrating. It feel like a cellphone, looks like cell phone. It lasted a year though surprisingly. I put mp3 player through a lot. Nothing really stands out about it. It's just an mp3 play with awful controls that looks and feels like a cellphone that plays ok music.
  
  I would recommend it to anyone. I have cheaper mp3s that have worked better than this one. It gets the job done.

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• 1 stars

  Compared to its predecessor, a major step backwards

  by timboytx on July 10, 2012

  Pros: Compact, attractive, lightweight

  Cons: Ambiguous, inexact interface; no looping of feature list at "home" level; extreme overshoot when scrolling

  Summary: The navigation system is profoundly frustrating and confusing. Even after reading and re-reading the instruction manual, the interface remains ambiguous, inexact, and far from instinctual. The manual may help the ...

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  Summary: The navigation system is profoundly frustrating and confusing. Even after reading and re-reading the instruction manual, the interface remains ambiguous, inexact, and far from instinctual. The manual may help the user understand how the navigation controls are SUPPOSED to work, but sliding one's finger over the interface doesn't always produce the result one is going for. I miss the definite, unambiguous tactical "click" of the earlier Fuze. Furthermore, time and again there is extreme overshoot, when options zip by way too fast to be selected, causing one to have to slide back the other way again and again to zero in on the target. A product this basic should not be this difficult. A great disappointment.

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• 3 stars

  My fuse+ died today. Well, it's dead to me, anyway.

  by halfdoghalfdeer on May 29, 2012

  Pros: It's cheap enough. Long battery life. And the memory expansion slot was a nice thought, but I never wound up using it.

  Cons: The controls are a joke, and the USB miniport crapped out on me.

  Summary: This thing was never ending frustration for me. As many of the other customer reviews have related, the controls go from being completely unresponsive one moment to overly sensitive the ...

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  Summary: This thing was never ending frustration for me. As many of the other customer reviews have related, the controls go from being completely unresponsive one moment to overly sensitive the next. I had it for just over a year, and was never able to figure out it's quirks. The menu system was cumbersome, but got a little better with firmware updates. The final straw was the USB miniport falling apart on me. I didn't even use the port that often, but after a while the cable wouldn't sit snugly inside, so I'd have to gingerly connect it then not touch the player while it was charging or uploading files. Finally the port simply quit working, rendering the otherwise working device completely useless. Well, I guess there's that extra memory slot I could use until the battery runs down for the final time. My next player, which I'm buying tomorrow, will definitely be something else.

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• 3 stars

  A Step Down From the Original Fuze Player

  by AeidosNemisis on April 30, 2012

  Pros: sleek, low price, many features, miniSD slot.

  Cons: Bad interface, awful touchpad control, battery and power problems.

  Summary: The touch-pad is often too sensitive - a brush with something will change the track - but at other times you will tap and tap, and nothing will happen. It ...

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  Summary: The touch-pad is often too sensitive - a brush with something will change the track - but at other times you will tap and tap, and nothing will happen. It is a pain to navigate the Fuze+'s menu, and it isn't easy to set up playlists or play them, for some reason they're buried and hard to get to. I've frequently had trouble with the batteries with the Fuze+, and had to return 2 units to the store before I found one that worked (that should have been my first clue!) I loved my Sansa Fuse before it's untimely death in my washer, and I thought I'd love the Fuze+ too, but now I wish I'd purchased something else.

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• 3 stars

  Controls are out of control

  by jwmeyer99 on March 10, 2012

  Pros: Looks good, expandable with micro memory card, battery appears long lasting so far, charges with both outlet and USB chargers provided.

  Cons: Hangs, jumps, crashes, freezes, locks up

  Summary: I wouldn't recommend this unless you buy it in a way that allows for returns after you try it a few days. Mine has some major problem every day. ...

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  Summary: I wouldn't recommend this unless you buy it in a way that allows for returns after you try it a few days. Mine has some major problem every day. Controls can't be called "sensitive" because often nothing happens when I press them. Then it will jump 5 or ten places ahead. Also screen goes blank to save energy, fine, but then won't come back on no matter what you press, and it's just playing away, dark and out of control. This is dollar store type junk. Might be worth a try if you get a bargain and can return it after you try it.

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• 9 stars

  Great performance for really good value

  by newmi on January 11, 2012

  Pros: nice looking, good sound quality, long battery life, really good value

  Cons: UI is bad. It is hard to use. Response of touch buttons is slow.

  Summary: Mp3 and video player for great value. Expect the bad UI, I like this player. Sometime it freeze for few seconds in video menu. Anyway the sound quality is better ...

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  Summary: Mp3 and video player for great value. Expect the bad UI, I like this player. Sometime it freeze for few seconds in video menu. Anyway the sound quality is better than at my previous mp3 (iRiver X20). You can' t expect great sound quality, great features, great UI, great screen for 62€. For that price you get the best :)
  
  Updated on Jan 11, 2012

  * You can' t expect great sound quality, great features, great UI, great screen for 62euro. For that price you get the best :)

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• 4 stars

  WHICH OVERPAID EXECUTIVE LET THIS OUT OF THE FACTORY?

  by 550wins on August 29, 2011

  Pros: Sound quality and storage capacity are it's big selling points.

  Cons: UNUSABLE Controls, NO recently added feature, I had issues with it crashing for no reason

  Summary: SERIOUS downgrade from the Fuze. The Swipe technology for the controls is Extremely frustrating to use. If you tried to go just one step it goes 4 or 5 steps ...

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  Summary: SERIOUS downgrade from the Fuze. The Swipe technology for the controls is Extremely frustrating to use. If you tried to go just one step it goes 4 or 5 steps past. Or the lag was so bad you didn't think it registered so you swipe it again and it catches up and goes past where you wanted it. With a capacity of 3000 songs WHY!!! would you eliminate the recently added feature from the Menu??? You can add a song and Not hear it for a month unless you tried searching through the menus for it Good luck with that. I also had frequent issues with the system would play a song or two and just crash with a loud buzzing sound for no apparent reason. I had to hold the power button for 10-15 seconds to shut it off. When I turn it back on it would reload all the songs which took 4-5 minutes. Not worth the frustration. I finally whacked the screen and cracked the LCD screen inside the cover. I didn't even think I whacked it that hard. It was probably inevitable considering how many times I wanted to fling it down the street. I've liked the Clip, Clip+, And Fuze, But Fuze+ was a big mistake that looks pretty in the box until you expose it to the air and the gremlins come out of hiding.

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