Sansa Fuze-cheap, easy to use, and solid
This is my review for the sansa fuze 8GB: I have had a sansa fuze 4gb for 2 years and my sister needed a new mp3 player, so I bought this one and gave her my old 4GB. I have had very minimal problems with the fuze. It syncs with wmp11 very nicely. Playlists work great. WMP11 and 12 are excellent programs, despite what others say. I love having the same playlist structure on windows as my fuze. This thing handles large playlists quite nicely. I have several playlists that exceed 200 songs. it takes about 5-8 secs to load them. The go list is a nice feature, you can make a playlist (up to 200 songs on the latest firmware update-50 on older ones prior to v 1.02.xx) right on the player. great for trips. Audio playback is clear and this has a great Digital Signal Processor>makes the songs on it sound wider and clearer in addition to several EQ presets+one custom.Even 128Kbps files sound good.battery life is decent and best at 128Kbps-192Kbps mp3 files, and 15% display brightness. I can get 18-22 hours with custom EQ engaged. I get 4.5 hours of video playback. Video support is nice. Used an app called SUPER to re-encode, then used SMC to put on the player, works great. Video and audio sync work great. This has a picture viewer as well. You can even use SMC to resize photos and transfer them to your fuze. I have made great use of this by putting directions to certain locations on it by screencapping map sites routes, putting them into a few pages, then inverting the colors for better viewing, then loading them onto the fuze. I can also do this with text files so I can read some things while listening to music. The only thing I can see to make this sooooo much better is to make it so you can zoom in. using the wheel on it would be good. They need to do this so bad so you can see the images better. SD support is a HUGE plus. Now the only flaws I see (that could easily be fixed in a firmware update) are the following: The UI isn't very customizable, you only get to choose from a handful of BG colors, more colors would be nice. You only have pink,blue,bluegreen,another shade of blue, orange, and green.also would like to have detailed stats on playlists like total play time, total file size of playlist, etc... Also, in the info screen >settings>system settings>info would show the total play time of all music. inability to zoom in on photos. this could extend the use of the player drastically for having maps and directions or stories and articles stored on it.
remixedcat
Parkersburg, WV