Hi I have a sansa fuze and have tried playing a very long piece of music (mix) as a song, but when I try to play it the fuze crashes - grey screen.
Is there a maximum file size for songs on the fuze or something?
Thanks very much
Your Fuze doesn’t know (or care) if the file it is playing is music or an audiobook. Some of those audiobook files are hours long, and people listem to them all the time with no problems.
Tell us a bit about the file and maybe we can help. What format is it? Where did it come from? Have you run error-checking (ChkDsk) on it? Is the ID3 tag garbage-free and in the correct format? Stuff like that.
Hi
The file is an mp3 file, 39Mb in size. If I put it into my PODCASTS folder, it plays fine, if I put it into my MUSIC folder then navigate to it to play it, when it gets to that song the Fuze crashes (grey screen).
Have tried this with various larger mp3 files and the same thing happens.
Thanks
Appreciate any help anyone might offer.
It’s not the filesize. I am listening to a 37MB FLAC file right now without problems.
No idea why it would play normally in Podcasts and not in Music.
But it’s usually tags that make the Fuze flip out. Try getting mp3tag and changing the tag version (until Tools/Option/Tags/Mpeg/Write) to ID3v2.3 ISO-8859-1. Which is a good thing to do with everything you put on the Fuze anyway.
Thanks for your help.
I will look into it but clearly it is rubbish f I need some sort of 3rd party software and to modify files just to play an mp3 on an mp3 player! WIll not be buying another sandisk player. Pity I didnt read about these issues before departing with my money.
@ronfinch wrote:
I will look into it but clearly it is rubbish f I need some sort of 3rd party software and to modify files just to play an mp3 on an mp3 player! WIll not be buying another sandisk player. Pity I didnt read about these issues before departing with my money.
Probably won’t be buying most of the other players on the market then either. Reading ID3 tags rather than file names on mp3 players has been the ‘standard’ for quite a while now.
Including the infamous and almighty
The problem is that ID3 tags are not standardized. iTunes does them one way. Windows Media Player does them another way. Some people put in their own tags. Some get them from online databases that have been made by not necessarily reliable users.Even the way the letterrs are read and displayed can vary: Linux and Apple use Unicode, Windows uses ISO-8859-1. It’s a lot for your player’s itty-bitty brain to handle.
If you use the Fuze as it is designed for ■■■■■-proofing–that is, rip your albums on Windows Media Player, download music via Rhapsody and semi-automate things with MTP mode, emulating the (proprietary) iTunes/iPod connection–you probably won’t have problems. But if you, like most of us, get mp3 files from all over the place, then taking the 10 seconds to standardize them with mp3tag is really not such a big deal.
The Fuze is overly picky about tags, no doubt about it. It should have more tolerance for variations. But other players have their own quirks. The Fuze is (or was, now that it has been discontinued) a bargain for its features and sound quality. .But hey–go look on some other players’ forums. No doubt they will be discussing the utter perfection and seamlessness of their players.
I am not an apple fan at all no idea why the poster above mentioned ipod.
Having to mess about with a third party programme in order to get an mp3 player to work properly clearly shows the design of the unit is at fault. I have had mp3 players made by various manufacturers and never had this sort of issue before.
Thanks for your help though I appreciate it. 
@ronfinch wrote:
I am not an apple fan at all no idea why the poster above mentioned ipod.
Having to mess about with a third party programme in order to get an mp3 player to work properly clearly shows the design of the unit is at fault. I have had mp3 players made by various manufacturers and never had this sort of issue before.
My point was that just about all mp3 players of recent manufactuer (including the above-mentioned de-facto standard Apple product by which all others are judged) use ID3 tags to sort, populate and display song information rather than file names. It is not a design flaw of SanDisk or any other brand on the market today.
Maybe your other players were of an older design where tags were not that critical, but if you want to use a newer device (regardless of manufacturer) you need to use a ‘third-party program’ to edit and optimize the tags so the player can read them. MP3Tag is free, easy and quick to make adjustments to said tags.
