SanDisk Sansa Fuze 4 GB MP3 Player Pink

SanDisk Sansa Fuze 4 GB MP3 Player Pink

With the SanDisk Sansa Fuze, you can fuse your portable entertainment, featuring 4 GB of storage. Listen, watch, and play all day with 24 hours of battery life and room for up to 1,000 songs**. Watch your favorite video clips on the Sansa Fuze’s 1.9-inch color screen. Measuring just 0.3 inches thin, the Sansa Fuze marks the next wave of music and video players.

Your portable music machine with 4 GB of storage. (Click image to view larger.)

The MicroSD/SDHC memory card slot means storage possibilities are essentially unlimited. (Click image to view larger.)

Smaller than a credit card and as thin as a pencil, the new Sansa Fuze MP3 player looks great–and has the brains to match. (Black player shown here; click image to view larger.)

Audio Player
Smaller than a credit card and as thin as a pencil, the new Sansa Fuze MP3 player looks great–and has the brains to match. With room for up to 1,000 songs**, you can listen all day long. Jam to FM radio with 40 preset stations, play with the built-in voice recorder, and listen to your favorite audiobooks wherever you go. And with 24 hours of battery life, you’re free to listen, watch, and play all day–literally.

Watch Your Favorite Videos
The Sansa Fuze comes with 4 GB of built-in memory enough to store 12-hour video playback segments. Watch your favorite video clips from wherever you are. To ensure speedy file transfers, the unit features a USB 2.0 connection. Simply connect the player to a PC, and start dragging files from your Windows Media Player 10 or 11 applications.

Expanded Capacity
With an option to extend the capacity, its MicroSD/SDHC memory card slot means storage possibilities are essentially unlimited. Expand your music collection, show albums of photos with up to 2,000 images**, and watch your favorite videos on those long trips.

Compatible Formats
The player supports MPEG4 video files and audio files saved in MP3, secure and unsecured WMA, WAV, Audible, and Overdrive file formats.

FM Radio
If you’re feeling like a break from your own tunes, or want to dial in the TV frequency at the gym, use the digital FM tuner. Save your favorites on the 40 user presets.

Voice Recorder
Use the voice recorder with built-in microphone to take memos, record meetings or lectures, or capture whatever else you might feel inclined to point a microphone at. When you’re ready, transfer your files for listening on your PC.

What’s in the Box
SanDisk Sansa Fuze 4 GB MP3 player (pink), earphones, USB 2.0 cable, quick start guide

* 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes; some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions; thus, it is not available for data storage

** Based on continuous audio playback at 128 kpbs MP3; video playback at 512 kbps/ MPEG 4; photos based on 1.7 MB average file size; battery life and performance might vary depending upon usage and settings; battery not replaceable.

User Ratings and Reviews

2 Stars Good hardware, but terribly frustrating to get music files organized on this player
While acknowledging the quality of the player and its features, I’m otherwise in complete agreement with the reviewer who HATE HATE HATEs this product. While I had little problem dragging and dropping music files to the player, the tools available to organize those files, and the instructions for doing so, are absolutely abysmal. The Fuze doesn’t recognize file folder organization (many MP3 players don’t), so you either have to have all your MP3 and WMA files tagged, and/or create playlists to organize your music. I have mostly WMA files on my computer, which I created either from my own CDs or by recording music off of the internet, and they are untagged. You can find freeware and shareware software to add tags to your files, if you have patience and several hours to spare to enter the information. As for playlists, the player comes with a mini-CD containing the Rhapsody player, but the user manual for the Fuze (available online as a PDF) doesn’t mention Rhapsody. Instead, it contains instructions on using Windows Media Player to create playlists and transfer them to your Fuze. Since I’m familiar with WMP playlists, I tried following those instructions–for well over an hour, before giving up. I was on the verge of sending the player back, but decided to try the Rhapsody Player. I was able to figure out how to create the playlists in Rhapsody and upload them to the Fuze. Modifying the playlists, or adding ID3 tag information (using a shareware program) and updating the player’s files with them, is another problem. But I’ve said enough. The bottom line is, if you have lots of time to spare and don’t mind figuring out on your own how to organize music files on the Fuze, or if most of your music files are already tagged, the hardware itself is a good value. Otherwise, look elsewhere for an MP3 player.

1 Star i HATE this product HATE HATE HATE
I would rate this product zero stars, but Amazon won’t let me.

I shopped for a long, long time before deciding on an *.mp3 player. I did tons of research looking for the quality for the money. Above ALL else, I wanted a device that would be simple to use. I did not want an iPod because I did not want to have iTunes snake its tendrils through every facet of my computer; all I wanted was a drag and drop. No frills, no fuss.

The Sansa Fuze is NOT what I wanted. The instruction manual refers to several different ways of putting music onto the player, and not one of them — including the drag and drop, and how do you screw that up? — works with any degree of regularity. The Sansa software forces you to install Rhapsody on your computer, though it’s a bid freaking mystery why; it seems impossible to use Rhapsody to put music on your player, and there aren’t even instructions for it in the manual. Half the time you plug the thing in, nothing happens. I am computer savvy; I have never in my life had this much difficulty with anything computer-related. Ever. I am absolutely stunned that a device this highly flawed and VEXING ever made it onto the market. I BOUGHT AN EIGHTY DOLLAR PAPER WEIGHT AND I JUST WISH I COULD HAVE MY MONEY BACK SO I COULD BUY AN IPOD!!!!

5 Stars Fuze vs. Sony Walkman NWZ-S616 – Fuze wins!
I bought a pink 4GB Fuze for my best friend and a red 4 GB Sony Walkman (NWZ-S616) for myself. I opened them both up when I got home to charge them and try them both out.

What they both have in common:

-sound great

-similar in size (Fuze is maybe 1/4″ wider)

-Both came with a few MP3s and a video already loaded on them.

-Both have an FM receiver that picked up all the local stations.

-Both (like most MP3 players) come with headphones and a USB cable for data transfer and charging.

-Both allow you to drag and drop files, or use Windows Media Player to add music, video, or pictures. Drag and drop worked well for MP3s on both players. I did not try using Media Player for either one.

I like the video quality on the Sony better. I like that the Sony has a longer battery life, though it does take longer to charge than the Fuze. I also like that the headphone jack on the Sony is on the top and that the volume control is a separate button on the side. The Fuze has the headphone jack on the bottom (no biggie) and the volume control on the Fuze is the scroll wheel which is also used for navigation. I found myself changing the volume when I was trying navigate which was annoying.

Here’s why I like the Fuze better. The Fuze has features that the Sony does not: an expansion slot for an SD card, voice recording capabilities, and FM recording. I did not try the FM racording, but the voice recording picked up the sound well and was clear and easy to use. You can also delete files on the player with the Fuze. This is a very nice feature.

The biggest plus the Fuze has over the Sony is SanDisk gives you free conversion software (in form of a download) to make your pictures and videos the right size and format for adding to you player. Sony wants you to pay $13 for the Pro version of their software. You must have the pro version to use their software to convert videos. You can format video with other programs, but I have yet to get the Sony to accept any videos even though I have converted them to the format that should work. Research has shown that this is a common problem with Sony media players.

All in all, the Fuze was just easier to use. I had no trouble figuring out the menus on either player, but my parents had an easier time figuring out the Fuze and liked the look of the menu better (the Sony navigation menu is just black and white, where the Fuze menu has more color and looks prettier). In fact, my mom liked it so much she’s getting one of her own.

Both the Fuze and Sony are great little players. The Fuze’s microSD slot, recording options, and ease of adding videos make it the better option though!

5 Stars Good Product at a Good Price Point
I shopped long and hard for a good MP3 player for my wife and finally found the one that gave us the most for our money. The SanDisk Sansa Fuze 4 GB MP3 Player is a user friendly MP3 player, video playback device, and picture viewer. We also looked at the IPods, Sony, and Microsoft MP3’s (which are all great devices), but the price points were too high in comparison. We can afford a $200 to $400 MP3, but really can’t justify spending that kind of money for a device that we use during our wourkouts that does the exact same things that our $80 device will do. The battery life is good, sound quality if great, the picture quality is good, and the video playback feature is also pretty fair. We especially like the expandable memory card slot. The SanDisk Fuze is an all around good product and has a full line of charging and carying accessories available for it as well.

5 Stars Great mp3 player- who needs an iPod?!
I had an ipod and found it very difficult to figure out how to load songs onto it, etc. I wanted a very simple drag and drop music player. I had a very small mp3 player from sandisk a few years ago so I thought I’d check them out again. I got this fun pink mp3 player and I love it! It is so easy to use! You don’t have to install any software on your computer to load songs to it. Its drag and drop technology just like using a flash drive. The quality is great and I will never buy an iPod again! Plus, its SOOO much cheaper!

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