SanDisk Sansa Fuze+ 8GB MP3 Player with FM Radio - Purple

I've had 3 Sansa devices and have been happy with them. The device sounds great like all Sansa. The screen is a great size for actually seeing the user interface. The capacitive touch is the downfall of this device. It is slow to respond. There is little visual feedback and no touch feedback of where to press to get the device to do what you want. Want to rewind a few seconds? You are just as likely to got to the previous track. On of the advantages that a player can have over a smartphone is BUTTONS YOU CAN FEEL WITHOUT LOOKING. Unfortunately the capacitive buttons makes this product unusable.

I purchased this in order to use microsd cards loaded with protected music as my old player died and I could not use them or copy the music to another player. The device will not hold a charge and the user interface is terrible. I do not recommend buying this product on Amazon.

I still use this, even today on occasion, and although it suffers from the odd hiccup every now and again, I still love it. However, I don't use the earphones it came with originally, as I don't like that type much. It's a nice device, and the 16GB space is an improvement over the Clip+ series, in addition to the 32GB it can store. It's easy to use, and although I wouldn't use it for watching videos, it is good for listening to music, and the screen is nice enough that it can be used to display album art. It feels quite solidly built as well, and it comes with a pouch thing to put it in, so you can protect it, though I do recommend that you also get some screen protectors to protect it from being scratched!Additionally, if it's not possible already, you should be able to replace the default firmware on it with Rockbox, I think it's called, which will allow it to support more file formats, and possibly higher capacity Micro SDHC cards (though it may be able to support that on stock firmware). All in all, it's a nice device. The only complaint I can think of is that I don't quite like the touch controls, as it lacks tactile feedback , and occasionally it goes into something I don't want it to. Another issue is that there's no way of protecting the touch controls, so it is important to make sure that they're covered when the device isn't in use, as otherwise it could get scratched or scuffed.Ultimately though, I don't regret purchasing it, although I'm getting to the stage now where I want to either get a new MP3 player (not Apple!), or test it out to see if it can hold a larger capacity Micro SD card, so I can give it a much-needed refresh!

This is a really good player for the price. We looked at so many before choosing this one. We went for this because of the really intuitive touch-pad interface, colourful screen, overall size & build quality and flexibility with expansion cards. The sound quality is very good and it's easy to drag & drop files into the player.Be careful to name the music files in number order - e.g. 01 Great track, 02 My song, 03, Sing-a-long, etc.. This way the songs will display in the track listing order you want. If you don't do this it'll display them in alphabetical order. When importing pictures to the unit, they must be 240 x 240 pixels of the unit won't display them!You need to get better earphones than the ones supplied. I went for a colour matching set of  SoundMAGIC E10S In Ear Isolating Earphones with Mic - Black & Purple  and it's the perfect combination!It has a brilliant hi-fidelity voice recorder with built-in microphone next to the headphone jack. We've used this lots.Very highly recommended at this price point. SoundMAGIC E10S In Ear Isolating Earphones with Mic - Black & Purple

I've used a Sansa View for several years now and have been very happy with it but it's eventually given up the ghost. Bought the Fuze+ as a replacement and am disappointed to find it pretty well unuseable.I use a 32GB card which it accepted with no bother, loaded reasonably quickly (about 1 minute for 4000 songs) but then I found the player is useless for a large collection of songs as it will ONLY show in 'artist' order - no genre, album, recently added or rating categories. I see from a YouTube video that these categories are available but I simply couldn't get mine to show anything other than 'Artist' and believe me I tried! As many of my albums are by various artists, each artist was listed separately - a total 1659 artists to scroll through to find the song you want and no way to listen to a whole album if it's by more than one artist.I thought perhaps it was because I'd simply swapped the card from the old player, but when I tried syncing a few tracks to the internal memory from Windows Media Player and running it without the card it was exactly the same result. An extraordinary failing.The touchpad is also very poor - trying to scroll at any speed often resulted in the artist being selected rather than scrolling and actually landing on the artists I wanted was very difficult - was forever getting the one above or below.The sound quality was excellent by the way, and the system settings provided an easy override for the nanny-state limited maximum volume - but unfortunately that's just not enough to make me want to keep it.Returned to Amazon.Any suggestions for a good, non-iTunes using mp3 player (not fussed about video, pics, radio etc) with a card slot would be most welcome!

One of the best mp3 players there is (dont think they make it any more).Plays gapless songs perfectly.Holds a massive amount of songs, so far more the 5000 songs, my 32g card is nearly full but it looks like it will show all songs when full. (Unlike most other players I have which only show a fixed amount regardless how many are on them).It merges both card and internal memory together. Putting all the songs in one list.However I have tried a few different 32g cards and found that Kingston are the only ones that seem to work good (even sandisk caused problems).Hopully Sandisk will produce another with the same functions. I think they only produce two now similar to the Clip Sport which is no way as good as the Fuze+

What a shame! We've had 2 original Sansa Fuzes for at least 7 years and they (in my opinion) are the best ever MP3 players for quality, features and useability. The battery in one of them died and I thought the Fuze+ would be just as good, but it would not recognise any of the 3 MicroSD cards I tried (2 x 4GB & 32GB), despite a couple of factory resets and reformatting the cards. I didn't bother asking for a replacement as problems are too common according to the reviews. The units appear to be new, but I have to ask myself - why so many problems from such a good manufacturer? Maybe that's why the product became obsolete. Refund applied for.A quick addition - with the proportion of units which are faulty wouldn't it make sense for the seller to test them before sending them out? They don't have any retail packaging, just a small, unsealed plastic bag......