Comments on: Another SanDisk Fuze, and Mostly Success! http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2009/11/25/another-sandisk-fuze-and-mostly-success/ Ramblings of an Old Man on Old-Time and Contemporary Radio, Television, the Arts, and the News; includes OTR Podcast Sat, 19 May 2012 21:38:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Charlie Summers http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2009/11/25/another-sandisk-fuze-and-mostly-success/#comment-8017 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:25:49 +0000 http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2009/11/25/another-sandisk-fuze-and-mostly-success/#comment-8017 A question was posed on the Digest looking for an MP3 player with true auto-resume. Any player that can handle Rockbox can do this...when you shut down the player in the middle of a song, on restart the "Now playing" menu item changes to "Resume Playback" (check out the graphic I put together for this article to see it), starting the previously-playing program at the point of stopping. But with bookmarks, Rockbox goes somewhat farther than that, albeit on the playlist level and not the file level...Rockbox can be set up to allow for multiple bookmarks per file (again, listed within the playlist, so multiple files' bookmarks are all gathered together), and can even be set up to auto-create a bookmark any time you stop playing a file. For OTR, this is exactly what the doctor ordered, although it takes a while to slog through the manual for your player model to figure out how all those bookmark settings need to be set up to do this automatically... A question was posed on the Digest looking for an MP3 player with true auto-resume. Any player that can handle Rockbox can do this…when you shut down the player in the middle of a song, on restart the “Now playing” menu item changes to “Resume Playback” (check out the graphic I put together for this article to see it), starting the previously-playing program at the point of stopping.

But with bookmarks, Rockbox goes somewhat farther than that, albeit on the playlist level and not the file level…Rockbox can be set up to allow for multiple bookmarks per file (again, listed within the playlist, so multiple files’ bookmarks are all gathered together), and can even be set up to auto-create a bookmark any time you stop playing a file. For OTR, this is exactly what the doctor ordered, although it takes a while to slog through the manual for your player model to figure out how all those bookmark settings need to be set up to do this automatically…

]]> by: Charlie Summers http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2009/11/25/another-sandisk-fuze-and-mostly-success/#comment-8016 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:06:16 +0000 http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2009/11/25/another-sandisk-fuze-and-mostly-success/#comment-8016 In looking up something else, I discovered thanks to the Rockbox forums that if one holds the Select button down (the one in the middle of the scrollwheel) while plugging in the power cable, the unit does <em>not</em> auto-boot the Sansa firmware and continues in Rockbox. Pretty nifty, that, and removes the last impediment to using the unit in the car...ok, other than my having to buy a bunch of microSDHC cards and copy the recorded music to them... If I find out any other interesting tidbits of information on the Fuze, I'll post them here hoping that others might benefit in future web searches. In looking up something else, I discovered thanks to the Rockbox forums that if one holds the Select button down (the one in the middle of the scrollwheel) while plugging in the power cable, the unit does not auto-boot the Sansa firmware and continues in Rockbox. Pretty nifty, that, and removes the last impediment to using the unit in the car…ok, other than my having to buy a bunch of microSDHC cards and copy the recorded music to them…

If I find out any other interesting tidbits of information on the Fuze, I’ll post them here hoping that others might benefit in future web searches.

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