The
Sansa Fuze is a
portable media playerA portable multimedia player , is a consumer electronics device that is capable of storing and playing digital media. Digital audio players that can also display images and play videos are PMPs. Like DAPs, the data is typically stored on a hard drive, microdrive, or flash memory...
developed by
SanDiskSanDisk Corporation is an American multinational corporation which designs and markets flash memory card products. SanDisk was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory technology experts. SanDisk became a publicly traded company on NASDAQ in November 1995. In...
, and released on March 8, 2008. The Fuze is available in three different
Flash memoryFlash memory is a non-volatile computer storage that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. It is a technology that is primarily used in memory cards and USB flash drives for general storage and transfer of data between computers and other digital products...
capacities: 2 GB, 4 GB, and 8 GB. It comes in five different colors, black, silver, red, pink, and blue. Storage is expandable via a microSDHC slot with capacity up to 32 GB. All models have a 1.9 inch
TFT LCDA thin film transistor liquid crystal display is a variant of liquid crystal display which uses thin-film transistor technology to improve image quality . TFT LCD is one type of active matrix LCD, though all LCD-screens are based on TFT active matrix addressing...
display with a resolution of 220 by 176 pixels, built-in
mono-Biology:* Infectious mononucleosis, also referred to as "glandular fever", "kissing disease" or "mono"* Monodactylus sebae, an animal species-Music:*Mono , a Japanese post-rock band*Mono , a UK pop duo...
microphoneA microphone, colloquially called a mic or mike , is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal. In 1876, Emile Berliner invented the first microphone used as a telephone voice transmitter...
and
FM tunerFM broadcasting is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio.-Terminology:...
, recordings of both are saved as PCM
WAVWAV , short for Waveform audio format, also known as Audio for Windows, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is an application of the RIFF bitstream format method for storing data in “chunks”, and thus is also close to the 8SVX and the AIFF...
-Files.
The Fuze supports
MP3MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on...
,
WMAWMA may refer to:*Warsash Maritime Academy, a nautical college that is part of the Southampton Solent University.*Washington Metropolitan Area, the area in, and immediately surrounding, Washington D.C.*Weighted moving average, in technical analysis...
, PCM
WAVWAV , short for Waveform audio format, also known as Audio for Windows, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is an application of the RIFF bitstream format method for storing data in “chunks”, and thus is also close to the 8SVX and the AIFF...
and, since the 1.01.15
firmwareIn electronics and computing, firmware is a term often used to denote the fixed, usually rather small, programs and data structures that internally control various electronic devices...
revision,
VorbisVorbis is a free software / open source project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation . The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation for lossy audio compression...
, and
FLACFree Lossless Audio Codec is a file format for lossless audio data compression. During compression, FLAC does not lose quality from the audio stream, as lossy compression formats such as MP3, AAC, and Vorbis do. Josh Coalson is the primary author of FLAC.FLAC reduces bandwidth and storage...
audio
codecsA codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding and/or decoding a digital data stream or signal. The word codec is a portmanteau of compressor-decompressor' or, more accurately, coder-decoder'.Historically a modem was a contraction of modulator/demodulator and converted...
, and can display both pictures and videos, both of which must first be converted with the
Sansa Media Converter software for Windows; this program converts images to
JPEGIn computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of compression for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality...
format and videos to
DivXDivX is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. , including the DivX Codec which has become popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality.The DivX codec uses lossy MPEG-4 Part 2 compression, where quality is...
-
AVIAvi may refer to:* Avi , the pen name of children's author Edward Irving WortisAVI may refer to:* Audio Video Interleave, a multimedia container format* Judged By Your Work Party* AVI Foodsystems, Inc., a foodservice company...
(with very specific parameters).
The
Sansa Fuze is a
portable media playerA portable multimedia player , is a consumer electronics device that is capable of storing and playing digital media. Digital audio players that can also display images and play videos are PMPs. Like DAPs, the data is typically stored on a hard drive, microdrive, or flash memory...
developed by
SanDiskSanDisk Corporation is an American multinational corporation which designs and markets flash memory card products. SanDisk was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory technology experts. SanDisk became a publicly traded company on NASDAQ in November 1995. In...
, and released on March 8, 2008. The Fuze is available in three different
Flash memoryFlash memory is a non-volatile computer storage that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. It is a technology that is primarily used in memory cards and USB flash drives for general storage and transfer of data between computers and other digital products...
capacities: 2 GB, 4 GB, and 8 GB. It comes in five different colors, black, silver, red, pink, and blue. Storage is expandable via a microSDHC slot with capacity up to 32 GB. All models have a 1.9 inch
TFT LCDA thin film transistor liquid crystal display is a variant of liquid crystal display which uses thin-film transistor technology to improve image quality . TFT LCD is one type of active matrix LCD, though all LCD-screens are based on TFT active matrix addressing...
display with a resolution of 220 by 176 pixels, built-in
mono-Biology:* Infectious mononucleosis, also referred to as "glandular fever", "kissing disease" or "mono"* Monodactylus sebae, an animal species-Music:*Mono , a Japanese post-rock band*Mono , a UK pop duo...
microphoneA microphone, colloquially called a mic or mike , is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal. In 1876, Emile Berliner invented the first microphone used as a telephone voice transmitter...
and
FM tunerFM broadcasting is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio.-Terminology:...
, recordings of both are saved as PCM
WAVWAV , short for Waveform audio format, also known as Audio for Windows, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is an application of the RIFF bitstream format method for storing data in “chunks”, and thus is also close to the 8SVX and the AIFF...
-Files.
The Fuze supports
MP3MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on...
,
WMAWMA may refer to:*Warsash Maritime Academy, a nautical college that is part of the Southampton Solent University.*Washington Metropolitan Area, the area in, and immediately surrounding, Washington D.C.*Weighted moving average, in technical analysis...
, PCM
WAVWAV , short for Waveform audio format, also known as Audio for Windows, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It is an application of the RIFF bitstream format method for storing data in “chunks”, and thus is also close to the 8SVX and the AIFF...
and, since the 1.01.15
firmwareIn electronics and computing, firmware is a term often used to denote the fixed, usually rather small, programs and data structures that internally control various electronic devices...
revision,
VorbisVorbis is a free software / open source project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation . The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation for lossy audio compression...
, and
FLACFree Lossless Audio Codec is a file format for lossless audio data compression. During compression, FLAC does not lose quality from the audio stream, as lossy compression formats such as MP3, AAC, and Vorbis do. Josh Coalson is the primary author of FLAC.FLAC reduces bandwidth and storage...
audio
codecsA codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding and/or decoding a digital data stream or signal. The word codec is a portmanteau of compressor-decompressor' or, more accurately, coder-decoder'.Historically a modem was a contraction of modulator/demodulator and converted...
, and can display both pictures and videos, both of which must first be converted with the
Sansa Media Converter software for Windows; this program converts images to
JPEGIn computing, JPEG is a commonly used method of compression for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality...
format and videos to
DivXDivX is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. , including the DivX Codec which has become popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality.The DivX codec uses lossy MPEG-4 Part 2 compression, where quality is...
-
AVIAvi may refer to:* Avi , the pen name of children's author Edward Irving WortisAVI may refer to:* Audio Video Interleave, a multimedia container format* Judged By Your Work Party* AVI Foodsystems, Inc., a foodservice company...
(with very specific parameters). Alternatively, the open-source, platform-independent application
video4fuze can be used for this .
As of the 1.02.26 and 2.02.26
firmwareIn electronics and computing, firmware is a term often used to denote the fixed, usually rather small, programs and data structures that internally control various electronic devices...
revision, it now supports ReplayGain for MP3, WMA (only without
DRM-Information technology:*Digital rights management, technologies which provide access control for digital media*Data Reference Model, US federal guidelines for computer data standards*Data Resource Management...
), Vorbis and FLAC by accessing their precomputed ReplayGain metadata. Navigation by folders instead of metadata was also added.
There is currently a beta version of rockbox that runs on the fuze, as well as other specific sandisk players.
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