Sansa Fuze updated to support Ogg and FLAC

SanDisk just released a firmware update for the Sansa Fuze -- pretty minor, except it adds in support for FLAC and Ogg, which should make fans of jam bands and lossless music encoding extremely happy. Nothing much else of note here apart from some UI tweaks and bug fixes, but Fuze owners will be appreciative, we're sure.

[Via DAPreview]

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2008 8:44AM]

I have the fuze and it's just an awesome little player; pisses all over nano (fat one). This is just music to my ears!

[Ephemeral Posted Oct 6th 2008 11:36AM]

Don't get me wrong, the Fuze sounds quite good out of the box but it doesn't compare in the slightest to the old range of Rio's and iRiver H120/3X0s. If I could get the sound quality of those players in a player the size of the Fuze I'd snap it up in an instant.

Anyway good to see a company still cares about product support and isn't in a hurry to chug out a new product to bring in a new revenue stream.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2008 12:57PM]

Can the Fuze be Rockboxed?

[mp3 Posted Oct 5th 2008 3:16PM]

It's always good to see open standards being adopted by corporations.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2008 10:37PM]

Any support for FLAC and OGG on the (more expensive) Sansa View? I hope so.
Love the Sansa View mainly because I can manually add music any way I want WITHOUT having to use Windows Media Player or Itunes.

I guess FLAC for a music player under 16gb doesn't really make much sense..

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2008 11:26PM]

I love my Sansa Fuze, Ilike it better than the previous generations of Sansa products. The speed of the interface is great, quality of the sound is fantastic.

Also, I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Sansa Ability to add in more memory through MicroSD. You can get a 8GB MicroSD card for about half the cost of a Sansa. 16GB cards are coming out soon too..

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 6th 2008 2:07AM]

The PMP that time forgot...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2008 10:58AM]

Awesome, awesome news.

I like the multiple colors as well.

http://www.jr.com/product/productListing.jsp?Ntt=sansa+fuze

Now only if Sansa came out with larger capacity models.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 3rd 2008 6:04PM]

I just bagged a BLACK FUZE 4GB for $79.99 @ Rad Shak (every store around is selling the 4GB FUZE for $79.99). I REALLY wanted a 8GB FUZE in BLACK (not in Silver!) Apparently, no BLACK 8GB FUZE in USA...Not even offered in the Sansa webstore (only the Silver 8GB) I read there are tons of BLACK 8GB in Germany. Oh well.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 8th 2008 2:56PM]

Just picked-up an 8GB Silver Fuze on Amazon for under $100.00. Keep an eye out for price drops, as this model compares favorably to the Nano, from what I've read.

I'm glad to see that SD is supporting the open formats. We've been waiting for that for a long time. Anybody hear of a way to do drag-n-drop video under KDE/Linux, with the Fuze?