Posts Tagged ‘Sans Fuze’

I wated some good hours trying to figure out how to get the Sansa Fuze tow work on my Debian Lenny Desktop. The first time I plugged it in it opened the device in Thunar and I dragged a folder of music into the MUSIC folder. I unplugged the Fuze and found the tags were not preserved. So I booted into windows and the files where not there, So I dragged them in again. Checked my fuse and I had two entries of the same music, one with the tags and one without the tags. Went back to Linux, plugged it in and it slowed down my file-system. So I did some research and some testing and many hours later I think I have this figured out.

The problem I was having is that the Fuze is set to autodetect the MTP and MSC/UMS practicals. I am 95% sure this is what screwed me up! So this is what I did. First I went into windows and updated my firmware via these instructions (if you don’t have windows access try these instructions) Now, went into the Fuze settings and formatted the device (the music I had on there was already on my computer). Next I entered the Fuze settings and found the USB mode and changed it from auto detect to MSC. Plugged it into my Debian Lenny Desktop and dragged my music into the Music folder, and did the same in Windows and all seems to work now.

Apparently using the device interchangeably between the two systems and using both practicals was a lethal combination, but everything seems to be working now and the salution is rather simple, but the cause of the problem was not as obvious. I had to spend a few hours bouncing from forum to forum hearing smiler problems, but non of the solutions worked for me. It should also be noted there are differences between the V01 and V02 firmware sets for the Fuze.