There are, for example, only one raised button for Power / Standby and Lock. Drivers who quickly throws the player into his pocket and want to hear when you are driving home in the evening, can have bad luck when something in the bag presses against the player, turn on this evening is out of battery. Did the repeatedly experienced.
Here there is more than one solution.
The Fuze + also has no eye to to be worn around the neck -> in your pocket it can scratch easily, and the cable for headphones must be longer than the "around the neck operation".
And up for navigation is an adventure and requires utmost attention. Although I own the device for several months, it can be seen always surprising for me, which function is called next when trying to browse the folder structure. Unfortunately, this also works very well. The title display will be truncated. If you use sort pieces by numbers, then the numbers must be at the beginning of the name and not at the end, otherwise they might be cut off and the files are indistinguishable.
Although I am satisfied with the sound and the functions, in principle, I think the operating concept for totally missed and forgive about only one point.
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After the part is rather long unused located in the closet, I pulled myself and trying to save what can be saved: I have draufgespielt an alternative firmware of Rockbox.org.
Lo and behold. Now it works. The sound is good and amazing for the size. Now he can suddenly more formats. The fiddly navigation with the touch pad has now been replaced by a Tastensimmulation, ie the 4 surfaces behave like buttons - as is the navigation much easier and clearer.
Rockbox offers many options and settings. I would give it 4 points today, but stay with the old scoring because the extensions will invalidate the warranty strength and I still have not figured out how Audible works - but that should also go. Activate in Audible I could the device.