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Originally Posted by mmread
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I have until the 28th to download it. My fuze+ does not arrive until Dec 2.
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Do I just download the .wma file directly to the fuze+? Do I download to my pc and then drag it to the Micro? I don't plan to listen to it until Cmas time. How do I do this right so I don't have to worry about DRM and a 21 day time limit.
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You need to load it using the OverDrive Media Console app (or Windows Media Player, but it's easier using the OverDrive app), with the Fuze+ plugged in to the PC. The OverDrive app works in conjunction with WMP (invisibly to you) and the Fuze+ to allow the DRM'd WMA to be playable on your Fuze+.
You click on the Transfer button in OverDrive, and follow the popups. On one, you'll have a drop-down that will list the Fuze+ and if you click on the tiny down arrow on its right, you'll see the micro SD as an alternative destination (assuming you have one installed when you connect the Fuze+.
I don't have the Fuze+, so I can't say exactly where you load the files. I've read that the Fuze+ is not like the Fuze, nor like the Clip or Clip+. It may not have the resume capabilities that those of us love in our Clips and regular Fuzes, I don't know. Some think it is based on the Sansa View's firmware, and not the previous gen Fuze's.
Before connecting the Fuze+ to your PC, you'll need to have the Fuze+'s USB mode in "Auto" or "MTP" (not "MSC"), if it offers such a mode. It's probably in "Auto", so you could skip this step and likely be ok.
The OverDrive app loads the audiobook files into the Music folder ("\Music\<authorname>\<booktitle> in the Clip, Clip+, and Fuze by default. All of us Clip/Clip+/Fuze owners have to correct this by clicking on "Advanced Options" button during the OverDrive "Transfer" sequence of steps and changing the destination directory from "\Music\..." to "\Audiobooks\...". If the Fuze+ doesn't have an Audiobooks folder, then try to put them in "\Podcasts\...". You're doing this so you get the resume function (picks up where you left off listening), which you don't get for files in Directory "\Music\...".
Download on the 27th and you'll be ok. It'll be active on your PC for 7 or 10 or whatever days thereafter, within which period you can transfer to MTP devices.
Again, I don't know how the Fuze+ works, whether it will always resume even if you go off and play music and then come back, or whether it has an Audiobooks folder, or Podcasts folder. It it doesn't have any of these, or doesn't seem to resume properly, you'll have to ask in the
Sandisk Sansa Fuze+ forum.