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After I got the Fuze+ un-Rockboxed, I decided to try it to listen to an audiobook. Well, I'm remembering now why I put the Fuze+ aside soon after buying it. I'd vaguely recalled that there was something odd about how it handled audiobooks, and there certainly is.
If you put an mp3 audiobook (multiple chapters) into the Audiobooks folder--which certainly seems like a reasonable thing to do--the poor deluded Fuze+ puts the files in alphabetical order by title (not filename or track number). So we have Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapters 11-19, Chapter 2, Chapter 20, End Credits, Title Credits. And it stops after each track. I didn't try it, but apparently if you load several books, it will jumble up all the files into strict alphabetical order.
The mp3 audiobooks need to go into the Podcasts folder. Then the Fuze+ reads them in the proper order (assuming you've tagged them properly) and continues smoothly from chapter to chapter. And keeps each book separate.
The controls are just bad. The touchpad is either not responsive enough, or else overly sensitive. I can't figure out how to rewind or fast forward; I do what the manual says, but it doesn't seem to work.
So all this is why I abandoned it for audiobooks and loaded video onto it soon after I first got it--it plays video very nicely on its little screen. It's back to the Clip Zip for audiobooks.
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