Sandisk is giving Cowon a run for their money in the firmware department. Okay so they have a ways to go, but they are consistently impressing me with their releases. A few months ago they added Ogg support to the Sansa Clip and today they released a new firmware for the Sansa Fuze that adds both Ogg and FLAC. The Fuze already sounds great, but now I get to listen to a lossless format on it? Sweet! There's a lot of new enhancements in this FW as well, check it out:

Sansa Fuze Firmware Version 1.01.15


New features:

• FLAC codec for audio is now supported
• OGG codec for audio is now supported
• New Audible AAX format is now supported
o Note: Per Audible request, type 2 and 3 are no longer supported. Users are recommended to connect to Audible Manager to update old contents to type 4.
• Include embedded album art support for MP3 playback


Enhancements:

• New Sansa startup/goodbye screen and PC connection screen
• Improved scrolling through long lists with wrap around enabled
• Backlight setting is extended up to 1 hour
• Improved FAT32 support for external uSD cards
• Improved large playlist loading time
• Improved voice recording quality responding to high sound level
• Faster volume control for video playback
• Enhancements made for Podcast playlist sorting and playback skipping

Bugs Fixed:

Music playback
• "Play Previous" option is missing after returning from Video, Photo, Podcasts and

Audiobooks playback
• Buttons have to be pressed twice while navigating in Album submenu

Rhapsody enabled devices
• Videos converted using Rhapsody show incorrect aspect ratio
• “Add to Library” using press and hold causes device to hang

Localized firmware
• Russian language: Format confirmation message is mistranslated

Miscellaneous
• Turning volume causes charging animation to jump while docked in 30-pin connection
• Recording Option menu doesn’t exist in Voice and FM Recording list view

Just load up the Sansa Firmware Updater, connect your player, and update your player to audio bliss. There's a few direct download links in the link below:

Official Sandisk Forum

Thanks Steve!

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Update: It looks like the Sansa Clip wasn't left out of the party. It's getting FLAC support too! (it already has Ogg support)