128GB MP3 Player with Bluetooth - MECHEN D53 Portable MP3 Touch Screen Music Player with HiFi Speaker 2

This dap was perfect. Bluetooth works well, sounds good, it has amazing storage and the build quality is very good. I only have 2 complaints. 1. The ui is not greatest and just feels cheap. But it is still very usable. 2. In the dedicated music app where you can search for albums, artists, and songs, it has a song limit of 4000. But all the music is still on here and you just have to use the folder app to find those songs. Overall a great product and works perfectly for me. Read more

When you see the five star review, please understand I'm grading on a curve here. This was an MP3 player under thirty dollars that was a great looking color of orange in the product picture, and I wanted a cheap MP3 player dedicated to sleep. My hope was it would sound decent enough on that scale. Well, the DAC inside the thing is *way* better than I could have hoped. On a decent pair of IEMs (and I used a pair of FIIO FD11 Earphones to test -- they cost about the same as the player itself) this things sounds *great,* and there isn't buffering issues or jitter. The connection is really solid and it has great battery life. The unit itself is *really* solid feeling with a much better build quality than I'd expected. Seriously -- it was far more than I'd hoped. Bluetooth is *fantastic* on this thing -- one reason I decided to take the plunge was its Bluetooth 5.3 support. Connections were reliable and solid. As far as driving headphones goes... this is an MP3 player under thirty bucks. Trying to drive a pair of BT770 80 ohms... at top volume it's almost listenable, and that's as much as I'd expect. It's a DAP, not a DAC, with no USB DAC functionality. And its touchscreen is slow and sluggish and its UI is utter crap. Let's be clear about that. But for this money? This thing sounds great and is well made, and that's huge. Read more

I wish I could give 4.5 stars. Overall it's a good music player easy to carry around and if you're looking like me to not clog your phones storage with music its a great alternative. This is not an iPod you're not getting that streamline operating system on the player and the screen lags sometimes, but for under $40 and at a time when the portable music player has mostly gone the way of the dodo it's good. Read more

TLDR summary - the navigation in the native music player is awful and it has no internet, so no option to download a better player. I use my phone for talking, not for holding/playing music and draining the battery. So I use an MP3 player, but they don't last forever and periodically need replaced. I have simple requirements for an MP3 player, I'm picky but not snobby. I want a player that's easy to use and easy to navigate my music (I care about little else). I have 25 years of music from a variety of sources, so ID3 tags and filename structures (which this player uses) are a mess. So I keep music in folders by artist/album, as that is easily maintained on a PC. And that's what I play from - folder layout. This Mechen D53's screen layout is tiny and scrolling is too sensitive: if you are scrolling thru artists, folders, etc, it sometimes interprets a finger-flick as a selection, so it is very easy to flick twice to scroll to the far end of the alphabet and instead it selects some artist and song and starts playing it. Ugh. But then the 'back' button doesn't take you back to the last spot, it goes back to the beginning at 'A'. AARGH! There's no shortcut letter-selection on the RH side of the screen either. Read more

I enjoy it and use it daily for sure, but I do have some complaints about its functionality. Id prefer the power button to be on the top/bottom rather than the side. Simply holding it will occasionally just turn it off because my hand presses the button. It also has a timeframe for how long it stays on, 2 hours being the maximum before it automatically turns off. That just seems odd to me. It's not hard to just turn back on, but it gets really annoying turning it on all the time. It's easy enough to use once you get used to how the screen works, though I haven't tried out the FM radio it supposedly has built in. I'll say, I'm not a fan of how it'll only play a certain amount of songs before looping again. I like to have all my music on shuffle for variety and that kind of ruins the vibe when I have to re-shuffle it after a few skips. The Bluetooth works just fine and connects relatively fast. The audio isn't the best but it's perfectly fine for the average person. It really just sounds like an old mp3 player. Definitely not for audiophiles. The battery life is crazy long. I've gone weeks without charging it while using it for almost the entire day. It charges pretty quick too, so it's super convenient. The storage isn't bad either, I have almost 4k songs in this thing and it's still got plenty of room for more. It only allows a certain number of playlists to be made in the songs app, but you can make as many as you like if you just make a custom folder to put specific songs in. The search option sucks. It's terrible. It auto sorts every song from A to Z which is fine, but when you're looking for a specific song you HAVE to search the artists name and not the actual name of the song. Also it takes like 5 minutes to even find anything and you can't leave the menu during that time. I often download one song from an album or artist and have it in a giant miscellaneous folder, so this kinda thing takes me HOURS. All in all, it's good but it's not amazing. There's better options if youre really looking for a good mp3 player. I like that it's reliable and doesn't need wifi or Bluetooth to work, and I enjoy that the touch screen is fully optional unless you're typing. The spinner wheel is also fun to just mess around with when youre bored. Read more