Absolutely splendid little device, especially for the price. I've been looking around for a good MP3 player that doesn't break the bank for years. After owning multiple devices, I can say with full confidence that, in my opinion, this is absolutely the best bang for your buck. I got mine in October of 2024, and have had it for 7 months now with pretty rough daily use. It still works like new, aka spectacular. Pros: - hand feel is incredible, you would be hard pressed to find something this good for the price. Mostly metal with a plastic clip and USB covering, its the perfect size for holding and super easy to navigate, even if you aren't looking at it. - Comes with A LOT of bonus goodies. Extra USB cap, USB to USB-C converter, wrist strap, and USB-A to USB-B extension cord just off the top of my head. If you already own a good pair of earbuds, you wont need to buy anything else for this. - Battery life is perfect. I use this guy non stop for about 10 hours every day, and a full charge will consistently last me 3 days without recharging. - Sound quality is super solid. If you're a casual/moderate music enjoyer this will be more than enough for you as long as you invest in a good pair of ear buds and make sure your MP3s are good. - Hello Persona 3 cosplayers. Get this if you want an MP3 player that gives the Door-kun vibes, can attach to a lanyard, and actually sounds good. I can't recommend anything else if you want something functional. - Incredibly easy to transfer files. Plug it in to a computer, it opens a file explorer tab, drag and drop files in there, unplug. Couldn't get more simple. - Screen is genuinely great. It has customizable brightness, and is super easy to see, even outside. I have never had any trouble reading or seeing something on this. - UI and buttons are very simple. Takes a little adjusting to, but what doesn't. Pretty much all of it is intuitive. - Storage is more than 99% of people will ever need. - Charging is so easy and pretty quick. You get an extension cord, but you could honestly just plug the MP3 player directly into a brick. Less than 2 hours of sitting and charging is more than enough to last me the day. Cons (not really, most of this is just "ehhh, its good enough"): - Blue tooth works, nothing wrong with it if its charging and connected to a car speaker. Don't use wireless earbuds on the daily though, it will burn through the battery + not have as good sound quality as wired. - As far as my understanding goes, you can only have 3 playlists. This can be slightly remedied by creating folders in the file explorer and the listening to them in the folder tab on the MP3 player, but each song can only go in one folder. Not draw back for me at all, but I can imagine some people where its an issue. - Don't buy this for the recording function. It works, but it's incredibly mediocre. - Isn't the most responsive, especially on a low charge. Wont be experiencing 60 FPS 4K Doom game play on this guy, but it's good enough to where the minimal lag never bothered me. Just be patient with the little guy, it's trying its best. Overall, incredibly good for the price. If you're sick of streaming or constant ads, need to be able to play stuff offline, have a phone that's too clunky to carry around well working out, or otherwise want to try out using an MP3 player; this is my go to recommendation. It has its draw backs, but nothing can beat the quality to price ratio. After my wonderful experience a few of my family members purchased one too and it works perfectly for them as well. I can't tell you a better MP3 player for under $50, it really is just the best bang for your buck. - Fin Read more
So I needed something to help me in day to day. I wanted to reduce my data consumption so cutting out streaming was an idea. I also wanted a device that cannot play video or apps to listen to music to reduce my screen time. Something for chores, projects, maybe calm drives where there is no rush was needed. So I searched for possibilities and came across this. This product cuts out a lot of the middleman in a lot of aspects. It can play multiple file types, it can connect to a wide array of bluetooth devices, and you do not need an external program to load files onto it. It is treated like a flash drive when plugged in and you can just copy files onto it. Something not clearly stated is that you don't have to use your PC to charge it. It comes with a USB adapter to plug it into your typical phone charger to give it a charge, just be sure to look at the manual packet included with it to make sure your charger base is compatible (printed on the side of the block, and mentioned for this device in the manual) It may not be waterproof, so keep concern of that. The only cons I would say are more so on programming side as little things that could be better. This version I am using is the bluetooth version. It does not automatically look for things to connect to when turned on. You have to enter the bluetooth menu in order for it to search for devices. You do not need to play with the options for devices it has already connected to in past but you do have to open that menu every time to get it to connect. There is a soft lock that can happen but is easy to avoid. Do not let it enter the low power warning when listening to music while using bluetooth. It will lock up and you have to wait several hours to undo the lock. Simply wait a good amount of hours and hold down the power button to shut it off. This soft lock also happens if you open a menu right as a device connects. Wait for your bluetooth device to connect before opening menus and you are good to go. The battery settings are set to auto awaken a certain amount of time after being told to turn off. I recommend setting this to shut down till turned back on (which is not the default). If you plug it in to charge it does trigger power consumption even though you haven't turned it back on. So you will need to power it off again to not waste power after a charge. Overall you may think mp3 players are a thing of the past but when it comes to saving money (cutting out audio streaming subscriptions), being more productive (reducing screen time), and having control over your library of music, it is good to have. You do have to go the classical route of obtaining sound files and paying for music, which seems a hurdle in modern days, but that is worth it to help you when you really should put down that phone. Read more
I bought this cute lil' mp3 in October and have loved using it everyday since. Unfortunately due to an unforseen fault the power bottom started to fail. I was dreading contacting the customer service because it can be a real pain in the patookus. This company got my email about the fault botton and SAME DAY told me that "it can't be fixed we will send you a new one what color you want?" I dang near cried, because of how easy it was to fix my issue and to the person or persons who helped me. 1000 blessing be upon your home! Read more
This mp3 llayer didn't work at all! I charged it for over 24 hours, started the setup steps and it froze up. It wouldn't reset or turn off, completely unresponsive. I requested a return label to be mailed because I don't have a printer to print the return label. The label didn't arrive before the required return date and I contacted customer service which is a chat bot, not human. Bot said throw away defective mp3 player and a full refund would be issued. I went back to check status of refund, and it showed return window expired and I haven't received a refund. I've been charged for a device that never worked and denied adequate time frame to receive the return label and take the item to a shipping location. Amazon needs to hire humans to work customer service! AI chat bots cannot understand basic requests. Read more
