AGPTEK 64GB MP3 Player with Bluetooth 5.3 with 2.3" Horizontal Screen, Portable Digital Music Player with Built-in Speaker, HiFi Sound, FM Radio, Voice Recorder, Earphones Included, Silver

Superb mp3 player at a low cost. Got this in the deals and was discounted. Looks just like an iPod classic and is well made of metal. The sound quality is crystal clear and the user interface is clear and easy to use. I have 5 iPods but Id prefer this over the iPod for the price it's a great little player 👍

Executive summary: capable player but not a replacement for iPod or Sony Walkman.Pros:* Plays mp3, aac and FLAC. FLAC playback is almost gapless.* Clean and responsive interface.* Onboard amplifier capable to drive over-ear headphones such as Sennheiser HD 25-SP (60 Ohms)* Playback order. Customers are complaining about this but it can play tracks in correct order. 1. the default playback mode is Shuffle: switch to "Play in order". 2. Track number tags are not used, filename alphabetical order is used: prefix your files with 01, 02, 03, etc.* Good battery life. Auto switch off when on pause or at the end of playlist / end of album.Cons or quirks:* The 3.5mm socket is recessed. Large diameter plugs can't be fully inserted. You will need an adapter cable to plug Sennheiser, AKG, or amplifier extension leads.* Bluetooth: hit and miss. Yes with JBL headphones and mini-speaker. No with Hama Twin and Roberts S1* Write speed to internal flash memory is approx 2.6 MB/s. Around 90 secs for a FLAC album.* Album display: displays Filename and Album. Doesn't seem to read tags for Track Title, Artist and track number.* Artwork: artwork is scaled without respect for the aspect-ratio.

I bought this MP3 player some time ago.But, aside from loading music onto it and checking that it worked okay, I have not used it properly until now.Somehow, lazily, it seems easier and quicker to use our usually very competent phone music players!But, starting to use it properly today, I have immediately found an unpleasant tinny and rattly distortion on the 'rock' equaliser setting that, comparing it with the same headphones and using my phone player to identify the source, I just do not get - and on any phone equaliser setting I try to recreate this distortion on.The music is not being played too loudly, either.It seems to be only in the 'rock' setting so far as I have tried - but simply cannot be listened to. So the player will be 'retired'.I only offer this, as if I had properly compared sound quality with my other music mediums at the time, and selected a bassy track to use, I would have returned it as either poor, or maybe faulty performance.For those who love quality sound with crisp treble and controlled bass, I think this player - though a nice ipod-reminding metal-cased unit - may have some limitations.That said, it may simply be my own unit.

There's not many things that I instantly don't like but this is the exception....I hate it.I'm sure the bodywork is good, it's got a fair weight to it and the metal edge is nice, but that's where the good things endIt's got very dated firmware where searching for tracks in folders is near impossible. Yes, there's a 'folder' option on the main screen but it doesn't understand a-z organisation (it's Chinese and they always suffer from the English alphabet organisation), which means folders numbered 01, 02 through to 099 plus normally written titles come up with A's first then 01, 10, 11,12 etc, then numbers in order up to 7's then letters followed by the 8's and other numbers.It doesn't get much better when playing a folder. I have mostly audio books and it plays all the 1's first, bypassing 2, 3, 4 etc, (it ignores a 0 at the start) so long books are played well out of orders.Buttons are very poor. The touch buttons on the front either don't recognise the input or apply multiple inputs, which is very annoying.Would love to review the speaker as others reviewed it as tinny and quiet, but it doesn't work. I found an option in the settings to turn it on and off, but neither get it to work.There's a pair of earphones in the pack, but I have Monster ones, but sound comes out 'poppy' like it's an old fashioned player, but swapping to a Sony MP3 (that keeps crashing, hence buying a new player) it sounds much better - so it's the player performance rather than the headphones.I can't comment on battery life as I haven't used it for long and I used a micro SD card so never connected it a laptop to transfer files.So, if you want to poorly listen to music that's not organised correctly and plays out of order with an interface that may or may not recognise your finger, then this is for you.If not, but anything else.