AGPTEK A02S 16GB MP3 Player, 70 Hours Playback Lossless Sound Music Player, Supports up to 128GB, Dark Blue

The player came a day earlier than expected. It replaces the Sandisk MP3 players that I have had for over a decade, which are not made anymore. I read reviews of different players and finally chose the APGTEK-A02S. It seemed similar to the Sandisk with not being overly complicated and easy to use. I am older person and want a simple to use player. I was able to download music though windows media player from my newer Labtop and from my almost 20 year old labtop. The music transferred quickly. I can navigate through the songs with ease.. The volume control is okay. Sound is great. To turn the player on and off, there is a small switch you slide back and forth. I hope there are no future issues with that. All in all, I am very pleased with the purchase.

I use this everyday when I'm out and about. Two years later and I still love this thing. It's super light and compact to carry around, putting music on this thing is super simple, the sound output from this is great, and at full volume this thing is actually kinda loud.- NavigationUnlike most other cheap mp3 players that look just like this one, navigation with this Agptek mp3 is very easy to work with and is not overly complicated for no reason.When you're on any menu on this thing, it seems like Agptek are familiar with D-Pads on video game controllers and know that up means up, down means down, left means left, and right means right. You know, HOW IT SHOULD BE!For other things regarding navigation, this mp3 comes with an instruction manual on how to do certain other things like holding down the M button to lock/unlock the device to prevent accidental button presses, as well as holding the Vol button to adjust volume.It was very easy for me to understand, so that's another plus here.- Battery LifeRegarding battery life, it's good as long as you turn the device completely off when you're not using it. You can put the device in Sleep mode by holding the Play/Pause button for a few seconds, but at least with my unit, the battery would drain quicker, if I did that.Turning it off completely and waiting around seven seconds for it to boot up again isn't that bad, as I have gotten used to it.- FoldersSD card support is always nice to have, but I will say that it's handled a bit weird here.If you go to the 'Music' option on the mp3's Home Menu and you have songs in folders on your SD card, the player will ignore that and display the songs from ALL your folders altogether. Not grouped, organized, or anything.The best way that I got around this was going to the 'Folder' option on the player’s Home Menu and selecting SD Card from there. Separate folders were actually kept separate and grouped how I wanted them to be.- BluetoothThis might be a deal breaker for some, but this mp3 player doesn't have Bluetooth, at all. You can actually change that by buying a Bluetooth transmitter, as long as it fits the headphone jack on the device.Edit - April 7, 2024While I usually use wired earbuds when using this mp3, I bought this bluetooth transmitter from UGreen and it's pretty solid. Connecting my earbuds was easy and while it took a bit for the sound to kick in, it works fairly well:UGREEN Airplane Bluetooth 5.2... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJY56XG3?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share- Sidenote: Agptek has an mp3 player that looks like this one called the 'A02X' and that one has both a speaker and Bluetooth built-in, as well as USB-C to recharge. I don’t have that version, so I can't say if it's worth it or not personally.- Final ThoughtsOverall, this mp3 player is solid and very convenient for me, especially in a car. Seriously.An mp3 player with physical buttons makes a world of difference, if you're like me and don't like looking at any electronic screens while you're actually driving.It was the main reason why I even bought this and it helps out big time.

I bought this because I want a simple player to play podcasts when I can't sleep. So I need it to load mp3s, play them on random through a headphone jack, and not do anything else. This fits the bill. The controls take a bit of getting used to (maybe would have been easier if I had read the instructions), and it takes a surprising few seconds to boot up (means bright screen in the middle of the night, in my case), but these are small quibbles when a basic player is what I wanted.

Not to jump to conclusions, but I'm assuming a lot of the 5 Star reviews are written by people who got this item for free in return for reviewing it. Companies do this a lot lately and that arrangement is really screwing up Amazon reviews. I wish Amazon would put a huge disclaimer on every one of those reviews or segregate them into a different system because they simply are not trustworthy.This MP3 player is cheap, for a reason. Actually, many reasons. You can't use it if it's plugged into a USB port. You have to unplug it, which means you can't charge it and use it at the same time. It uses your earbud cord for the antenna, which is relatively common for these devices, but it does not tune in half the radio stations in my area, or they come in as 99% static. I know many users only care about the MP3 feature, but I would've liked to use it as a radio as well.It absolutely does not read ID3 tags. For anyone who doesn't know, ID3 tags are part of the MP3 file that contain the Artist, Album, Track Name, etc. This is 2016. MP3s and ID3 tags have been around since 1996. Twenty years later and this MP3 player can't handle it. It will list every MP3 you add to the player as the file name only. Good luck trying to figure out what "radiolab112007pod.mp3" is supposed to be about. You're going to have to rename every file you add to the player with a huge descriptive name and spend a ton of time in the menu system trying to find which file is the right one. That's completely ridiculous.The player wants to automatically search for all radio stations/frequencies and add them to a giant list of presets that you can't control. This obviously doesn't do any good when EVERY station is now a preset! You could just tune manually through every frequency and accomplish the same thing. It's slow and pointless, and half the stations are static so you would never listen to them anyway. You can't add stations manually to a preset list. The player simply has no option to do it. You can, however, delete preset stations. Yes, you can delete them but not add them. Brilliant.The build quality is VERY flimsy. You can see the LCD screen warp and distort every time you lightly tap a button! I guarantee if you dropped this thing more than six inches it would break. The instructions are all Engrish translated from Chinese. This is true with the AGPTek website and pdf files as well. If you have an issue with the clunky menu system or anything else then don't go looking for the instructions or website to clear anything up.There are other features of this device, like photo and video playback, which I never bothered to try. Watching a video on a tiny, low-resolution screen doesn't sound like a good time to me. The features are there for anyone who actually wants them, which is totally fine, but I doubt it's a big selling point.Last but not least, you can upgrade the firmware through some software on the AGPTek website. Supposedly this will add some features like ID3 tags. Great idea, right? Again the instructions are all in Engrish and when I tried to use the program it actually ERASED everything on the device: the MP3 files, presets, the entire folder structure, settings, all of it. When I rebooted the device, my PC would only recognize it as if it were a regular flash drive.Junk.