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

Still going strong. It delivers on every promise. Sound quality and battery life are fantastic! I have own AGPTEK products in the past. i bought this one nearly 7 years ago now. it was my third mp3 player by this company. i love their products. i think this is one of the best mp3 players on the market. sound quality and functionality are amazing for the price. i dont think it can be beat. i run this thing continuously and its still going with no issue after 7 years!!!! i have over 3000 music files on it with more than 3 months of continuous music total playtime. i have expanded it up to 128gb. and with 600 songs on the main player and more than 2000 on the sd card i primarily run it from the card. very rarely does it say it cant read the card. no problem just turn the device off pull out the card put it back in and its fine. my favorite part about this device is the very quick and convenient skip song function it has a lock function but its not needed. just tapping the buttons while jogging or exercising or from my bed is easy and immediately wakes up the device and skips to next songs. very useful. i have used it in excursive bands and worn in pockets doing yard work etc. in my shop it very rarely would press buttons. you'd literally have to be pressed up against something and move around to skip a song or pause. really no big deal. i highly recommend this product. mine has been running for years straight. my room is always full with music. this is the absolute champ that makes that happen! i am honestly truly grateful. its life changing/saving!

Amazing for the price! I wanted a 'cheap' MP3 player for when I'm mowing or doing stuff on the tractor, so that I wouldn't risk breaking my expensive Cowon player....figured I'd take a chance on this...if worse came to worse, I could always just use it for spoekn word stuff. Well, to my surprise, this turned out to be a very good player! While it may not be audiophile-quality sound, it is quite good, especially considering the price! Much better than a dollar-store-type player; better than an iPod. Probably close to or just below a Sansa Clip. With the adjustable EQ, you can really achieve a nice sound to accommodate your tastes and the music you listen to. I can listen to this baby for 3.5-4 hours while on my diesel mower...and I have zero complaints. Has good volume too! The user interface/controls are not bad. Easy to use if you can look at what you're doing...but can be tricky to do blindly. I wish it had a physical volume button, instead of having to do it through the menu via the multi-function control. Not an issue if you can look...but can lead you down a rabbit hole if you're doing it blind....but it gets easier with time. I never actually timed it to see how long a charge lasts...but I must say that I am impressed at how infrequently it needs to be charged! -And bear in mind, that my other player has a 100 hour run time on a charge. This baby certainly beats most typical players which tend to only have an 8-12 hour run time in the real world; It easily beats my old Sansa Clip by a mile. [My experience is based on using wired headphones- Performance with Bluetooth would be substantially less] It does have a few minor quirks and annoyances...but they are not deal-breakers, and many can be worked around. I am impressed that this puppy can handle thousands of files, and even does so well in shuffle mode! Overall, for an "everyday" player, with good sound and good battery life...you will not find anything better than this for over double the price. I'm impressed! I really like it. Oh, and I've had mine for about 2 years now....and have used it a lot, mostly in my shirt pocket- often on 90-something degree days, with dust and sweat and getting jostled around...and it still looks and performs just like it did the day I got it. These even have a nice feel to them- not cheap-feeling plactic, but rather that velvety slightly rubberized 'quality' plastic feel. Amazing! I'm going to buy another one just to keep for when this one dies!

It's a simple device but does what it's supposed to-- local file playback. Battery lasts long on a device with such a low power draw, the playback options are useful, and it's small enough to always have in a bag or side pocket. Good tool to have when you're offline or outside of coverage.

My model: A02, Dark Blue. Who should immediately look elsewhere: Audiophiles; Anyone with a messy music collection; Anyone who has a music collection consisting of a large variety of file types; Anyone with a large music collection; Anyone who needs this for videos; Anyone who has Bluetooth headphones or wants Bluetooth connectivity of any sort Who should keep reading to make sure: Those with low budgets; Anyone with a neatly organized, 8 GB or less music collection they will mostly listen to by album, artist, or just every track shuffled. This thing is stripped down to nothing essentially. It's practically a flash drive with a headphone jack at the end of the day. However, for that price, I didn't expect much else, and I recognized that I was taking a chance on the device. In my opinion, there are some nonredeemable drawbacks to the device that will make me probably buy a different device. (I won't return it simply because the cost of returning it would be a third of the cost of the device, so I might as well keep it as a backup for whatever I decide to go for next.) However, depending upon what you want it for, it might be just fine. Things you should know right out of the gate: - No Bluetooth! They make that pretty clear on the product page but people still ask. It's part of why it's so cheap. - No it does not interface directly with iTunes. (It does interface with MediaMonkey, a much better program, but not as cleanly as it should.) However, you can select all tracks of a playlist or whatever in iTunes, copy them, and paste them in the player folders like a flash drive, so you won't need to abandon iTunes. - Formats I've found that it DOESN'T play: ALAC (aka Apple Lossless, which will show up with an m4a extension, you just have to pay attention to the bitrate), AIFF, and lossless WAV files. If you have the wrong format, there are a bunch of file converter programs to help you convert to the right format though. This is a pretty small problem. FLAC is a perfectly reasonable lossless file format, but it's the only one this player really tolerates acceptably. - The screen is tiny and pretty miserable resolution. It supposedly can play videos, but I can't imagine why on earth you would want to watch them on it. It's first and foremost a music player. Now the nitty gritty. Pros 1. Battery life is great as advertised, it will last more than one day of pretty steady listening. (But make sure when you're not using it to press the VOL button on the Now Playing screen, then hold the play button to put it in standby, or else it will continuously sap power at the same rate as it would if it was playing music.) 2. Audio output quality is pretty good, I would say at least as good as my iPod Classic Gen 5 that I was meaning to replace with this. There is an important caveat to this, though, in the con section. 3. Very portable. 4. No walled garden: This player can hook up to any computer and have its entire file directory recognized. This is normal to many of you reading, but I only mention this because I've been an Apple user for too long. Cons 1. Its software system is SO stripped that it won't cooperate with playlists created on other music management software programs, even though they're in the correct format (supposedly M3U per the AGPTEK forum), or, at least, I have yet to figure out, after trying many things, exactly what the player software wants me to do with the playlist file so that it can recognize that "These are the songs I need to play, and they're all in this/these location(s)." I'm reasonably confident I'm just doing something wrong, but right now I have two mutually exclusive options: I can have all the files in neatly hierarchical artist/album/genre/file name formats on the player by all my scrupulously assigned tags with using MediaMonkey to sync, or I can have everything organized into files as the playlist, and just play out of that file directly, but lose all of that convenient file organization for when I don't want to specifically play the playlist. This lack of freedom enrages me even though I listen to my carefully crafted playlists 99% of the time, and just listening to the contents of the files I create in the order they were added (which will also be the order they were copied and pasted in, so it will retain the order of the playlist from which you're copying) is usually fine. 2. Another software complaint: The player will not display the files by their tags; it will only display them by their file names. Coupled with the lack of hierarchical storage by tag that I can't do as described above, the only way I could definitely know the artist/album/track number with any sort of convenience was by downloading a new music management software program that could rename files by a designated naming scheme (MediaMonkey, fantastic program btw--I was formerly all iTunes because of Apple's walled garden legacy) so that every file name would display the track title, disc number, track number, album title, and artist in that order (because that's in the order of questions I ask when I pull out my player to check it and answer them). Problem successfully worked around? No because there's a limit to how long of a track name it will display in both the file directory and on the now playing screen. So I haven't figured out a way around this yet and it's annoying as all heck. 3. Yet another software complaint: The now playing screen. Why that design, AGPTEK? The screen is miniscule and low resolution (probably a big factor of how it conserves energy so well, no complaint with that). No one needs to see the album art on that thing, nor could we actually make things out if we wanted to, so why display it SO prominently, but not display all the tags for the file like track title, album, artist, disc number, track number, etc. upon immediate look? In fact, I don't know of a way to look at tag info other than repeatedly stop and start the player (so that it doesn't go into its screensaver) and wait for it to scroll through the tags on the now playing screen. Exceedingly frustrating. It's a good thing I know my music collection fairly well and how to answer my most likely questions the fastest. 4. A fourth more minor software complaint: If I have to find something in the library, I need some spare time because even though this things holds 128 GB at a time (supposedly--I'm close to 4000 tracks but I haven't tested the "It won't tolerate any more than 4000 tracks" reports of other reviewers yet), it will take you quite a while to scroll through, say, 1600 tracks. It does not speed up it's scrolling speed much if you hold down the up or down buttons longer, so you just have to wait and watch. 5. The player puts out a pretty nice audio output... but you can hear its various and assorted gizmos whirring about amidst all the goodness of your music, especially between tracks. I've heard things like this before with other players, especially ones with on-board hard drives, but not so prominently. It's not so loud that I can hear it through my car's auxiliary jack, but it's definitely loud enough to hear through my headphones even during quiet parts of audio playback, and it's certainly loud enough that I feel I have to complain about it. Believe it or not, this is one of the main reasons why I feel this device doesn't cut it for me. All the software things can be worked around with a little creativity. Hardware sounds are for the device's life; there's no workaround for that except replacement.

I bought this player because they claimed it had 70 hours of battery life. Right out of the box after a full charge, it had 50 hours max. Within two months it's down to 20 hours of playtime between charges. And that's with turning the device off between uses. I use it every night while sleeping to listen to white noise so it's pretty easy for me to track the hours of playtime I'm getting. It is small and very lightweight which is nice, but that's the only good thing I have to say about it. It has the absolute worst response time when pressing a button (six seconds for the play button to respond for example). You will find the song you want, hit play...then wait and wait and hope it registered. If you think you might have hit another button you will have to wait that six seconds to find out if it canceled out the play button or not. Then hit play again and wait another six seconds. I've never experienced a delay like this in anything I've ever owned. I'm pretty sure a toaster from 1970 is more technologically advanced than this thing. There is no volume control on the outside of the device. This wouldn't be such a huge issue if it actually responded to anything you asked it to do when you hit a button to engage the menu. You have to be on the right screen to get the volume to adjust. More often than not it doesn't respond at all or causes the song to pause...which starts the six second wait all over again. Because I listen to this while I sleep this is especially annoying for me. If I need to turn it up to drown out outside noise, I have to be fully awake to get the thing to work because you have to work your way through several screens to get the volume window. Once you do get to the volume window, half the time trying to adjust the volume resets it to a different window and you have to start all over to get it back to the right menu. You can't just reach over and hit the volume button like pretty much every other player I've ever seen. Now I realize I may just have a lemon (well besides the non existant volume button), so I should just talk to customer service which claims to back their product. Yeah...they don't respond. At least not to me. I got the standard "how do you like our product, please give us a review" email that also stated to reply to that email if I had any questions or problems. I told them the problems I was having and a month later...still no response. You want a review? FINE! Here's your one star. I replaced this useless piece of plastic with a sony music player which cost twice as much but is worth EVERY PENNY to not have to deal with this device anymore. The one good thing about having wasted $26 on this was that I will now forever appreciate when any music player just starts playing music immediately when you push play or the novelty of having a volume button. As for the sound quality, that was pretty terrible too when comparing this to the Sony I replaced it with.

Excellent product. I purchased more than one.

It took a while to figure out the controls, as the instruction manual is not the best, but I must say after owning this device for a while, may be the best bargain on the planet. It has great battery life, just about every control you could ask for, and is very inexpensive compared to the competition. On top of that, it seems to be well built despite my initial impressions. I do not recommend trying this, but It fell out of my pocket about a week ago into the deep end of a pool. After fishing it out by sliding it to the shallow end with a pole, I pulled it out figuring it was done for. I went as far as ordering the new A20 model that same day ( this is the A02), as I listen to a lot of podcasts, Here is where I will give a little advice. If you drop it in water, fish it out and turn it off as quickly as possible. put it on its side and let it dry in the sun (sd card slot up)for 24 hours, Then turn it over on the other side and let it dry for 24 hours on the other side. After the 48 hours drying time, turn it on. If the screen flashes on and off, do not give up. recharge the battery and see if the behavior gets better. Mine did, but it took about four tries before the behavior was back to normal. Anecdotal evidence, but that is what worked for me. So the new model I ordered arrived this morning, and I was prompted to write this review. I will place the new A20 model in a drawer as backup, and see how long the old one lasts. After about 2 minutes underwater, it surely will not last as long as it would have otherwise, but I will have a backup when it stops working, and as far as I am concerned this little guy has gone above and beyond the call of duty..... So five very big stars to the little AGPtEK A20. This is truly a great bargain.

The unit arrived quickly, well-packed, and included the mini-USB cord and a manual. I bought the product exclusively for loading and listening to music on quality headphones while working out after my [very] aged ipod nano finally expired. Ease of loading and changing MP3s, sound quality, capacity, and value were the features I was most interested in, and I did a lot of research before deciding on this AGPTEK unit. After considering about a dozen alternatives and reading scores of reviews, I settled on this product. I don't think I could have done better for the price. It's simple to load (drag and drop, copy and paste, etc.) and charges as advertised. I can't vouch for the battery life since I haven't had it long enough to run it dry. There are a lot more features than I would have thought (pics, video, etc.), none of which I've tried or am interested in, but they don't get in the way of music playback operations which I find to be intuitive. The manual will get you started, but full knowledge and use of the controls will require experimentation. I learned the music handling in a matter of minutes just by trial and error and it was not frustrating. I can't address durability yet since I've only had it for a week, but the plastic case seems solid enough and there's nothing about the unit physically or electronically that's given any hint of vulnerability. The sound quality is comparable to my old ipod nano and as good as I've heard in a device in this price range. The 8GB capacity will hold about 800-1,000 of my MP3 songs, most of which are 256bps or more, so the files are relatively large. You'll fit more songs with smaller files. The optional memory card will eliminate any music storage issues and is probably a must if you're going to use the unit for video playback. The FM radio pulls in stations better than I expected and uses the headphones as the antenna. I have yet to try to play back lossless music files, so I can't address the versatility claims or quality of that feature. Anyone looking for a low-priced unit that will "do the job" of MP3 handling and playback is going to be pleased with this product.