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

I liked this so much I bought 4 of them (two got lost and one just went through the washer). The software for the music playing is very good and easy to navigate. I had 3 other inexpensive MP3s, all different brands including the AGPTEK 16G, that had terrible software (when turned on you get a light green screen that says WELCOME). This one is simple to use and to load/delete songs. You can easily delete a song while it is playing by pressing the M (up) button and selecting delete from the menu. Also the display is easy to read. How much music you can get on this device depends on a few factors. All of my songs are from CDs ripped onto the computer using default settings, and it holds 145-150 hours of songs or about 18 hours per gigabyte. It can take a micro SD card for added capacity but I don't use one so I cannot comment on how good that works. What I like best about this is the random/shuffle. You can shuffle play an artist, album, genre, or all songs. What's best is that the random is truly random. I've detected no patterns or any song that gets played repeatedly (the "green WELCOME" MPs I had played the same exact songs in the same exact order). A couple of cons is that it could be louder, and the equalizer doesn't do all that much. Also, it won't stand up to a round in the washing machine. When all is said and done this is a great low cost MP3, far better that the several I've had in the past. Now if they could only put in a homing device in it.

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!

I got this around 2015 and the model currently listed does not match what I have. I assume they upgraded the unit so I can't comment on the newer version. However I will review the 2015 model: This was exactly what I wanted for an MP3 player. I didn't want it to play videos, I didn't want it connected to social media, I didn't want it to have GPS, I didn't want it to have all this extra nonsense I'd be paying $100+ extra, for features I didn't want or already had built in my phone. I wanted an MP3 player that could play a LOT of music, have a good battery life, and not cost an arm and a leg. - The menu is a little non-intuitive but after a few minutes of using it, there's no problems. Quality is great (I can blast it after connecting it to my car AUX ports and there's no sound degredation). - Battery and lifetime is fantastic. I use it in my car and for the gym and I can probably go a week or two without needing to charge it. - Holds 8GB internally which basically means plenty of CDs worth of music. If you want to expand more space (ie- for a podcast or audio book library) you can put a micro SD card in. I have a 64GB card in and it's more than I'll ever need. I highly recommend this as the MP3 player to keep in your car, to use for the gym, or even to stockpile audiobooks when you're on vacation. Certainly saves the space and battery life on your phone.

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!

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.

2-week owners update: (from 4 to 3 stars) This mp3 player has worked well and is still one that I would recommend to a friend, but there is a major design flaw. Somehow, when I was installing a micro-sd card, it got jammed above the slot. The design process made it so that there was a way to get the card above the slot if you were not paying attention. I was able to take it apart and get the card out and put it back together again. It works, but the ON/OFF button is very hard to move now and there is damage to the player where I had to pry it open. If AGPTEK could design the card slot a little better, this review would have stayed at four stars. Original review (4 stars): This is my second AGPTEK mp3 player (I have been through half-a-dozen players in the last few years). This is a lot better alternative to the player that I previously owned. The main reason that I purchased this mp3 player was that it would be able to support 128GB of data! THAT IS HUGE! I currently have around 40GB of data, so I would not have needed that, but the fact that I do have the option is very handy! My main gripe with the product is that it's operating system is overally complicated while not being able to do anything faster or better than other competing players. The build material quality is also lacking, but I was not expecting much at this price. In conclusion, this is a great bargain if you have loads of downloaded music that you need to put onto a portable player without wasting space on your phone. If this review was helpful, please give it a like. Thanks!

Let me start by stating I have not utilized all the options in this device. I simply need an mp3 player that will shuffle my vast music collection while I drive my work vehicle around town (after I've had enough of the news for the day), and that's it. After many years of frustration with Apple, they burned me for the very last time (they erased all my mp3's I didn't purchase from them and all the music I painstakingly converted from my extensive CD collection). I decided to never give them any more of my hard earned money and have abandoned their products. After researching, I landed on the Sony Walkman, a very fine device with superior features to ipod. Sadly, it doesn't have enough and/or expandable storage where I could load my entire library and costs more than I need to spend on an mp3 player. Then I found AGPtEK. For a fraction of the price, I could get an mp3 player where I can load a 64 gb micro SD card with all my music (actually, up to 4000 files between onboard storage and SD card, I guess) and I figured for the price, I could take the gamble that it would meet my needs. So far so good. Something that stands out early on is the battery life. Granted, I only listen for an hour or two here and there, but a couple weeks later and the battery indicator bar has only begun to show a dent. UI is no trouble. I read reviews where it's an issue for some people and was a little worried. But I never read the instruction booklet and was easily able to figure out how to navigate this thing. Most people should not have a problem. The shuffle feature is the best I've ever experienced. When I turn it on, it always starts at the same song, but after I skip forward the shuffle begins and always plays a different mix, never repeating a track. In fact, in the last two weeks of multiple sessions, I have not heard any tracks repeated from the first time I turned it on. I guess there's a way to set up playlists by connecting to a PC, but I personally don't need that at this time. I know this is a deal maker/breaker for many. My review is solely based on my limited needs. To sum this baby up, I'd call it a glorified ipod shuffle. But it can store all your music, will never rip you off, never become obsolete after a couple years or a software update and never, ever steal your files. Oh, and only sells for $25. I just purchased another one for the wife.

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.