Tayogo 2nd Generation Swimming Mp3 Player, 8GB Memory, IPX8 Waterproof Certified, Magnetic Charging, 20H Playing time, MP3/FM Mode for Swimming -Yellow

This is my second one of these, the first one lasted a couple of years and then the wires to the ear buds started wearing out and I lost sound to the left ear. But still, a couple of years of swimming 1-3x/week is a good run for a headset, so I bought a second one. The earbuds on this model have been improved over the first one so they fit better and it's easier to keep the water out. Battery life is great, I only have to charge it like once a month for around 10 hours of play time (at least). I once tried a bluetooth headset for swimming and rapidly found out that they work poorly in the water because it interferes with the bluetooth signal, so the MP3 player style like this one was a must. The MP3 player is very easy to use -- just plug it into USB like a memory stick and drag and drop. The one thing to watch out for is that the ear bud covers can slip off, especially if you use it in the pool where everything is wet. I recommend gluing them on once you find out which size works best for you. I did that with my first one and they were great after that. I didn't do it quickly enough on this one, and lost one of the covers nearly immediately, but I wrote to the company and they provided excellent customer service and are sending me new ones. Overall it's much better to swim with tunes than without, and I'm happy that this headset lets me do that with a minimum of hassle and expense.

I recently began swimming laps for exercise. I have always listened to music when working out and was frustrated by the need to leave my usual earbuds in my gym bag while in the pool. This MP3 player solves that problem. At first I thought waterproof bluetooth earbuds would be the best choice for me but it turns out bluetooth doesn't transmit well under water. I gave this MP3 player a try and am very happy with it. The sound quality from it while in the water is not as good as what you'd get from high quality non-waterproof earbuds but it is still pretty good- amazing considering The MP3 player pops out of the back of the headband and then plugs into a USB port to be loaded. Loading it with music just required dragging and dropping the songs I wanted onto the icon for the MP3 player. I swim 45-60 minutes per day, 5-6 days/week and have gone 2-3 weeks without charging this. I've never had the battery die on it so I don't know how many hours of play you could get out of it before needing to charge it. I have a fairly big head but this fits comfortably. It does not interfere with the straps for my goggles and controlling it while wearing it is easy as the volume, pause/play, and rewind/fast forward buttons are intuitively placed. The earbuds do get a bit warm in your ears while using this, but not uncomfortably so. The wire from the headband to the earbuds does seem somewhat fragile, so I am careful about never pulling the headband off my head by the wires or pulling the earbuds out of my ears by the wires. I know others reviewing this have found those wires to be a failure point. I'll update this review if that is ever an issue for me.

I just tried these out today and they were great! The sound was good and they added motivation to my swim. I'm not a vigorous swimmer, but they did get wet and were fine. When I first put them on I wasn't getting sound in the right ear, but I wiggled it a little and it started, and never cut out again. Downloading music was easy - just drag and drop. I can't figure out how to order the songs like a playlist, though (don't know if there is even that option for that). I would definitely recommend these (and already have!). (June 7) I am changing my review to 1 star - would do ZERO if I could. I returned my first pair after 2 uses because the right ear kept cutting out. I though I better return while could. The next pair I got had issues with the right ear as well, and in addition would just stop playing and have to be reset every time it got to a certain song. :( I should have known that $50 was too good to be true. My friend ordered a pair, also, and she is returning hers Monday because they stopped working on the first outting. I give 5 stars to Amazon - they overnighted the second pair with no shipping cost and are also waiving the shipping for the waterproof iPod that I ordered today.

I received this as a Christmas gift in December 2017. I started using it in early January 2018. Here's what happened. Early months: was pleased at how easy it is to add or remove music - just drag and drop (on Windows, anyway). I use the largest/longest ear buds. They would fall out once in a while, but overall stayed in pretty well. They don't completely block the water as really good earplugs do, but fairly close. I found that not pulling my swim cap over the ears was better, since swim cap movement tends to pull the buds out of my ears. First issues about 6 months in: at this point the ear bud pieces would come off the studs fairly easily. They just no longer gripped. I experimented a bit, and found that Liquid Nails was a good solution. See photo. By applying Liquid Nails to the seam where the ear buds went on the studs, they stopped coming off. Totally stopped. Never have had one come off since. I reapplied a thin layer of Liquid Nails about every month or two just to be sure. At 13 months I ran an experiment of not charging them to see how long they would go. I was somewhat shocked as I swam 18 times before the battery died mid-swim. Approximately 15-16 hours of use time on a single charge for the 13-month-old device. I'll take it. At 14 months, I lost sound in the right ear when the thin wire leading out of the yellow plastic frayed. It hasn't completely broken off, but it might as well. In retrospect, this thin connecting space is another place where a bit of liquid nails might have paid off - before the wire was damaged. The sound is okay (for me, not an audiophile), but nothing is going to be great while splashing around in the pool. I find that the music really helps me keep going while lap swimming. I swim laps on average 4 days a week, usually a little less than an hour, so probably 3 hours per week, on average. So, during the 14 months of use, I probably swam for about 180 hours. So, was it worth the price I paid? Yes, I would say so. Nothing like this will last forever. I feel like I got pretty good value out of these things. Guess I need another one.

This player was amazing at first ... easy to wear in the pool, simple to use, long battery life, great sound even underwater. But after a few months it seemed to develop a loose connection. The sound would cut out, sometimes entirely or sometimes only on 1 side. Wiggling / re-seating the player sometimes could temporarily fix it but it would happen again soon. It was difficult to contact Tayogo, but eventually I got in touch with them and they sent me a new player. Great! I figured I just got a bad one. I used the new one for a couple of months and it worked fine ... then one day when I went to load more music on it, the USB connector physically snapped off. As much as I love the design and sound of this player, I have to conclude it's basically a piece of junk. This is not a quality item. There are a number of waterproof mp3 players that cost substantially more than this one, and I guess there is a reason for that. If you want one that lasts more than 2 or 3 months you might have to shell out for one that's better made.

I swim for an hour twice a week. I charge the device for at least 8 - 12 hours the night before and take it to work in the morning. However, it is not uncommon for the player to die on me after 20 to 30 minutes. I was very frustrated because I couldn't figure out how to be sure it is off. I read the manual (which tells you this is a counterintuitive device... it is an MP3 player / USB drive... should I really need a manual?) I realized what I thought was the on/off switch was the Reset button... I read that the device is powered on and off by holding the play/pause button for 5 seconds. Ok, I thought I have been doing it wrong... my fault. Well after 2 sessions of following the directions the battery is still dying on me. I can only assume that this means the device is using power while I think it is off... There should be a dedicated power button that is clearly on or off... Other than the above I really like the device. It is a waterproof MP3 player for a great price, if I could just figure out how to make sure it is off, I would be thrilled with it. I fully submerge it in a lap pool and a jacuzzi.

I swim every day, and this Tayogo player is always with me. It's probably been in the water 200 hours, and it still looks and works(ed) as new (more on that, below). It's a pretty ingenious design, the way the player pops out of the headset; just plug it like a flash drive and load it up with tunes. Battery-life is at phenomenal, too; at least 10 hours, in my experience. I've had some really expensive underwater players, and none of them has lasted more than a couple of months, but I've had this one a year with absolutely no problems. That is, until last week, when the right-side audio wire to the earbud broke, inside the insulation. I emailed Tayogo, thru Amazon, and immediately got a reply from Jason who promised to have a new unit sent out to me, no charge! I received it within a week, and it's even an improved model, with sturdier insulation at those weak points, and better-shaped earbuds. And a 2-year warranty; who does that? Way to go, Tayogo -- I'm a customer for life. Don't change your design, either -- it's perfect! ********************** Just bought my third Tayogo player, and I still love them. They're in the pool every day, and they last about 2 years. I've never had one fail for electronic reasons -- I actually still have all three snap-in player components. What tends to give way through constant brushing and yanking are the earbud wire connections. But if you're swimming laps freestyle, then your shoulders are constantly rubbing your ears; time and wear take a toll. Thank you, Tayogo; I will buy more!

I used the previous model until it stopped working. That was about a couple of years. Got this one this morning and loaded a podcast. I listen to podcasts while I'm swimming laps. It helps to while away the time. Daily swimming and bicycling are my forms of therapy to keep my body in decent shape. I'm 72. I've been through numerous devices over the last 20 years and generally the investment is well over one hundred dollars each time. They only last a couple of years or so. This one was under $40 and the audio is pretty good. You can certainly spend more but I don't think you can get something that's really any better and this one is an improvement over the previous Tayogo model. Update: This is now January 2021 so I've been using this for about ten weeks now. No problems. If you have long hair you need to sweep it out of the way when you insert the earpieces into your ears. If you do that carefully you can hear clearly for the length of your swim. For me it's 45 to 50 minutes, six or seven times a week. When you plug it into the computer you delete the old mp3 and drag and drop the new one(s) out of iTunes. You then close the app and disconnect the device. You then have to make sure that you depress the stop/start button until the light goes off so that you don't play the mp3 and run down the battery.

Ich habe meiner Frau diesen wasserdichten MP3 Player für ihre Schwimmtermine geschenkt. Natürlich musste ich dieses Gerät vorher testen. Man(n) verschenkt ja keinen Schrott. Also erst einmal Stöpsel aufgezogen. Dieser Vorgang ist nicht ganz leicht und bedarf Ruhe und Fingerspitzengefühl. Ich habe wirklich etwas Zeit und eine Pinzette gebraucht und die Ohrstöpsel auf zu ziehen. Diese sind super empfindlich und können schnell einreißen. Dann die Lieder aufgespielt. Einfach!! Und dann ab in die Schwimmhalle. Sitz: am Anfang etwas ungewohnt, da der Player stramm an den Schläfen sitzt. Aber nach kurzer Zeit ist dieses Gefühl verschwunden. Tipp: Player schon vor dem Duschen starten und die Stöpsel ebenfalls vor dem Duschen in die Ohren. Die Stöpsel müssen reingedreht werden. Der Klang wirkt am Anfang dumpf, erholt sich aber gleich wieder. Bedienung ist nach etwas Üben kinderleicht. So - im Wasser. Tauchen: in ca. 1m Tiefe wird die Musik leiser. Druck nimmt zu. Aber wer schwimmt schon in 1m Wassertiefe. Brustschwimmen und Kraulen geht prima. Stöpsel halten. 15 Minuten Brustschwimmen und 10 Minuten Kraulen und mit Musik macht das Ganze doppelt Spaß. Der Klang ist mehr als gut. Bass und Höhen sind gut aufeinander abgestimmt. Nach dem Test habe ich mich schon geärgert, dass ich mir nicht auch einen Player bestellt habe. Aber das kommt wohl noch. Fazit: Ein günstiger Player, der den Anforderungen im Wasser nachkommt und seinen Zweck mehr als erfüllt. Und der Kundenservice stimmt auch. Mir ist beim Aufsetzen der Ohrstöpsel nämlich einer eingerissen. Tayogo kontaktiert und es wurden neue auf den Weg gebracht.

Je suis un nageur de bon niveau et l'utilise souvent mon casque MP3 donc. J'ai eu 4 mp3 avant celui-ci. Je peux donc parler avec expérience. Celui-ci je l'ai acheté il y a 1 ans 1/2 . Tenue sur la tête incroyable même pendant les virages le casque ne bouge pas. Niveau son le mp3 est excellent ! Les bouchons sont agréables et ne bougent pas. J'ai eu dernièrement un petit craquement du son à gauche, j'ai bien expliqué mon souci, j'ai reçu les démarches à suivre pour le réglage mais en vain, j'ai fait marcher la garantie et j'ai reçu immédiatement un autre casque. En conclusion c'est un très très bon produit fiable et solide la société est très sérieuse, je recommande sincèrement.

Tras unos días buscando unos auriculares para nadar me decidí por estos Tayogo y después de una semana usándolos diariamente estoy muy contento con la compra. Son muy fáciles de usar, pinchas el usb en el ordenador y arrastras las canciones que quieras, son fáciles de poner y muy cómodos. No se mueven mientras nadas y no notas presión en la cabeza. Y lo principal, el sonido es muy bueno y no se pierde al nadar. Totalmente recomendables.

This is the Best Buy ever, no more boring length after length, I’ve got music to improve my workout, I swim fast front crawl, and this headset has not hindered my speed at all, just makes me faster due to my tunes, I wore the band at the back of my head, like my goggles, then put goggles over and they did not interfere with each equipment, sound is great, fit easy into my ears and didn’t come out once, the charge lasts ages too, I also run and have gone through many many headphones, with problems with most of them, but these I have to say are perfect, hence my review as feel I’d like others to wear them and see for themselves, easy to load music on to as well, although my son in law did this for me, I could see it was easy to do. If you like swimming lengths after lengths these are so worth buying !!!!

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