AGPTEK A02S 16GB MP3 Player, 65 Hours Playback Music Player, Dark Blue | Lossless Sound, Supports up to 128GB

This MP3 player is very good for the price! Although it is all plastic, it is very durable. I've had it for almost a month, and it's been working flawlessly. I like the radio recording feature also. The sound quality is very great, probably the closest to lossless you can get. I am very happy with this device and would definitely buy again!!!!

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!

A little background for my review and how I use the product. I recently upgraded my car stereo because I could no longer stand just listening to the radio. Although I can use my phone, I wanted a dedicated device to hold most or all of my music collection and that I could leave in the car all the time. This player was great for that purpose. Set up was incredibly simple, someone mentioned being unable to set up time and all I could think was did we get a different player?I set up all the settings and began the transfer of my music collection to a 64 GB SD I had lying around in under 5 minutes. I will say that it might take a few minutes to get used to the control scheme but it isn’t bad and is fairly intuitive.I now leave the device in my car plugged into the usb and aux port. It sucks that the player cannot play the music out through USB. That would be my biggest negative.However, the player works as promised with a few quirks. I would definitely recommend this product for the price and SD expansion ability. If I were to wish for any changes it would be to make a more premium version that has a more solid, maybe metal construction with a interface more like an iPod classic. Well that’s just in general, I wish the iPod Classic would come back with expandable SD storage.

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 sortWho 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.Pros1. 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.Cons1. 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.

Important Update: I am having a bit of trouble trying to find the "Perfect" ear buds. It's become an obsession. I have found out by going through several buds lately, that the POWER that your buds will allow, directly affects the sound that the AGPtek PUTS OUT. So, if your buds are just...meh...then this device will sound only mediocre to you. Keep this in mind before you judge this pod..End of update.REVIEW:To free up my phone, and keep all the music THAT I BOUGHT right where it's SUPPOSED to be: ON MY DEVICE. I decided to get one of these pods. But I wanted something really really simple. Compared to others, this IS simple. It takes a while to get the hang of the settings. I listen to music (the main thing I bought it for) but it will also play radio stations, text, voice recorder, video, e-book reader... I don't know what all it CAN do. The instructions are in English, but they really do not make a whole lot of sense. It's like reading the description of the color purple. So, I do what I always do: start pushing buttons until you get to where you want to be. One thing that really grabbed my attention. Is the giant storage capacity that this tiny thing can hold. With 8 gig's of internal storage (probably takes that much for system software) and then the micro chips you can load up and put in there is impressive. You can purchase 32gig, or 64gig!? Now I know my way around a phone and a tablet, and how music sounds. The AGPtekth is impressive. I picked this one out because it would work with the music format that I use to download the music onto the chip. It also did not come with ear buds, which I did not need (ergo, the update) I have a pair that I really like. So I bought this player. I ordered the 32gig chip and put maybe (close) to three hundred songs on the chip. It was like throwing a water balloon into the ocean. Then I fumbled through the settings and managed to get ALL- MUSIC, SHUFFLE going. That oughta do it, right? I plug my bud's in, crank it up...and, wow! This little thing will JAM! Seriously! I'm half deaf and have tinnitus and I AM SMILING LIKE AN IDIOT, as this thing roars in my ears. It's every bit as loud as any of my larger devices! Oh, I can pause, skip, fast forward, rewind, unlock and LOCK the screen (so it doesn't go crazy in your pocket) and honestly that's all I wanted it for. The battery capacity is unbelievable. I mean, I've listened to it for two days (about fifteen hours) fell asleep with it one night, and I check the battery icon? It hasn't EVEN MOVED. The product details says it has a seventy hour run time ( it took me a week to run it down) The tiny screen shows album art and lyrics. I am really happy. Not only can I clear my phone of all the music, but the drain on my phone's battery will really drop now as well, because I'll have this tiny device going instead. And I still am amazed that all that sound is coming out of a thing thats the size of a pack of gum. Maybe one day I'll try to figure some of the other stuff out......nah, probably not. Crank it up! :)

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.

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!

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 getting 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 version has both a speaker and Bluetooth built-in, as well as USB-C to recharge.Out of curiosity on February 2025, I decided to go and buy that model and after using it for a few months, I found that it's just as good as the non Bluetooth version.- 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 screen while you're actually driving.It was the main reason why I even bought this and it helps out big time.

My daughter was a long user of the Ruizu MP3 player until recently the button was spoilt. I came across this product as a substitute and found it similar to Ruizu. The main features I was looking for were: (1) long battery life, (2) fuss-free, simple to use and transfer songs, as well as (3) pretty design where possible. This product fulfills the above features really well. The one feature I forgot to check was the availability of speaker mode. This product didn't come with a speaker function which is rather unfortunate as it was one of the frequently used feature of my daughter. But all in all, it's a good buy considering the price.

This is the second one I have owned, the same 6 year old product just died on me, not bad price for 6 years of good service. This new one is greatly improved, new screen, better lighting, battery life excellent and as advertised, better sound than the last. over all I am a customer for life- I will never buy anything else but this product. And you can't beat the price. Way better than my sony ever performed. Highly recommend.

Vary Good quality and easy to us. I love the on off button.

Apenas llevo unos minutos usándolo, muy fácil de usar, ligero, y tiene un sonido muy bueno y fuerte, valió la pena comprarlo!

waste of money