--- product_id: 14745835 title: "Pono Music Portable Music Player, Black" brand: "ponomusic" price: "€ 9.48" currency: EUR in_stock: false reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.sk/products/14745835-pono-music-portable-music-player-black store_origin: SK region: Slovakia --- # High-res audio support 64GB internal storage 8-hour battery life Pono Music Portable Music Player, Black **Brand:** ponomusic **Price:** € 9.48 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > 🎧 Elevate Your Sound Experience! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Pono Music Portable Music Player, Black by ponomusic - **How much does it cost?** € 9.48 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sk](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/14745835-pono-music-portable-music-player-black) ## Best For - ponomusic enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted ponomusic brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Expandable Storage:** Never run out of space with Micro SD support for endless music options. - • **Compact & Lightweight:** Take your music anywhere with a sleek design that weighs just 0.28 lbs. - • **Unmatched Audio Quality:** Experience music like never before with high-resolution playback. - • **Versatile Format Support:** Play all your favorite formats, from FLAC to DSD, effortlessly. - • **Extended Listening Pleasure:** Enjoy hours of fatigue-free listening with superior sound clarity. ## Overview The Pono Music Portable Music Player delivers an unparalleled audio experience with support for high-resolution music files and a variety of formats. With 64GB of internal memory and the ability to expand via Micro SD, this lightweight device ensures you can enjoy your favorite tracks for up to 8 hours on a single charge. Perfect for audiophiles on the go! ## Description Pono is the culmination of Neil Young’s vision to bring the quality of music that he and other artists experience in the studio to everyone. Pono plays high-resolution music files and other formats better than any portable device. Pono supports playback of high-fidelity audio of up to 192kHz/24 bit resolution including DSD. Review: An amazing music player for the audiophile on the go... - Well, after months of deliberation I bought my own pono player right here in desertcart.com. I have done my home work and have been reading and watching anything I could find on this player. I am an audiophile for the last 30 years of my life so bells and whistles were NOT my goal. I just wanted a portable music player that gave me the best possible quality in music playback without breaking the bank. The price of the Pono player is not low but I believe it is fair for what it offers: A first class high res. file player, including a great DAC and a solid headphone amp. I just wanted to have something that could drive my headphones (Etymotic ER4S for travel and Audeze LCD-XC at home or hotel listening). As I mentioned earlier my single main qualifier for a music player is audio quality and I am happy to say that the Pono DELIVERS the goods and more! As soon as I received the player I left it charging or a few hours and then anxiously sat down and listened to the only track the player came with, Neil Young's "There's a world" using my Etymotics first. The sound was really impressive compared to my Samsung S5 or my daughter's iPhone 5S (I have Neil's Harvest album in Flac). The differences are NOT subtle as many self made critics and Pseudo audio experts claim. They are actually HUGE! Of course this needs a good pair of headphones just like a good stereo needs a pair of great speakers. With the Etymotics the player sounded, smooth, extended and really musical. I missed a little extra volume but I could live with this... The real surprise and shock came when I connected my Audeze LCD XCs to the player. I had to lower the volume to a little more than half in order not to hurt my ears and the sound was...nothing less than sublime! No, it can not be compared to my big stereo and my Audeze's connected to my Shiit Lyr amp but it was so close it is scary.. Excited I decided to download some of my own FLAC files (made from my own CDs) to the player and things got really interesting: When playing really high quality recordings of music I love (eg. Daft Punk RAM, Diana Kralls' Live in Paris etc) the sound was nothing less than amazing. This time even with my Etymotics I had to lower the volume a few notches (to about 65%) in order to avoid hurting my hearing. I could really live with this combo for the rest of my life if I had to... I will not go into details about the player itself because they are covered extensively in various sites and by other reviewers at desertcart. My goal here was to let you know that the pono is one heck of a little player that gives you way more than its size and cost would let you believe. A comment regarding some of the "testimonials" in the Pono Site by various celebrities. YES they are way OVER THE TOP (really, none of those celebrities ever listened to a real Hi End system in their lives?) and I guess this has disturbed many people to the point that they have come to dislike the player even without ever listening to it. Too bad about that because the player IS incredible for a portable player. My advice to everyone is: Forget the hype and the hoopla and give it a try. desertcart is great taking items back if you are not satisfied. My guess is that once you hear what this player has to offer you will be keeping it. And one Lie: When I wrote this review I mentioned I could live happily with my Etymotic ER4S....I guess I lied even to my self. After hearing the incredible sound of my Audeze LCD XCs I decided to get something better for travel and I just bought a pair of custom made ACS headphones. I was using ACS ear pieces with my Etymotics and they have my ear canal impressions plus they have a program that gives a 20% discount to customers so I bought a pair of ACS Evolve Studios. I will report my findings when I receive these headphones... Final thoughts: I actually like the toblerone shape of the player. I would have preferred a better quality screen and a bit better HMI but for 400 bucks I am happy for what I am getting: Audio Nirvana on the Go! Very Highly recommended. UPDATE July 6, 2015: I have had the Pono for close to three weeks now and in two of my business trips. It is simply great! No hitch so far WITH ONE EXCEPTION, the Battery Life. It really stinks. I get about 5-6 hrs if I use the screen a lot. A bit more if I just listen to music. Come On Pono-People come up with a battery that I can easily replace and get some more serious time between charges... And now the story behind my new ACS Custom IEMs. I have been using my Pono with my Etymotic ER-4S. The combo (Pono/ER4S) sounds great but I was still NOT all that satisfied with the bass and most of all the max volume I could attain. Also I needed a pair of new custom made ear plugs by ACS Custom. Originally I was thinking to buy the new Etymotic ER-4Pt which is more efficient and supposedly has more bass than the ERs although from what I have read they do not sound as smooth as the ER4S. Etymotic is actually including an adaptor that can turn the ER4Pt to an ER4S... Anyway, still skeptical about this I called ACS Custom in New York to order a new pair of ear plugs and Adam talked to me about their totally custom Headphones ( In Ear Monitors, IEMs). They have 3 models from $400 with ONE driver, to about $1400 with Five drivers. I opted for the mid line "Evolves" which comes with Three Drivers, one for the Highs, one for the Mids and one for the Bass with a crossover for each. I was very nervous about this purchase because I had never heard of ACS Custom IEMs before and I also bought them "sight unseen"...as they say based on Adam's recommendation. Boy am I glad I did that! To make a long story short once the IEMs were properly broken in (for me 2-3 days of heavy playing w/o much listening) and, even more important, once I learned how to put them in my ears I ended up literally BLOWN AWAY by a sound that rivals (NO EXAGGERATION) my $80,000+ system! I mean, this time I have it all. The highs are sublime, smooth and extended, the mids are life like, smooth and amazing and the bass...well, the bass is one of the deepest, most high end absolutely out of this world bass I have ever heard from a headphone set or, dare I say, speakers, period. They almost equal my Audeze LCD XC in every way and they fit in the palm of my hand... The Pono/ACS combo is seriously our of this world and brings me sound I only dreamt about before, let alone sound I can have on my trips. By the way, YES I did compare again the sound of the Pono, my Samsung S5, my Ipod Clasic, my daughter's iPhone and my lap top computer and the differences among them are now totally easy (really trivial) to tell with the Pono proving its hi-end origins with ANY file I have in it (mainly FLAC but also some MP3 320bps). Please forgive my enthusiasm and over the top mini review but I really cannot put in lesser words what I hear from this amazing combo...it is really incredible. If you are interested in having your Hi End stereo sound in your trips give the Pono a chance and also ACS a call, talk to either Adam or AJ and pay very careful attention to what they say! It will change your on the go life! Talking about Audio Nirvana on the go...I am finally there! Review: Pono Player IS a High Quality Full Resoution Player. - Ok, after weeding through most of the reviews on this product before I bought it, it was easy to determine those who purchased this that are NOT audio conscious and those who are. This file player sounds FANTASTIC!! The detail missing on compressed Mp3's, even at their highest res setting, is distinguishable. If you don't think so after buying and using this product you either have a rolled off hearing range or don't know what specific details in music exist that make it sound more detailed, and that is not a poke at anyone, it simply is fact. Those that can tell these differences usually are more musically inclined such as sound people, musicians, or just those with a trained ear. The player sounds very detailed and this observation of mine is simply from a FLAC file through my 2008 GM factory car stereo, not high bit resolution. So... that said, we now know why we bought this product in the first place, the SOUND! And I haven't even heard it at it's higher res rates!! Those happy with Mp3, you can certainly have them on lesser or more slim & smaller players, it's a free enterprise here! Is this player overkill? Certainly not! It actually is the best value for high resolution portable file playing out there. SONY is touting their high res walkman for about 3 times the cost. The next closest is the Astell & Kern. So if you wanted high quality full res file portability at the lowest possible cost, here it is! But it doesn't skimp on anything, it actually does the ONE thing and ONLY the ONE thing you bought it for, plays music!! It doesn't have e-mail, blutooth, wifi, etc. High quality sound usually needs to be hard wired to be consistent and clean. While those connectivity methods are convenient they can have their drawbacks, but it also keeps the cost down on the Pono. The thing was designed by Ayre Electronics, the manufacturer of high end audio components, so the line is usually drawn there on who the buyer market is. Those that buy high end audio gear because they can hear the difference are the ones that will appreciate this player. The casual or unaware listeners will think it is overkill just out of innocent ignorance. Now, for physicality, do I like the triangular chassis of this thing? Not in particular, but if the engineers needed it to be this way it was for a reason. That reason is the high quality digital to analog converter could not be reshaped any changed to be any smaller or flatter, so the chassis is what it is. It's not like it's a surprise. I knew what it was before I ordered it. I also scoped out where my sources were going to be and it did not include the Pono store, which is currently being rebuilt and reconfigured, so that wasn't an issue like it was for one review I read. The store is in fact independent from the product and doesn't need to exist for me at least. Again, I did my homework before whining about it after the fact. In actual fact, the only thing I actually didn't like, in fact hated, but kept the rating at 5 stars anyway because it isn't actually required to run the player, was the damn Pono Music software that manages the files and music on it. It is/was a freaking MESS!!! At least for me, but since I use drag & drop for my SONY Walkman and am not an iTunes user, I leave a learning curve factor in for myself as I may not have learned the best way to use it. But after mucking with it for more than several hours, still had to feel my way around to rip a red book CD, tag it and load it on to the player. It took WAY longer that it ever should have. I finally lost my patience when I imported an existing Mp3 folder with 3 internal folders, all sorted and in particular order, and it just spread them all over the library in random order (I think by alphabetical by song title). So this could have been my negligence or stupidity, I'm not an expert at this stuff by any means. However I do work in computers and can tell you that most applications are not that difficult to feel your way through and for higher detailed info. Anyway, the REAL clincher came the other night as was trying to delete the mess of songs that spilled all over my (up to that point) organized library. The Pono program kept locking up and after 4 restarts, says that the current version will expire at midnight on 12.31.2016. Not a clincher yet!! I was elated in the fact that perhaps I am not the only one that thinks the Pono Music app is a bit silly, if not a total mess. The clincher came when after downloading the new version, finding out that it is NOT supported on WIN XP !!! BUT is IS supported on WIN VISTA, an even older version of Windows! Of coarse WIN7, WIN8, WIN8.1 & WIN10 are all supported and you MAC users have a totally different download. SO, until I upgrade my home PC (which it actually is in dire need of), I will not be able to see the advantages of the new Pono music app!! I am going to have to just drag & drop until then so I can still use the player, which (since it is the actual star of the review here) IS the sonic champ it is touted to be and I LOVE it regardless of the other details!!! Hope this helps anyone thinking on purchasing this device! Most folks rate a product on it's entire package. Part of the engineering of this product is that it is able to run without the Pono Music store or application, so I discarded them and based the review on the player alone. It was conceived by a music artist for the original intent to play music files as high a quality as the playback system you plug it into!!! Enjoy ! ! ## Features - plays high-resolution music files and other formats better than any portable device.The experience is especially noticeable while listening for an extended time. Unlike lower resolution content that gets tiring and often unpleasant over time, high resolution music becomes more enjoyable the longer you listen. - Ayre Acoustics DAC - Supports FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, Unprotected AAC, DSD - Lossless playback up to 192/24 bit - 64GB internal memory ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B00W5X1O8C | | Additional Features | Hi-Res Audio | | Battery Average Life | 8 hours | | Brand | PonoMusic | | Built-In Media | USB Cable, User Manual | | Color | Black | | Compatible Devices | Headphone, Earphone | | Component Type | Memory | | Connectivity Technology | Aux, USB | | Customer Reviews | 3.8 out of 5 stars 102 Reviews | | Display Technology | LCD | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00859195005037 | | Item Weight | 4.48 ounces | | Manufacturer | PonoMusic | | Memory Storage Capacity | 64 GB | | Mfr Part Number | NY001BB | | Model Number | NY001BB | | Screen Size | 1.54 | | Special Feature | Hi-Res Audio | | Supported Media Type | Micro SD | | Supported Standards | FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, AAC (unprotected), and MP3 files | | UPC | 859195005037 | ## Product Details - **Brand:** PonoMusic - **Special Feature:** Hi-Res Audio - **Connectivity Technology:** Aux, USB - **Memory Storage Capacity:** 64 GB - **Color:** Black - **Screen Size:** 1.54 - **Compatible Devices:** Headphone, Earphone - **Media Type:** Micro SD - **Included Components:** USB Cable, User Manual - **Display Technology:** LCD ## Images ![Pono Music Portable Music Player, Black - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71+xgZfxhLL.jpg) ![Pono Music Portable Music Player, Black - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81PukPeq9aL.jpg) ![Pono Music Portable Music Player, Black - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81oWnKdeoTL.jpg) ![Pono Music Portable Music Player, Black - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81w95sl0erL.jpg) ![Pono Music Portable Music Player, Black - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71ytpgzXboL.jpg) ## Questions & Answers **Q: Does this player only play Neil Young songs, or can it play music from other artists?** A: The Pono Player plays music from any artist. It can play numerous digital music file types like FLAC, MP3, ALAC, WAV, etc. Accepts micro sd memory cards, or connect directly to your computer to load the player with your music. **Q: Can i use my itunes library on this and if so, will i actually hear the difference ?** A: Not unless your iTunes library was originally-produced, mastered in a hi-resolution format -such formats are significantly more expensive to produce and purchase and you generally know if your music was produced/purchased as such. Recommend reading this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-resolution_audio . Pono is largely about its hi-res music store. If you already own hi-res music, there are also cheaper options that aren't linked to a store, such as http://www.amazon.com/Fiio-X1-FiiO-Gold/dp/B00PQ2UVHY/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1443099469&sr=8-4&keywords=high+resolution+audio here at Amazon. **Q: will this play live concert tracks seamlessly from track to track (gapless) without putting that annoying "click" between tracks?** A: Yes. I'm listening to Richard Thompson's Live Warrior right now, and it sounds as gapless as possible. If I recall correctly, one of the first firmware updates really tuned up the gapless feature. **Q: Does it have a headphone amp in addition to the DAC?** A: The audio circuit is by Ayre Audio and is simply better than anything at many times the price -- the DAC and the audio amplifier are each state of the art. The audio output stage comprises discreet transistors. Technically, it has four amps, capable of driving a set of stereo headphones in balanced mode. It was designed to be able to drive a wide range of headphones including full size around-ear headphones. For example it will drove sennheiser 600s and 650s without any need for a booster or headphone amp.. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An amazing music player for the audiophile on the go... *by A***R on June 14, 2015* Well, after months of deliberation I bought my own pono player right here in amazon.com. I have done my home work and have been reading and watching anything I could find on this player. I am an audiophile for the last 30 years of my life so bells and whistles were NOT my goal. I just wanted a portable music player that gave me the best possible quality in music playback without breaking the bank. The price of the Pono player is not low but I believe it is fair for what it offers: A first class high res. file player, including a great DAC and a solid headphone amp. I just wanted to have something that could drive my headphones (Etymotic ER4S for travel and Audeze LCD-XC at home or hotel listening). As I mentioned earlier my single main qualifier for a music player is audio quality and I am happy to say that the Pono DELIVERS the goods and more! As soon as I received the player I left it charging or a few hours and then anxiously sat down and listened to the only track the player came with, Neil Young's "There's a world" using my Etymotics first. The sound was really impressive compared to my Samsung S5 or my daughter's iPhone 5S (I have Neil's Harvest album in Flac). The differences are NOT subtle as many self made critics and Pseudo audio experts claim. They are actually HUGE! Of course this needs a good pair of headphones just like a good stereo needs a pair of great speakers. With the Etymotics the player sounded, smooth, extended and really musical. I missed a little extra volume but I could live with this... The real surprise and shock came when I connected my Audeze LCD XCs to the player. I had to lower the volume to a little more than half in order not to hurt my ears and the sound was...nothing less than sublime! No, it can not be compared to my big stereo and my Audeze's connected to my Shiit Lyr amp but it was so close it is scary.. Excited I decided to download some of my own FLAC files (made from my own CDs) to the player and things got really interesting: When playing really high quality recordings of music I love (eg. Daft Punk RAM, Diana Kralls' Live in Paris etc) the sound was nothing less than amazing. This time even with my Etymotics I had to lower the volume a few notches (to about 65%) in order to avoid hurting my hearing. I could really live with this combo for the rest of my life if I had to... I will not go into details about the player itself because they are covered extensively in various sites and by other reviewers at amazon. My goal here was to let you know that the pono is one heck of a little player that gives you way more than its size and cost would let you believe. A comment regarding some of the "testimonials" in the Pono Site by various celebrities. YES they are way OVER THE TOP (really, none of those celebrities ever listened to a real Hi End system in their lives?) and I guess this has disturbed many people to the point that they have come to dislike the player even without ever listening to it. Too bad about that because the player IS incredible for a portable player. My advice to everyone is: Forget the hype and the hoopla and give it a try. Amazon is great taking items back if you are not satisfied. My guess is that once you hear what this player has to offer you will be keeping it. And one Lie: When I wrote this review I mentioned I could live happily with my Etymotic ER4S....I guess I lied even to my self. After hearing the incredible sound of my Audeze LCD XCs I decided to get something better for travel and I just bought a pair of custom made ACS headphones. I was using ACS ear pieces with my Etymotics and they have my ear canal impressions plus they have a program that gives a 20% discount to customers so I bought a pair of ACS Evolve Studios. I will report my findings when I receive these headphones... Final thoughts: I actually like the toblerone shape of the player. I would have preferred a better quality screen and a bit better HMI but for 400 bucks I am happy for what I am getting: Audio Nirvana on the Go! Very Highly recommended. UPDATE July 6, 2015: I have had the Pono for close to three weeks now and in two of my business trips. It is simply great! No hitch so far WITH ONE EXCEPTION, the Battery Life. It really stinks. I get about 5-6 hrs if I use the screen a lot. A bit more if I just listen to music. Come On Pono-People come up with a battery that I can easily replace and get some more serious time between charges... And now the story behind my new ACS Custom IEMs. I have been using my Pono with my Etymotic ER-4S. The combo (Pono/ER4S) sounds great but I was still NOT all that satisfied with the bass and most of all the max volume I could attain. Also I needed a pair of new custom made ear plugs by ACS Custom. Originally I was thinking to buy the new Etymotic ER-4Pt which is more efficient and supposedly has more bass than the ERs although from what I have read they do not sound as smooth as the ER4S. Etymotic is actually including an adaptor that can turn the ER4Pt to an ER4S... Anyway, still skeptical about this I called ACS Custom in New York to order a new pair of ear plugs and Adam talked to me about their totally custom Headphones ( In Ear Monitors, IEMs). They have 3 models from $400 with ONE driver, to about $1400 with Five drivers. I opted for the mid line "Evolves" which comes with Three Drivers, one for the Highs, one for the Mids and one for the Bass with a crossover for each. I was very nervous about this purchase because I had never heard of ACS Custom IEMs before and I also bought them "sight unseen"...as they say based on Adam's recommendation. Boy am I glad I did that! To make a long story short once the IEMs were properly broken in (for me 2-3 days of heavy playing w/o much listening) and, even more important, once I learned how to put them in my ears I ended up literally BLOWN AWAY by a sound that rivals (NO EXAGGERATION) my $80,000+ system! I mean, this time I have it all. The highs are sublime, smooth and extended, the mids are life like, smooth and amazing and the bass...well, the bass is one of the deepest, most high end absolutely out of this world bass I have ever heard from a headphone set or, dare I say, speakers, period. They almost equal my Audeze LCD XC in every way and they fit in the palm of my hand... The Pono/ACS combo is seriously our of this world and brings me sound I only dreamt about before, let alone sound I can have on my trips. By the way, YES I did compare again the sound of the Pono, my Samsung S5, my Ipod Clasic, my daughter's iPhone and my lap top computer and the differences among them are now totally easy (really trivial) to tell with the Pono proving its hi-end origins with ANY file I have in it (mainly FLAC but also some MP3 320bps). Please forgive my enthusiasm and over the top mini review but I really cannot put in lesser words what I hear from this amazing combo...it is really incredible. If you are interested in having your Hi End stereo sound in your trips give the Pono a chance and also ACS a call, talk to either Adam or AJ and pay very careful attention to what they say! It will change your on the go life! Talking about Audio Nirvana on the go...I am finally there! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pono Player IS a High Quality Full Resoution Player. *by J***I on January 4, 2017* Ok, after weeding through most of the reviews on this product before I bought it, it was easy to determine those who purchased this that are NOT audio conscious and those who are. This file player sounds FANTASTIC!! The detail missing on compressed Mp3's, even at their highest res setting, is distinguishable. If you don't think so after buying and using this product you either have a rolled off hearing range or don't know what specific details in music exist that make it sound more detailed, and that is not a poke at anyone, it simply is fact. Those that can tell these differences usually are more musically inclined such as sound people, musicians, or just those with a trained ear. The player sounds very detailed and this observation of mine is simply from a FLAC file through my 2008 GM factory car stereo, not high bit resolution. So... that said, we now know why we bought this product in the first place, the SOUND! And I haven't even heard it at it's higher res rates!! Those happy with Mp3, you can certainly have them on lesser or more slim & smaller players, it's a free enterprise here! Is this player overkill? Certainly not! It actually is the best value for high resolution portable file playing out there. SONY is touting their high res walkman for about 3 times the cost. The next closest is the Astell & Kern. So if you wanted high quality full res file portability at the lowest possible cost, here it is! But it doesn't skimp on anything, it actually does the ONE thing and ONLY the ONE thing you bought it for, plays music!! It doesn't have e-mail, blutooth, wifi, etc. High quality sound usually needs to be hard wired to be consistent and clean. While those connectivity methods are convenient they can have their drawbacks, but it also keeps the cost down on the Pono. The thing was designed by Ayre Electronics, the manufacturer of high end audio components, so the line is usually drawn there on who the buyer market is. Those that buy high end audio gear because they can hear the difference are the ones that will appreciate this player. The casual or unaware listeners will think it is overkill just out of innocent ignorance. Now, for physicality, do I like the triangular chassis of this thing? Not in particular, but if the engineers needed it to be this way it was for a reason. That reason is the high quality digital to analog converter could not be reshaped any changed to be any smaller or flatter, so the chassis is what it is. It's not like it's a surprise. I knew what it was before I ordered it. I also scoped out where my sources were going to be and it did not include the Pono store, which is currently being rebuilt and reconfigured, so that wasn't an issue like it was for one review I read. The store is in fact independent from the product and doesn't need to exist for me at least. Again, I did my homework before whining about it after the fact. In actual fact, the only thing I actually didn't like, in fact hated, but kept the rating at 5 stars anyway because it isn't actually required to run the player, was the damn Pono Music software that manages the files and music on it. It is/was a freaking MESS!!! At least for me, but since I use drag & drop for my SONY Walkman and am not an iTunes user, I leave a learning curve factor in for myself as I may not have learned the best way to use it. But after mucking with it for more than several hours, still had to feel my way around to rip a red book CD, tag it and load it on to the player. It took WAY longer that it ever should have. I finally lost my patience when I imported an existing Mp3 folder with 3 internal folders, all sorted and in particular order, and it just spread them all over the library in random order (I think by alphabetical by song title). So this could have been my negligence or stupidity, I'm not an expert at this stuff by any means. However I do work in computers and can tell you that most applications are not that difficult to feel your way through and for higher detailed info. Anyway, the REAL clincher came the other night as was trying to delete the mess of songs that spilled all over my (up to that point) organized library. The Pono program kept locking up and after 4 restarts, says that the current version will expire at midnight on 12.31.2016. Not a clincher yet!! I was elated in the fact that perhaps I am not the only one that thinks the Pono Music app is a bit silly, if not a total mess. The clincher came when after downloading the new version, finding out that it is NOT supported on WIN XP !!! BUT is IS supported on WIN VISTA, an even older version of Windows! Of coarse WIN7, WIN8, WIN8.1 & WIN10 are all supported and you MAC users have a totally different download. SO, until I upgrade my home PC (which it actually is in dire need of), I will not be able to see the advantages of the new Pono music app!! I am going to have to just drag & drop until then so I can still use the player, which (since it is the actual star of the review here) IS the sonic champ it is touted to be and I LOVE it regardless of the other details!!! Hope this helps anyone thinking on purchasing this device! Most folks rate a product on it's entire package. Part of the engineering of this product is that it is able to run without the Pono Music store or application, so I discarded them and based the review on the player alone. It was conceived by a music artist for the original intent to play music files as high a quality as the playback system you plug it into!!! Enjoy ! ! ### ⭐ where is the super duper sound of Pono? *by F***L on October 3, 2015* I don't have a special headset and except the music given with the Pono, I don't have high quality music and I don't hear the super beautiful sound of Pono --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sk/products/14745835-pono-music-portable-music-player-black](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/14745835-pono-music-portable-music-player-black) --- *Product available on Desertcart Slovakia* *Store origin: SK* *Last updated: 2026-08-13*