A02X Black

This is a great inexpensive MP3 player! I was looking for a wireless MP3 player to use with Bluetooth earbuds at the gym to replace my ancient iPod nano and wired headphones. I also own a non-Bluetooth version A02S. This player is labeled A02XT on the back, and appears to be a newer version of the model as it had several additional side buttons which do not show in the pictures on the Amazon webpage nor on AGPTEK's website. There are now Volume Up and Volume down buttons on one side, and a Back button on the other side in addition to the 5 buttons shown on the front. These make changing volume and going back one screen so much easier and intuitive than with the prior A02 player on which you needed to manipulate several buttons on the front to go Back one screen or change volume. Bluetooth setup was very easy and haven't had any random disconnects. Sound quality is excellent. Be aware that the volume maxes out when using Bluetooth at a medium loud level, not super loud. You can copy songs from an iTunes playlist to this player, and have it play in the same order by doing a copy and paste (not drag & drop) of songs in the iTunes playlist into one of the Playlists in the folder on the MP3 player which can be seen in the Finder. If you select that Playlist to play songs on the MP3 player, the songs will play in exactly the same order as in your iTunes playlist with no change in sequence. It does take some time to transfer songs from your computer to the MP3 player especially you try to fill all 32GBs with songs. I did cause the player to freeze up when I erroneously pressed the Back and Vol down buttons together. To unfreeze, hold Play/Pause button about 10 seconds, screen goes off, then powers on, and all is good, no loss of files. I haven't tried any of the other capabilities (voice recordings, photos, etc) but I only purchased the player to play songs, and it does this perfectly.

Ive been using it at work It lasts all day if youre someone who turns it on and off alot. Its bluetooth isnt to bad its got great range but some devices it wont recognize (like certain speakers) its very compact so its almost never gonna be in your way. the black shell is kinda smooth so if you got like soft hands it could move a bit. The speaker isnt the best,but if you just want to play music quietly its okay. The sd card slot you kinda gotta fight with it push it in.other than that 9/10

Works great. I transfered(drag and drop) all my iTunes files to it after converting them to mp3 format with iTunes and it works perfectly. With the buttons you can look at songs by artist, title, genre or album. The quality seems great, and, after having it two days, can't believe how easy it is to use. After the initial charging I've used it for probably 13 hours and have only had it plugged in and charging to transfer songs. Surprisingly the battery indicator still looks full. I was also surprised how well the radio tuner worked with this. It uses your headphone wires as the antenna. The cheap thin wired ear buds that came with it only found about 6 stations when using scanning feature for stations. But when using my laptop headphones I bought for $12 that had slightly thicker wire it picked up 14 stations. My favorite station wasn't detected so I manually tuned to it and it sounded fine. My guess is that the signal must not be quite strong enough for the scanner to accept. I even walked around listening to this station inside and outside and only had a few times when it sounded bad. Sometimes it had very minimal static I could only hear when there wasn't anything being broadcast(ie between songs). Most of the time I have no noticeable static at all with this station however, even between songs. The scanner saves all stations it accepts to presets you can scroll through so you don't have to scan or manually tune every time you want to change stations. You can also save manually tuned stations to a preset. This radio is very handy if you get tired of listening to your mp3s. It would also come in handy in cases of emergencies. The only drawback I can think of is it's only good for FM no AM capability on this player. I also read on the box where this player comes with a 12 month warranty. UPDATE 11/2/2015 I tried creating a play-list with the media monkey software, the device manual doesn't tell you how to get songs in to media monkey, create a play-list with it, or anything else other than how to get the play-list on your player. So once I put some play-lists on the player I noticed media monkey created folders for every album, If I remember right, and put a COPY of every song on my player it to its directory. The problem is when you use the player to list your songs and play them it has two copies of each song. A minor problem as the songs I put on the player could be easily deleted. This fixed that problem. Then I bought some more songs and added them to my player. Figured out how to import them to media monkey, and created new play-lists. But when I synced them to the player the was a major error and a whole bunch of songs were deleted from the player. This isn't a play-list problem, bunches of the songs were actually gone from the player that I had put on just days before. So I deleted everything in the directory, my new songs and the ones media monkey created directories for and added all my mp3's back on to the player, imported to media monkey, created new play-lists and synced. Media monkey made copies in directories I deleted the originals, and problem solved. This might be avoided if you just import from your mp3 directory on your computer and then sync but I don't know. But then I noticed that Media Monkey left 10 songs off the play-list. I had 186 songs in the play-list in the software but on the player I only had 176. I noticed a few of the missing songs had a ) right before the .mp3. So in searching the Internet I found someone else also had the problem using the software to put play-lists on his android device. He noticed other characters at the end of the song name causing the problem as well. He said he managed to get a bunch of his songs back on to the play-list by using media monkey to rename his songs with the bit rate at the end, but he was still missing some. His post was old and media monkey may have been updated since then, as he was missing far more then the 10 I was. His solution might fix the problem entirely now, but, I don't know as I haven't felt like trying to figure out how to get the software to rename my songs. So I am docking my review one star for all the problems I've had and for the manual not explaining how to use media monkey.

I bought two by this brand the AGPTEK A02 and the AGBPTEK Touch and I returned both because they equally sucked and ended up frying my brand new SD card. I really liked the look of the touch but I also wanted something with physical buttons that I wouldn't have to look at to skip through songs, but they were both just absolutely terrible. They use the same interface and the sound quality on both was abysmal. When I tried the first device in my car it was so awful I was terrified my speakers got blown out or something because when I tried the second device it was the same - the bass was so buzzy you couldn't understand anything - tested with the same song on both - then I tried my phone bluetooth (again, same song) and it was just fine. I tried them on my earbuds, same issue. I tried adjusting the sound style on the devices and it didn't really make a difference, the only way to listen to either one bearably was to basically adjust the bass on my car settings so low it was practically off and at that level what's the point of listening to music. The speakers on both units were also horrid quality, which didn't matter because I wasn't planning on listening to music on the actual device anyway, but if I had wanted to use it as a backup they aren't worth having as a feature. I checked the SD card on my computer and the songs played fine so it wasn't anything to do with the song quality or the SD card, I was in a crunch about to leave for a road trip and decided to take both of them anyway since it's really what I bought it for, but that turned out to be a mistake. About an hour in while trying to change songs from one playlist to another on the external card as it was playing on the device it froze up and restarted. When it booted back up it was back on the same track and it wouldn't let me go forward/back/switch to anything else it just kept freezing and restarting. I tried the SD card on the other device and it said card not found. Ended up just breaking down and paying for ANOTHER month of Spotify just to get through my trip, which is what I was trying to avoid in the first place. When I got home I plugged the SD card into my computer and it said it was corrupted, so somehow the player fried my brand new card that I literally just bought to use with it.

I got this as a replacement for my daughter for another MP3 player (different model) that stopped working suddenly. This one worked great and as expected (UI is a little odd, but nothing that couldn't be learned). The bigger problem is that my daughter is 8 and not the most careful. I went to update the music on the storage when I realized that the buttons weren't working well and I can't connect to the computer anymore to upload/modify the music on the device. Upon closer inspection it appears that the chasis broke (likely sat on or pushed up against something) but this made me more clearly see that the outside is a bit more fragile than I would have liked. A case may have prevented this (that one is on me) but I generally wished this was a bit more durable on it's own. Overall, if you're careful this player works as described. A more durable chassis and more intuitive UI would give this 5 stars for me.

I'm starting to try to move away from streaming and back towards physical media and one of the first things I wanted to step away from was Spotify. I browsed around quite a bit and saw this little MP3 player highly recommended time and again and at $30 I figured I'd give it a shot. When it arrived, I was /extremely/ skeptical because it's so lightweight, I was worried it was going to fall apart at the slightest breeze. However, I've been really pleased with it so far! Setup was really easy and moving music on and off is incredibly simple. The playlist feature is still getting the best of me but I'm not too worried about that yet. It was simple enough to connect my wireless earbuds and there hasn't been any sort of connection issue. I also can get it to connect to the bluetooth in my car even though it says that shouldn't be possible which is a great bonus since I can still use the hands-free volume and change song features! Another bonus I just figured out today is that there's a built in speaker. I only skimmed the manual so I didn't realize until the music started playing before my headphones had a chance to connect. I'm not overly concerned with sound quality but the speaker definitely isn't the best, it gets loud but it's fairly tinny, but I didn't expect this feature so I can't complain much and it'll be nice for times when I don't want to wear my headphones for a bit. Overall, I've been thoroughly impressed and I'm very happy with this purchase!

I've had several versions of Agptek since about 12 years ago, when I purchased Agptek A02 (non-bluetooth). Sice then I also bought Agptek A02ST (with bluetooth), and now this one, Agptec A02XT. I also bought Agptek A09X, which I did not like at all, mainly for being too big and too heavy. All of my Agptek A02 models share identical body, and very similar controls and operating system (with minor tweaks). The noticeable improvements from ST to XT version are change from micro USB to USB-C, much more reliable bluetooth connection, and internal memory increased from 16GB to 32GB. I paired 5 different bluetooth headphones and earbuds with it on first attempt, and they all communicate properly with the player to control volume, pause/play/ skip forward or back etc. What I love about Agptek A02 line of products is their small size and light weight (perfect for running and gym), reliability, durability and storage capacity with added external SIMM card. By the way, I stuck a 256GB card full of music in this player, and it read it flawlessly, so the manufacturer's recommendation of up to 128GB is very conservative. All of my music files are in mp3-320kbps format. It can play lossless flac files too, but I see no reason to do it on a portable player of this class. Sound quality is very good, but not HiFi, with some barely audible electronic hiss in the background. I like the controls wheel (it's not a scroll wheel), that you can feel with your fingers, so you can easily operate it in total darkness. And the battery life is absolutely amazing. I find the user interface easy to use, although definitely old school. So, if you are not comfortable with organizing your files in folders, copying them from a PC, and browsing through them, this player may be not for you. In summary, for under $30 (plus whatever you choose to pay for the SIMM card), it is a bargain.

So this is a pretty good mp3 player for the price, and the fact it also has expandable memory. It's got an equalizer which I don't usually see on cheaper mp3 players, head phone jack is in a good place for people who put this in pants pocket, on and off switch doesn't mean wearing out any buttons on the faceplate (I was beginning to kill the buttons on my last one just from frequent use and having to hold the buttons to turn the thing off). I'm literally only using this for mp3s so I don't care about any other features like playlists, podcasts, radio etc. So that said one of my problems is the fact you have to hold the face plate buttons to access volume control, instead of just having dedicated buttons for it on the front or sides. I usually just end up going back to the song selection, since you first have to 'wake up' the device to light the screen from clicking any button, THEN click/hold the button to get to the function you want. I've kinda gotten used to it but volume control I feel like should be dedicated to its own button. My biggest issue though, is that it lists all the mp3s on one singular list if you're accessing all songs, instead of listing them alpha numerically in their own lists (meaning, all songs start with A in their own column, and you can scroll through column A, B, C etc, individually instead of having to scroll through every song that starts with an A to get to songs that start with B...to get to songs that start with C...etc). I like to shuffle but sometimes I want to listen to a particular song, so I have to scroll through 200 songs to get to it, if I just want to listen to that one and let it shuffle through all songs again after. It's easy enough to access them by album or author, but you'll only shuffle through that list afterward and it won't move onto another album/author after that, it'll just play through that list only. I didn't think that having individual alpha numeric columns would be such a non-existent feature for mp3 players but after melting my walkman and trying to save some money tried two different mp3 players (lost the first replacement lol) it's become obvious how frustrating that is. Maybe I just need to figure the thing out more but scrolling through 200+ songs largely in foreign characters that aren't even listed alphanumerically in the master list is like its own circle of hell (I can't figure out if the thing is sorting by file name or the file information as I have songs that start with numbers, letters, and japanese characters peppered one after the other when I know they shouldn't be according to their file info) But hey, if literally all you want is to shuffle, this mp3 player is totally a steal for what you get, and sound quality is more than I would have expected. edit: After having this for awhile, I'm really unhappy with the shuffle function. It 'randomly' gives me the exact same list of songs (even if slightly out of order, but very often in the exact same order) when it shuffles from the song is starts on, which since it becomes locked just from being in my pants pocket, is always the same song so it's always the same list. Trying to find a song on one large master list is still a circle of hell, and I honest to god don't know how the Mp3 player orders things. Like it's picking some as files names, and some as title names, but I still have a master list that looks something like: 1 - a song 2 - another song apple apples 05 - zebras initial d 06 - [foreign character song name] bears I never thought this would be so annoying. Because like I said in the old review, while you can look under artist/album, aside that it clearly doesn't list that information correctly, the device will shuffle ONLY from that album/artist after you pick it from that list...which doesn't work when you have 2 songs from one album, so it will only shuffle those 2 songs until you go back to your master list. I can't believe how much I hate this device for this reason alone, not to mention the joke of a shuffle. Also, this thing has the slowest fast forward/rewind ever. Just imagine only the tiniest bit faster than real time. Anyway, the thing still works with heavy use and holds a really long charge, not sure it's 70 hour playback but even half of that is pretty dang good