AGPTEK A01T 8GB Bluetooth MP3 Player Touch Button with FM/Voice Rocord, Lossless Sound Metal Music Player with Independent Lock, 1.8 Inch TFT Screen, (Support up to 128GB),Black

I hate to start with a caveat, but feel I must, since I fell victim to it myself.There are two models of this device, sold from the same Amazon page. The A01S, and the A01T. They look identical, but they are not. The S model lacks Bluetooth, has 16Gb internal memory, and comes without earbuds. The T model has Bluetooth, 8Gb of internal memory, and comes with buds. (Your guess is as good as mine, why the Bluetooth model has less memory...) I wanted it for the Bluetooth, but initially got the wrong model and had to send it back for an exchange.Make SURE you know which model you've ordered! This is partly on Amazon, for not having separate pages, I think.There should really be a multi-tiered rating system for multi-function devices like this one.Here's how I would break it down:Build * * * * *Sound * * * * *Features * * *Interface * *Ease of operation * * *Which is overall about a 3-1/2 star rating.The good:* Very solidly built, all metal case; nice heft and hand-feel; few mechanical buttons or other doo-dads to break.* I found the display adequate for the intended task* All controls did what they were supposed to, once I figured out what that was (see below)* The sound is excellent, both through wired buds, and Bluetooth headsets. Plenty of volume and plenty of bass to suit me.* Plays multiple audio formats without issue* Good battery life -- once fully charged I got 24 hours out of it, with no complaints.* loading files is easy -- computer sees this as basically a flash drive, and you just drag-and-drop* 128Gb micro SD card support provides plenty of capacity.* includes extras: voice recorder; radio; photo viewer; video viewerAnnoyances:* Video only supports some weird "AMV" format that no video I have came in. NBD, since I wasn't planning on watching video on a 1" screen, anyway.* The button to start voice recording is located on the side of the device, pretty much exactly where you would grab it to pick it up, if you didn't want to cover the display. Say what? Two out of every three times I pick this thing up, I end up accidentally starting the voice recorder. These buttons should either be recessed, on the front panel, or at the \top\ of the side panel.* No AM radio; FM only. Not good if you're a fan of sports or talk radio.* Menus are tedious, with multiple steps required for many functions that shouldn't require more than one or two button-pushes (like setting up an FM pre-set, each one of which requires six button pushes)* content on the device is not integrated with content on the SD card in the interface -- it's like you're looking at content on two separate devices, except you can only view one at a time.The bad:* Controls have multiple functions which are neither obvious, nor explained in the manual.* The "manual" is pretty much useless -- looks more like it was written for a generic device, than specifically for this one, and it's only a few pages long anyway* Display only allows for 21 characters is song titles, even with scrolling. Give the way a lot of MP3 material is labeled, this is problematic. For example, the first movement of Beethoven's first symphony is typically titled is:Ludwig von Beethoven--Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21, I. Adagio molto--Allegro con brioOn this device, this gets reduced to "Ludwig von Beethoven-"Moreover, all four movements of the symphony will have the same title. Worse, Beethoven wrote nine symphonies: every movement of every symphony -- 37 movements in all -- will appear on this device with exactly the same truncated title.Makes it a little hard to find a particular piece or movement.* the real fall-down in the interface is the way songs are organized; basically, they aren't- Songs aren't grouped into albums; just one long list for the device and another long list for the SD card- Only three internal playlists are supported- even these minimal organizational concessions go away when Bluetooth is activated.A note on playlists:The above problem could be mitigated if the device featured robust playlist support; alas, it does not. Playlists other than the three internally allowed must be created on a computer and ported over separately; you can't create them directly on the device. The software widely recommended to do this is "Media Go"; I tried it.You can indeed create multiple external playlists and copy them on to the device. The problem is that copying the playlist \also\ makes a new copy of every file \in\ the playlist, \onto\ the device. If you have a tune already on the device, and you include it in two playlists (outside of the three provided with the device), then as far as I can tell, the file for that tune will exist on the device three times. This represents a HUGE waste of memory, not to mention a hugely inefficient way to run a playlist, which should ideally contain nothing but a list of pointers to files \already on\ the device.I don't know whether this is a foible of Media Go. or of the device itself, but whichever it is, it seems idiotic.The bottom line here is, if you put a lot of tunes on the device (I have over 3000), good luck finding the one you want, when you want it.In my opinion, if they were only going to improve one thing about this device, it should be to devise a simple way to allow the creation of an unlimited number of playlists on the device itself. That would be a huge step in the direction of organization, Next to that, I'd say, make the interface less clunky -- but even that I could live with, if I could easily organize my songs into 30-50 playlists.As it stands, I'd probably recommend this player for kids 12 or younger, because a) it seems very durable; and b) that age group isn't likely to put huge song libraries on the thing, so organization will be less of an issue for them.

I own literally scores of MP3 players, starting with the Eigerman and Diamond Rio and up through various Creative Labs, Microsoft Zune, iPods, Sony and FIio devices. This device is better than many, and surely recommended at the price point, but there are issues.Pros:It plays everything I tossed at it. MP3, VBR MP3, FLAC, OGG, WMA, WAVIt is a solid feeling player and comes with its own case.Battery life is good, although higher bit rate files will shorten the battery life. I ran it for 24 hours with a loop of MP3 files and it was still at 25% battery life.Ability to handle a 128 gb memory card is impressive. I tested a Sandisk Class 10 and it worked perfectly.Bluetooth SOUND functions well, although a bit clumsy to set up.Playlist function is great but does not work with Bluetooth.Computer interface to drag and drop files is easy to use and works. See picture.Cons:The screen is a bit dull and not as sharp as other players.The interface is AWFUL. It uses four arrows (L, R, U, D) and the "OK" button is on the top right, not in the center. Moving through the menu system is tedious.While Bluetooth sounds good, once you choose to use Bluetooth, you are moved into a different dimension and LOSE a lot of the functionality of the player. Instead of using the MUSIC player and the functions offered by it, you are stuck in an arcane menu system that allows you to simply choose music files to play, and that is all - no playlists or other functionality of the music player is offered,Bluetooth routinely drops - the first time I used it I heard my headset announce connected and while the player was in my hands, two feet from the headset, the player announced it was disconnected.The local (internal) music files and the files on an SD card are not integrated.While the function of the radio is a nice idea, it appears that the headphones are the antenna, so when using Bluetooth there is no radio (and you can't get to the radio anyway while connected to Bluetooth.Overall, the player is well built physically, but the interface is awful. While the sound is good and it plays loads of file formats, the interface is very frustrating and makes little sense. If you are buying it for the Bluetooth functionality, be aware that this comes at the cost of the standard music player functions (like a playlist).

I purchased the Agptek A01T MP3 player after researching various options and reading a lot of reviews (thus the submission of my review for the product). I was looking for the following features in an MP3 player:- An MP3 player that could connect to any sound system with an aux input. Note: my car has an inbuilt music player that can play MP3s from USB sticks which is very convenient and what I had used up until this point, but I am hiring a car for an upcoming road trip and it only has an aux input for playing music - I wanted a backup for when I have no mobile reception and cannot stream Spotify on my phone (which is my current preferred method of listening to music, but I run out of space to have enough songs backed up to play off-line and the mobile battery never lasts long enough for playing music and using all the other phone features like camera, social media etc that you would on a road trip)- An MP3 big enough to hold the majority of my music all in one place, with expansion capabilities (I like the idea of being able to use multiple SD cards if my music library gets too big)- A non-Apple product – I have always preferred a music player that is basically a mini hdd and didn’t tie down your music to the apple software.- Sound quality was not a huge draw card as this is just a back up for camping trips and place outside of mobile reception where spotify and charging stations are not available- A long lasting battery – again because of my intended use in remote areas- InexpensiveI narrowed down my search to a couple of products:- AGPTEK A01T 8GB Bluetooth MP3 Player- FiiO X1 MP3 Player: I eventually had to remove this from my list as there were limited availability options for this product in Australia; I was also concerned with reviews noting that navigation through files took a lot of time and the scroll wheel was prone to breakage after only a year, and a shorter battery life- Sony NWE395: this was quickly removed from my list as there were no expansion capabilitiesI bought a 64MB Sandisk microSD card and put this into the player. So far I have been transferring some music and playing music in the car via the Aux cable. Setting up the player was easy enough to begin with and I could transfer multiple ‘Artist’ folders with multiple Albums at a time. I set up an alphabetic folder system for ease of accessing songs (A-B, C-E, etc). As the Artist folder numbers reached approx. 300 (I’m not sure of exact numbers), a lot of errors came up when I tried to transfer. I now have a few folders that are visible in the MP3 player screen, but completely invisible on the computer screen so I am unable to delete or modify these (assuming they would disappear if I formatted everything, but it has been a fair bit of work setting everything up so far and I don’t want to start again from scratch). I have found that I now have to transfer only one folder at a time, disconnect the player from the computer, wait about a minute for the player to go through ‘searching…’ mode and the plug it back in to transfer the next folder- this seems to have fixed the transfer & display problems, but is extremely tedious with the amount of music I want to transfer. This should only be an initial setup problem, as once all my current music has been transferred, I will only be loading one album at a time.Navigating the menus and my folder setup is easy enough.The sound quality is ok, not great. I still haven’t figured out how to adjust the volume on the player itself (but in saying that I haven’t read the manual yet).I have not downloaded and installed any firmware updates (I didn’t find any when I first started using the player and then the other links in the Agptek blog look a little suspicious to me (files not found etc- similar to the player now that I think of it) so I haven’t bothered downloading them.From what I can tell so far, it looks like the player will meet my basic needs (I am not sure on the battery life yet as I haven’t had a chance for an extended use).I purchased the player through Linking Port-AU and they were very friendly and helpful and kept me well updated on the status of delivery- I would definitely buy from them again.

Después de casi 3 años de uso sigue teniendo un buen sonido y una buena conexión Bluetooth, soporta caídas, derrames de agua y puede usarse por largos periodos de tiempo como si fuera el primer día, por el precio sin duda vale la pena.

Got one of these to replace my aging Sony player. The quality of the physical product is good, and it does have a fantastic battery life (one charge per week on average for me), however there are some issues that stick with me that keep having me return to my old Sony.For one, the 'conveniently placed' record audio button is too convenient for a function I literally never use ever. It's an outward jutting button right beside the power button, and is super easy to press when just trying to pull it out of your pocket to change the songs. I don't mind the feature, but it could be an in-menu function or something instead,Second, and this is the real thorn in my side, is that you cannot skip-search or search alphabetically for your songs. The songs are listed alphabetically, but if I want to listen to something that starts with P or O I have to scroll ALL the way down from the top, then scroll all the way back because the cursor memorizes the last song chosen.

The A01T - A good basic mp3 player. Choose A02 over the A01T I use a dedicated mp3 player for audiobooks and playlist sup;port would have been a boon. .The AGPTEK forum has a post on how to add a m3u playlist to thir player: AGPTEK Player models that use M3U playlist A02, A02S, A29T, B03, M07, M19, M20, M28, M29, G05S, G15, G12, R1S, ROCKER. The A01T is not in the list and reads a list as empty.. Not supporting playlists, the A01T reads the file name of each mp3 file which means it will not play files in order. The simplest solution is to add a nunber to the beginning of the file name with a tag editor You can use Album to sort seperate files of an audiobook

For the price its not a bad MP3 player, being a chinese product, the programming and UI isnt the best but if your looking for a simple no-nonsense mp3 player that has bluetooth, then its worth it. One thing to note if you want the best sound youll have to tweak the EQ. Oh and i gave it 3 starts for material in terms of the software within it, the physical build quality is pretty good, i dropped a weight on the back panel when i was at the gym, only left a little chip and large scar.