OAKCASTLE MP100 8GB Bluetooth MP3 Player | Portable Music Player & Headphone Connectivity | FM Radio & Micro SD Slot

After a couple of no brand MP3 players iving up the ghost I decided to try this. It would appear to be a U.K. company, although the device is made in China, who should hopefully stand by their product.Small and discreet and although plastic an acceptable build quality. Easy transfer of music files from Win. Media Player and it recognised an existing music preloaded 16Gb sd card.The operation is straightforward and the same as my previous failed devices. The only difference is they were touch and this is "buttons".Bluetooth connected, without problems, to my wireless earbuds and remains stable. The included wired earbuds are not too bad, quite a useful inclusion though. I will not be using them.Sound quality is very good. Music may be "tweaked", using the equaliser, to cater for type, if required.Although not a major criticisms, 8Gb is not really enough internal memory. The rear mounted clip should be removable. Their, hopefully good, extended warranty is worthwhile if any problems are encountered.There was a discount voucher when I purchased which makes it even better value for money.

I ordered this item a few weeks back after hunting around for a cheap and lightweight music player with decent storage as an alternative to my iphone which never has enough storage for music.Thus far very pleased with this wee player.First of all, it is tiny and very light... much smaller than the impression given by the picture. Device is matchbox size, and I was a bit underwhelmed by the teeny bit of plastic I unwrapped for the £20 odd quid spent.However, for the price point, 8GB of storage (expandable by microSD) is great value. Menu system is easy, I am only using for music and have no plans to look at photos or files on this tiny machine. Uploading files is simply drag and drop, as you would on a USB flash drive, and provided your ID3 info on files is correct, the device will organise by album, artist etc. I have not attempted to build my own playlists yet.Most importantly I feel, other FAQs mention compatibility with m4a Apple music files. The seller says no, but m4a is just Apple's file wrapper for AAC-LC files. This does play AAC-LC, and so all the m4a files I dropped in were recognised and play perfectly, which is good, as I ripped quite a bit through itunes AAC back in the day, and the format sounds more naturalistic to me than mp3 unless the bitrate is very high.Battery life is great (I use wired headphones, so can't compare wireless buds), and sound quality is fine, in my view, this is more an issue of bitrate encoded and decent earbuds rather than a device issue at this entry level.Pretty happy!

Tried loads of these, owned others, three of the touchscreen options out there on amazon, this oakcastle is easily the best, this is the smallest little thing, absolutely tiny, but works great, a proper click to buttons, you know when you've pressed a button, seems obvious to say, but you need to know when you have pressed a button (or not) when playing music, the touchscreen models are too temperamental for this, there is no confidence when pressing buttons on the touchscreen models, but the oakcastle gives you that physical confidence (knowing that a click means an action is performed & completed) - a click suffices nicely.The playlist option is just great, very easy to do.The display is brilliant, much better than an album cover (imo) the display is a graphic equaliser moving image with song info also on screen.I have got over 800 320 kbps large file size music on this so far and still plenty of GB room left.Added a 64gb card fr a tenner into this machine so now will store loads and loads.In ear sound quality - brilliant, very clear, can hear music notes in this that were absent on other (soft touch screen options here on amazon.)Playing out loud: Perfect - especially with soundmotion boom I have. Would work great with JBL, Sony, W-king, Bose and other quality bluetooth speakers out there too.Works in car too, I have it plugged in to a male to male aux lead.This is the best and most dinky of all the mp3/bluetooth transmitters that I've tried here on the net.(which is a fair old few) Highly recommend this tiny, honest and great performing little gizmo for bluetooth speakers.

Costing £19.98 with a discount and £5 voucher ( promotional for the bank holiday I think) I was very pleased with this player.Before I start I should state that I have congenital hearing loss so my hearing isn't the best - perhaps someone with perfect hearing may think the sound quality isn't that great, but Im very happy with it - also with the volume - it goes loud enough for me to be able to hear clearly and enjoy both music and spoken word.Sound is clear ( delivered through my Panasonic RP-HT7X headphones)The controls take a little bit of getting used to being dark grey on black they are not the easiest to see in low light. The display is good - not sure I would want to read a book on it, but it is offered as an option, as is watching video files.Ive loaded mine up with a 64 GB TF card with a mix of folders with spoken word and music. I have not yet got around to creating playlists but as I tend to put "mixes" into folders its probably something I wouldnt bother with anyway.Battery life seems quite good - 5 hours including some fiddling about with the player and the display being on a lot. The FM radio has quite poor reception indoors, but good outdoors. YMMV on this of course. I cant really see me using the pedometer, nor the record function as it only records from an in built microphone not from the radio.Im pleased that for sub £20 it plays a variety of music formats including FLAC, so many of my archived files I dont have to convert ( though FLAC does take up more memory space than MP3).Overall quite a nice little MP3 player for the money. Apparently comes with a 3 year guarantee too.