HIFI WALKERH2 HiFi MP3 Player with Bluetooth 5.2, Lossless DSD FLAC Player, Digital Audio Player Hi Res Portable Music DAP Player with 64GB Micro SD Card, Support Up to 256GB

I am a music addict. Although I have gotten used to streaming music off my phone, I still like owning my own copies of records, CD's and downloads. I was an early user of iPods and loved my 128GB iPod Classic when it came out. The problem was that I did not like iTunes and preferred flac files over MP3 or other formats. I recently went on a long vacation where I did not expect to be able to stream music easily or cheaply, so I planned to bring by old iPod classic with me. However, when I bought a new portable speaker for the trip, I discovered that most such speakers are blue tooth only. They don't have input jacks at all. On a lark, I searched for "blue tooth MP3 players" and up came a whole host of products I never knew existed. After reading multiple reviews, I bought a HiFi Walker H2.I was impressed with the size and the quality of the build. It is small, but feels like is solidly built. After playing around with it for a bit, the controls became fairly intuitive. At first, I was disappointed that I had to scroll through all of my music alphabetically which took forever to get to groups at the end of the alphabet. Then I discovered that if you looking through your music in the "Category" menu, you can simply hit the "M" button and the alphabet will come up on the bottom of the screen. You can then go from A to Z to narrow your artist or album search to the specific letter in the alphabet.Initially, I downloaded my entire music library in MP3 format so it would all fit on a 256GB micro SD card. However, I really wanted to figure out a way to put all my music in flac format on the player. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, I was not able to narrow my flac library down to fit on a 256GB card. On a lark, I bought a 512GB card and downloaded my flac library on to it (about 384GB total). I then popped the card in the player and let it update the library from the new card. Voila! It worked. I now have my entire flac library on the player with plenty of room to add more music.The sound quality is amazing on good headphones (B&W's), and I was blown away the first time I plugged the player into the jack in my car. Wow. It also sounds great on my Bose blue tooth portable speaker and worked great on my extended trip. It sounded okay on a cheap pair of blue tooth ear buds, but I blame that on the ear buds and the fact that I was listening to my MP3 library, not my flac library.The price can't be beat either. Who would have thought that you could buy a better quality, higher memory capacity and iTunes free music player for this price.Nice job. I am a very happy customer.UPDATE: Since loading the 512 GB micro SD Card, I realized something important. The player will recognize and play all of the music on the card in the "Explorer" mode. However, you cannot quickly scroll through the list of folders in this mode. All of the music cannot be seen or played in the "Category" mode. This is the mode that sorts the music by artist, album, song, etc. The Category mode apparently has a ceiling of 15,000 songs. This is the mode that allows you to quickly scroll through the music by letter if you push and hold the Menu ("M") button. I also discovered that when you disconnect the player form a computer, it re-analyzes the library for the Category mode and doesn't always discover and list the same albums. It seems also random which artists/albums it includes in the Category list. Nevertheless, it is still good to know that it will play an entire 512GB card even if it can't/won't categorize all of that music. In reviewing other players like the HiFi Walker touch and the Surfans, it appears they have the same limitations.

Amended/Edited Review, December 2022: after using the H2 for some time, almost all the original issues I identified in my initial review have been resolved with my unit, so I'm giving it an extra star. Metadata scanning just took a while to figure out between auto vs. manual, but works great now. The headphone jack issue (I believe) only seems to affect headphones containing an in-line mic (e.g. 3 level barrel plug); regular stereo headphones seem to work fine.I did a fair amount of research on competitive (2022) MP3 players, I really wanted to like the Hifi-Walker H2; I liked it ok, but for the price, I expected a lot more in terms of quality, stability/consistency, and ease-of-use.After receiving mine, I found a grab-bag of qualities-- some excellent, some merely confusing, some disappointing. First, the good news: the sound quality is extremely good. The build quality and metal case inspires confidence and is very good. OTG via USB C is a good feature, though clumsy in requiring a separate OTG cable not provided. The inclusion of a separate, truely "line-level" 1/8" phono jack output, in addition to the headphone 1/8" phone impedence jack is superlative (if only they worked simultaneously). Next, the "middle" points -- features that are ok but could really be improved: the user interface is 'interesting', with the circular selection wheel, but also very quirky -- e.g unlike any hierarchical scheme, there's no indication when you start rotating the selection/menu wheel, where its going to lead you, or where you'll end up. This is complicated by the mixed metaphor of a 'wheel' (suggesting a flat 1-D menu layout) vs. the "Back' button at lower right, suggesting at least a shallow menu hierarchy. The labelling of a separate "Setting" selection (which should be shown as Music Setting!) vs. System Setting is a bit odd. Oh well. Overall, for a MP3 Player with this cost, look & feel I would expect it to also have a FM radio. And WiFi to stream Spotify or others streaming services,. It does offer Bluetooth, but unfortunately I could almost never get the Bluetooth to actually pair with nearby common BT devices, particularly Sony bluetooth speakers, or any other bluetooth speakers. For the very few BT devices it would pair with, it's range was weak & excessively short (<= 10').I bought this H2 MP3 player mostly to attach as a "fixed, always ready" player (via bluetooth) into my studio Tascam Model 12 hybrid analog/digital mixing console that supports Bluetooth and it does minimally work for that. Luckily, the HiFi Walker H2 did manage to pair with my Tascam Model 12--if it hadn't done that I would have started the return process immediately. When I tested the H2 using its "Line Out" into the Tascam Model 12, I note that using the "Line Out" disables the headphone jack output -- ideally, it would nice to have it output to both the headphone and "Line Out" at the same time. Now for the flat out disappointing points: once I loaded a collection of 50-60 songs on a SanDisk Extreme SDHC 16Gb or 32Gb card, with my MP3's organized by album, artist, genre etc (via the full set of ID3v1,ID3v2 media metadata parameters), I expected the H2 to default to an Auto-Scan, to pick up the SDHC card contents by folder and re-build its indices. No such luck. Under the wheel option "Category" I definitely then expected to find an explicit SCAN NOW option or button. Surprisingly, there is no SCAN NOW option or button, despite the "Setting" option inferring there is one, e.g. allowing one to select "Manual" (whatever that means) vs. "Automatic" (whatever that means); neither setting appeared to work as intended, to perform an active scan of the SDHC media card (here labelled a TF card). Without a SCAN to build the index of a media card's contents by Album, Artist, etc. the wheel option "Category" merely returns "0's" for all the useful categories e.g Artist, Album, Genre, My Favorite, and even "Songs". Only the "Recently Played Songs" category reveals a positive number like 1,2,3 etc. indicating a song played only via manual folder browsing. There is obviously some way to FORCE a "re-scan" of the SDHC media card to re-index it, but I haven't discovered it yet. This is needed to populate the "Category" option's metadata fields like "Album","Artist". Offering an explicit SCAN button for SDHC media shouldn't be a puzzle, it should be clear, up-front, and easy, with the a default behavior that does it automatically like my old cheap Ruizo and every other MP3 player does. Next issue: the player symbology for the "Play" vs "Pause|Stop" seemed backwards to me; when you press the Play ">" symbol, the music player shows a ">" Play symbol when it is already playing a song. When a song is playing, I expected it to display a "||" symbol, since it is already in the act of playing a song, the only logical other action is to Pause the action, not press "Play" or ">" symbol which it is *already" doing. That's a minor logic bug you can get used to.Next: when a song is playing, a small set of vertically oriented sub-options appears on the right margin, and is obscured if an album cover image is underneath it. The interface offers really no indication at all how to navigate to or operate this tiny, vertical set of options. Experimenting reveals the tiny physical "M" button accesses these sub-options, sort of. Once you stumble onto the sub-menu items (Heart symbol for favorites, ">>", "<<" etc, you have to guess that the main wheel is the way you move up & down between them; Again, it works, sort of, but since the iconography and scrolling text is so tiny, due to the overly small non-touch screen, its much more of a chore than expected; a bigger screen would definitely help. Last, the flaky output jacks. Using the headphone jack and Line Out jack was initially frustrating, as these appear very sensitive or fragile for connections, emitted only one side like "mono", and didn't work consistently with several of my high-quality standard 1/8" phono jack cables, studio headphones, and earbuds; I eventually got some to work, but this was NOT a confidence builder, and almost inspired me to return the H2 player immediately, as getting a good headphone (or line out) 1/8" jack to work consistently should be a no-brainer; I finally got it to work in stereo by jiggling it,noting that slight movements caused it to go "mono" again.OVERALL IMPRESSION: See updated review comments at top. Picking up the HiFi Walker H2, you feel its heft and quality and you will like it compared to most others. It has the potential to be a very good MP3 player with some refinements. The interface design could definitely use improvement, as noted above. In my opinion, without a more stable Bluetooth, FM radio, and lack of Wifi, I think its overpriced as it is now. I do enjoy its superlative sound quality.