SnowSky/FiiO Echo Mini HiFi Bluetooth MP3 Player, 15Hours Playback, Independent Volume Control with 3.5mm/4.4mm Headphones Outputs (Pink)

I'm absolutely in love with this charming little audio player! I love the retro design and the sound quality is fantastic for the price. This is a great product for audiophiles on a budget.It's relatively user friendly and intuitive, but it could have come with more detailed instructions. For example, it took me a while to figure out that I had to manually update the library when adding new songs to the SD card. Not a huge issue and overall definitely a product I'd recommend.

The media could not be loaded. In a world were we've been herded into an all in one smartphone based system, this little guy is a breath of fresh air.It's like going back to the early 00s when your MP3s came from a stack of CDs you'd ripped or infected the family PC with stuff you'd found on Limewire. You didn't need subscriptions, data, or a wifi connection Local content was were it was at.Things have changed a bit since them, mainly Audio Quality and file size. the 8GB this thing comes with is great, you can store a bunch of music or books on there, but you can also slip a micro sd card into it (up to 256gb) to literally carry WEEKS of listening. For something incredibly small and light (it's about as large and heavy as a box of matches) it runs for a good 12+ hours. SnowSky claim 15 hours of playback but this is likely with low screen brightness etc. so in the real world you'll probably charge this maybe once a week with a couple of hours a day listening time- ideal if you're commuting.To use you've got buttons and menus- like I said, back to the 00s, so no touch screen. They aren't simple menus either, they're nested and you have to go down a few levels to get into some option lists and functions like the EQ settings. Even a month or so on I'm still having to think about what I'm doing and not able to get by on memory yet. The more complicated functionality might be a deal breaker for some but I'm loving the more mindful experience and the tactile feedback from the buttons.It's easy to load up with audio and supports may file formats inc the new gold standard FLAC. it's literally drag and drop from your PC. This is how you set your playlists up too, you just group tracks into a folder and transfer the folder to the Echo Mini- it doesn't support playlists transferred from your PC annoyingly, I'm hoping some day a FW update will fix this, but until then grouping tracks in a 'playlist folder' and is the best workable solution.Ive also just discovered it will display the song lyrics when the appropriate LRC file is in the same folder as the source tracks which is pretty cool!The screen is so-so. In bright sunlight it can be difficult to read even on the highest brightness setting despite the fiddlyness I love this thing and cant get over how little it cost compares to other DAPs on the market.As a final thought I would highly recommend hunting down one of the official cases for it, it adds a really premium feel to the DAP and makes if a million times more robust. I don't worry about this clattering around in my pocket or bag now.

Very nice but interface could be simplified.

Really great compact mp3 player, Bluetooth compatible and I've expanded mine to 256mb. Controls are really good, but the order of the albums is a bit odd, but that's a minor issue, I can easily navigate to what I want!

I love the look of this and it feels good too,but navigating gets tedious when looking for a song or artist.You can't make playlists without using a laptop or PC.

Pretty good sound quality on my Beyerdynamic T1s, enough juice to drive them. Very clunky and slow UI experience. Every so often after a power off - has to totally rescan the SD card and forgets what tune was playing. Sometimes takes 3 secs from pressing Play to actually starting playback. This is really poor MCU work - I've written MP3/FLAC/WAV playback systems on a MCUs with SDIO cards. I think it's using SD card spi mode - running CPU really slow and the streaming system is awful - who wrote this - it's terrible! (There's no real technical reason to scan the SD card at all - just poor coding).

Fed up of subscription? Deffo go this route. Snowsky is a decent size, great sound quality and a nice design throwback. It would be cooler if it was mental but the plastic build quality is still good enough

Nice file compatibility for the price, the balanced output option is nice. Absolutely horrible clunky controls and menu navigation. Even turning the volume up and down is a pain. There was a software update that allows for track scrubbing which is nice though.