KLANGTOP Bluetooth MP3 Player 8GB Digital Clip Music Player with FM Radio Voice Record Function Special Design for Sport and Music Lovers

This is a pretty good MP3 player and I like it. This said, it has a very odd menu system. I bought it for the Bluetooth connection so I could use it with my DDOS V4.0 Bluetooth speaker and it does an excellent job with it. I own a number of Sandisk Sansa Clip MP3 players and while the two models look similar, the menu system on the Sansa is much better and more intuitive to use. The menu system for the Klangtop suffers from a variety of issues: 1. Poorly designed and not intuitive. 2. Spelling and capitalization issues and unusual wording for features. 3. Bluetooth function and playback are strange in that the playback for songs with Bluetooth is different than normal playback for headphones. 4. The provided headphones are not very good. Basically something to toss - fidelity is bad. A good set of quality headphones or earbuds makes this sound much better. 5. The controls suffer from not having an "escape" button (like the Sansa has) to navigate easily back to the appropriate menu.It is VERY clear that the menu system was designed by someone who really doesn't understand efficient menu design and didn't understand English. And given the number of other languages this device supports, it is absolutely my bet that most of the other languages, save for Mandarin Chinese would likely have the same issue. When will China employ or check their language with experts on each language so they get the wording right in their manuals and for the language on these devices? As for the manual - Practically worthless. It missed covering the meanings on the OLED display and much more.The Bluetooth playback also suffered one other issue. - The songs would only play in 10 - 13 second playbacks and skip to the next song until I found that pressing the "Up" button and selecting "Play mode" and "Repeat all" would let the songs play through correctly. This is not an issue with the normal non-Bluetooth playback. It is a REALLY annoying thing and one hopes they would update their firmware to fix this along with the other issues I have pointed out.This player appears to have a number of different brandings based on the same hardware device and the names are... well... strange. "Klangtop"??? Really? In English that means banging two pieces of metal together. Hardly a great name. If these guys named this thing something with a name that makes people thing of something wonderful rather than two pieces of metal banging together they would be ahead of the game. I strongly suggest that these companies that make these get help from outside to help better market and name their products. I plan to paste over the name with something like "Digiclip" - Anything but "Klangtop".For the good - The sound quality is as good as the Sansa. The battery life is amazing and the overall design is well done for the ergonomics. The power switch feels solid and the menu buttons seem like they will last a long time. The back clip is very durable and this is a device that will last a long time despite the low prices. Once you get used to the odd menu system, it is a pretty good little MP3 player. If they choose to fix the issues I've pointed out I would be more than happy to review the improved device.The normal Music playback menu system is the best designed part of the menu system and is similar to the Sansa. It mostly makes sense in the way it is laid out. Very solid and if they ever figure out how to integrate the Bluetooth playback to use this same menu, it would be a real boon to make this device shine. They would do well to add an "escape" button like the Sansa to improve the menu navigation.I like the recording functions - It does record voice from a built-in mic and even records FM. The FM receiver is a little weak on reception in the countryside where I live, but it does work. The player also has a feature the Sansa Clips I own do not - A nice clock with the date/time. The recorder also gives you your choice of formats to record with as well as the quality of the recording. I think this is a really neat feature and it is a big plus for this unit.The "Folder" function is pointless. They would do better to get rid of it. This is an MP3 player. Not a computer. Get rid of it. It doesn't really do anything but duplicate the playback menu.The "E-book" function is REALLY weird. I imported a book in text format and it does display, but the display is WAY too tiny and to read a book on this thing is utterly a pointless exercise. They missed the REAL usefulness of this however - For short notes and things like phone numbers or reminders, this is a perfect use for this function. They would do better to rename this to "Notes" and forget the eBook ideaSo - to conclude - Nice bit of tech. Needs work to make it go from good to excellent. Firmware is the big issue along with a missing escape button to improve the navigation. Solid design and ergonomics. Product names stinks and the company would do well to hire a branding company to name this something that inspires. Even in current form, this is a good player and if you can get past the weird and repetitive functions, it is an excellent buy.

It works well so far. I'm glad that somebody is still producing something vaguely similar to the Sansa Clip+ 8GB. The interface is a bit different but I can get used to it. It is quirky in places but mostly quite intuitive. The battery life seems reasonable. I would recommend it to a friend.----Update 26 April 2018:Still works the same, but some of the design flaws are getting on my nerves.First of all there is no "hold" switch as with the Sansa Clip, you have to press and hold the "menu" button for three seconds. I couldn't figure this out and had to get the information from the Q&As on the product page. I don't like having to press things for a certain amount of time, it is wasteful and it makes me look stupid when I want to turn my music off to talk to someone ("wait for it... wait for it..."). Also it assumes that you're not going to lean against an object for more than three seconds with the device in your pocket - certainly not a correct assumption in my case.When I wake the device up it does not take me to the screen for the current song, I have to navigate the menus to a "now playing" item if I want to, say, pause the song that is playing. When I use the "return" button to see other songs in the same album, I get a list of songs of that album, but I don't know what album it is because pressing "back" doesn't take me to the album I'm looking at. Rather, it takes me to the last album I selected when navigating the music library. As far as I know there is no reliable way to get the name of the album of the currently playing song.If I turn the device off using the switch on the side, it doesn't remember what song was playing. Turning it back on again may take me to the middle of a song that I was listening to a week ago.When a song is playing and I press "back", it doesn't take me to the beginning of the current song, but rather to the beginning of the previous song. When an album finishes playing, the device shows the last song in the album and it is in a paused or stopped state. So when I press "play" again, it plays the last song in the album over again, rather than starting over at the first song like other players would do.I don't mind the funky serif font or the random capitalization in the menu entries, but I wish the more basic functionality of the interface could have been ironed out a little better before releasing this product.----Update 15 May 2018:I'm adding back 1 star because it survived my washing machine.----Update 15 May 2019: (by coincidence!)I just bought another one of these and I see that the firmware has been updated.Now it is possible to play via Bluetooth using the normal Artist/Album/Song menu interface.The clock display has been changed so that the colon blinks, which is annoying to me, unfortunately.The song playback interface is changed, now it shows a lot more information, like 44KHz, 263KBPS. I'm not sure if this is useful to me, but it's a little more polished looking on the whole.Other bugs have not been fixed, for example after playing an album it still stops at the last song. Also it does not remember which song you are playing, if you just turn off the power via the switch on the side, even if it is in "screensaver" mode with the backlight off. You still have to press and hold "play" for three seconds to turn it off in a way that saves the current song and playback position.However, it's great that Bluetooth is now usable. That was the biggest drawback before, and now it has been fixed.I looked at reviews for a number of other similar products and this one still seems to be the best choice for me.

I bought this for my very active 72 year old mom, because she wanted an MP3 that was light and simple to use. She hates complicated electronics. I saw the reviews and thought I'd give this one a shot, and I'm glad I did. It's really small and light (weighs a little less than 4 quarters), but the screen is easy to read and the buttons are big enough to be useful.I loaded about 500 songs on it for her, and it was very easy to load them. I just hooked it up to my laptop, created a folder for "Mom's Music", and copied the songs she wanted to the folder, and then selected all of the files and dragged them to the music folder on the MP3 player. I didn't have any problems at all.I gave it to her, and she called me the next day saying how much she loves this thing. She likes how easy it is to navigate through the menus, and she likes the FM radio too. She easily paired it up to a Bluetooth speaker at her pool and played it all day without needing to recharge it, and got the library to load an ebook on it for her. She was playing around with the voice recorder a little bit, and says it works fine, but she probably won't use that function much. If I was looking for another MP3 player, I'd buy another one of these in a heartbeat!