64GB MP3 Player with Bluetooth 5.3, joliker Portable HiFi Sound Music Player, 2.4IN Full Touchscreen, Built-in HD Speaker, FM Radio, Voice Recorder, E-Book, Earphones Included, Max up to 128GB TF Card

My mum is in her 60s, she a smartphone but is never gonna be fully into it.But a pure MP3 player loaded with her favourite 60s-80s bands, paired to a cute little portable BT speaker? She brings it everywhere and listens to music lots again. And it has photos of her pets. Sometimes simple is great.

Having used a variety of MP3 players over the years, mainly for radio and spoken word recordings, even back to those which incorporated a USB plug, I've found issues common to many of these. The clips invariably fail, and even where a lock button is provided, it doesn't actually lock, and forwarding/'rewinding' through a large file - after having accidentally skipped on/back one or more files because of the ****** lock or lack thereof - takes forever. (After the fourth time on the same file it becomes something of a pain). Hence, I was keen to find something a little more useable.Some of the recent clip players have added bookmarking (remembering where you were in a particular file before your knee somehow forwarded you on several files whilst you were squatting down weeding your allotment), plus increased battery life, as well as moving on to USB-C ports (but still on USB 2 transfer speeds). And Bluetooth, of course. (How quaint my old Rockboxed Sansa Clip seems now). It's not apparent from product descriptions and reviews as to which offers what at this sort of feature level, however. It also seems to be universal that when you plug such a player into your computer and select file transfer it pretty well mucks up its memory of where you were in that big, big file you shouldn't have started without charging the player first (Unless you selected the charge only option in time). Oh joy, another 20 minutes holding down the (WT)FF button.So, being in need of a new player. I thought I would give one of the current crop of BT5-equipped, touch screen players a whirl. These all seem pretty similar and the Joliker option was reduced and a little cheaper than the rest. The blue colour made a change from the black I've pretty much stuck with since I lost my more colourful Sansa Clip Zips.One potential negative is that although there is a website for Jolike, Joliker only seems to be found in connection with products available via Amazon. I guess we'll cross that support bridge if/when we come to it.Sound reproduction through something other than the provided headphones (or, heaven forefend, the built-in speaker) is actually quite good and I'm not going to waste time on a pointless comparison of whether music has a better soundstage and is more revealing and enjoyable via a Fiio DAC and better headphones. Lossless audio file playback is limited to 48kHz but the player copes with 96kHz files without a problem. The purpose of this review is mainly to highlight the following...Battery life is great - Much more than a day through wired headphones although I expect this will be true of the alternatives too.Bluetooth connects easily and stays connected. Because (presumably) of the new line-in (and out) feature that seems standard to this player's ilk, you can connect to and play music over your BT headphones/speakers whilst still outputting to your wired speakers or your PC. (The headphone volume seems to surge a bit as BT connection is made). The tinny built-in speaker (thankfully) cuts off when the device connects to a BT output. The player seems to be able to memorise pairings with multiple devices and it appears to be easy to move between these. Connecting to your PC whilst playing will disconnect a bluetooth device but you can connect whilst the player is plugged in (BT stays connected when the player is unplugged)The player has the ability to set bookmarks (which, consistent with my experience of other players) seems to be for the file to which you are currently listening only. You can't leap straight from that audiobook to the Pentangle album you were part way through and back again via some central bookmarks library. However, you can have a quick listen to the radio and then go back to wherever you were in the last played audio file.[And in a related gripe, aimed at all all basic mp3 players, it's something of a shame that you can't turn on automatic bookmarking (or similar) that would let you step through a a file in 5 or 10% chunks of its length.]The player is generally pretty good on the usability front (although MP3 players as a whole could stand some improvement). A long press on the power button turns it on/off. a short press turns the screen on/off and serves as a lock/unlock for all the other functions apart from the volume rocker switch.The volume (via headphones) can go to uncomfortably loud levels (although you can set a limiter) but what's really useful here is that there is a lot of fine control, e.g. should you want to fall asleep whilst listening and not be caught between something that's a bit too loud or so quiet that you end up straining to hear.What's not so good on the sound control front is that the volume indicator comprises a very thin line, where what I assume is a dark blue s difficult to see. Whilst you'll generally be judging the volume by ear and not even bothering to turn the screen on, this seems to be a phenomenally daft failing.It's worth noting that when the player starts playing a file after being powered up, this seems to be at a moderate level before it adjusts to what ever the setting is.The player takes being plugged into a computer for charging/file transfer in its stride, whether ot not it was playing at the time and doesn't lose track of wherever you were in the file.Bookmarking is available but (general mp3 player comment) wit ould be much more useable if there was a 'bookmark here' icon on the 'File now playing' screen.The touch screen is pretty responsive and one of the key things is that you can jump a large chunk forwards or back through a file by tapping on the progress. My loud 'Huzzah!' is somewhat reduced by the fact that with a 2" screen, fat fingers aren't ideally suited to pin-point relocation. Secondly, the player isn't that speedy when it come to moving to the new location. Unforewarned, you're like to think 'Hmm, this isn't working' and give the screen another tap or seven in encouragement. It sighs as it seems to register each of these in turn and gradually works its way through to the last one. However, once you learn to allow it to do its thing in its own time, it's a darn sight faster than relying solely on REW/FF functions. That said it would be great if such functionality also included 2x, 3x and 5x speeds.Although the whole screen seems to be touch sensitive, it isn't generally put to best use and the icons for functions such as the graphic equalizer are also very close to the progress bar (Remember those fat fingers). A big progress ring would be better.A quantity of unnecessary screen tapping/swiping could be avoided if all screens provided a 'Go to Home screen' option.Whilst it is possible to use the touch screen to move between auto-tuned stations in radio mode, use the tuning button icons or to leap around the waveband, the automatic station tuning (Select Common Band for region) is somewhat iffy and likely to result in lots or 'stations' that need to be deleted from the list. You can't rename these. The tuning isn't helped by the use of the supplied headphones as the antenna - something a bit thicker seems to help. Oh, and if you manually adjust the tuning for Station 27 and then use the up/dowm station buttons to go to Station 26 or 28, you'll find yourself dumped back at Station 01.Overall, the radio is OK once set up and being able to record from it is a plus (Timed recording would be a nice bonus given the other alarm capabilities) but much will depend on the signal. Note that displaying/using the touch screen causes noise on the radio output. I don't know whether this affects recordings.A brief user guide is supplied but doesn't give you much on the radio front.There are other small things with which it is easy to find fault (and which could perhaps be tackled via firmware) but which are almost certainly true of competing models, for example the setting of the sleep timer which increments in minutes and offers no options to save and select from preferred durations, is hugely annoying.All in all this approach to (and particular model of) an mp3 player has several benefits over many clip type players but is somewhat let down by its implementation. I'm sure I won't be alone in thinking 'If only...'.A dual mini-jack lead is included with the player (plus headphones and USB/UCB-C lead). Unlike some others it's not provided with a silicon case but given the size and (especially) weight of this type of unit you'll probably want something more as an arm band or belt pouch.No comment on the video play back.All that said, I'm happy enough with my Joliker and it seems a good option overall.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________** Update June 2025 **Perhaps because I've not used the silicone protector, the paint has been worn off much of the exposed metal of the player.The metal and glass construction adds significantly to the weight of the unit. It has survived the occasional fall although the glass back has cracks extending away from the microphone ports.The battery life and charging speed are significantly positive features and I can still listen for more than a day on a full charge. The indicator probably only starts to show any usage after around half of the charge has been expended.The touch screen isn't as sensitive as you might hope, although I'm still using it with the original plastic film in place.One issue with this is that it doesn't always respond to my attempts to << or >>. Or one of my cack-handed attempts to do so so results in accidental skipping back or on a file. Given that there's no tracking of the last played position in a file that's a bit of a pain with a 20 hour file.One of the oddities (seemingly more apparent with longer files) is that attempting to move directly to 90% (say) through a file by touching along the progress bar can often end up taking you backwards instead. That appears to be consistent for particular files rather than applying to the majority of files, however.Shuffle play and repeat appear to work fine - although I only use these by accident. It would be useful to be able to disable these in the settings.Sometimes, when loading a set of files - despite both the file name and id3 #track number order - these appear to play in the order that they were uploaded. This is is an occasional rather than a common or rare occurrence..The player doesn't play MP4 files whether or not these include video or are audio only.I contacted Joliker about firmware, mainly wanting to know whether there had been any effort to improve the player usability (re points in original review) but it seems that they have no interest in providing any updates.

Good little MP3 player bought for my son...previously used an Ipod shuffle but the charge is useless and eventually they give up and break.Happy with this purchase

I bought this Radio/MP3 to listen to the radio through my hearing aid via Bluetooth on my morning run. So far, this has not worked out as I'd planned. The Bluetooth connection needs to be re-established each time it is switched on. It fails to send the sound through the hearing aid - either from MP3 or radio (and, yes, I do plug the earphones in to act as an aerial). If I can't fix these problems, I'll have to send it back.

Product is good as advertised and more.

It works but size is everything and this is small to small and slow, so not easy to work with.

The touch screen is ok , and Bluetooth although a bit hit and miss works ok most of the time , but the device constantly drops out of connection to a pc when transferring files , other mp3's that I have do not have this problem , might just be unlucky with this device but overall not very good at all, so have returned and got a different one , which seems fine at the moment

My 6 year old niece loves it. Very easy to set up and use. Highly recommend it. Excellent value for money.