[themodelplumber]

I got the Oakcastle color MP3 player for my birthday last year. I had an AGPTek I think, before that. I like them. AGPTek is a good brand in my experience.

I do try to pay a bit higher than the baseline $20 USD range to get a better quality player, and sort by newest-to-market first, to get fresher batteries & firmware.

For walking or hiking the ones with buttons and clips are really great. They are very easy to use without looking at the screen. Mine do support .m3u playlists and have built-in playlist systems as well. You can shuffle files or shuffle playlist entries.

The FM radio features are also usually really convenient if you have wired headphones and any good stations or scheduled programming near where you live.

(I also have a ton of songs on my phone's card and I use Musicolet for that, which is great, but completely different in terms of experience, and I prefer not to walk or hike while holding my phone)

[at_a_remove]

AGPTek looks great, now I just have to winnow the products to see which has what I want. Thank you.