Zaqe Bluetooth MP3 Player

Sadly the Aiandcc player I bought last year has given up the ghost. 

On the way to London on Saturday it took ages to connect to my Bluetooth earphones. Then the connection was very poor with the player around 2 feet away. It was all snap, crackle and eventually pop. It was impossible to get the screen to light up. The battery was fully charged.

Disappointing, but it was very cheap. 

So enter the Zaqe Bluetooth MP3 Player.

This one was a bit more expensive. It's styled like a tiny smartphone. Touch screen and icons like I am used to.

After spending a while backing up the 256gb micro-sd card to the laptop, I fitted it into the expansion slot. 

The player came fully charged. It comes with a USB-C charging cable and curiously wired earphones,  and more unusually a printed manual. It also has a silicone cover. 

Of course being a man I haven't read the manual, although I did flick through it.

It was easy to set up the Bluetooth to my Samsung FE buds. Once I had briefly turn Bluetooth off on my Samsung phone.

The default language was French. Easily rectified through the settings icon. I set the date and time.

It actually has 128gb of internal memory, but whilst the music is on the SD card it seemed pointless to cover it over.

Choosing Music from the main menu will access the internal and SD card but it's every track and in alphabetical order.

Choosing Folder let's you choose internal or SD card. I have the music pretty much as it's stored on the old laptop in iTunes. Folders by artist and inside that, the albums.

The sound quality is pretty good. It does depend on the volume of the original recording, as it appears the upper sound level is limited by the EU. Whether other markets arent restricted I have no idea. It does mean that a way around it, on iTunes, is to edit downloaded and ripped music, and slide the volume control up.... then save it.

Let's see how this player performs.

I tested it with King Crimson's "Epitaph", as it has a range of sound levels.