RUIZU 64GB MP3 Player with Bluetooth 5.3, Portable Music Player for Kids Sports Running, FM Radio, Voice Recorder, Equalizer, 80H Digital Audio Video Shuffle Resume Playback, Up to 128GB Micro SD Card

I read the reviews and took a shot on this and happy I did. This is a no-frills MP3 player - you charge it up, load songs, hook it to a speaker or headphone and listen to music. No WiFi, no Bluetooth, no overly complex product with features you don't need or require you to login and have your activity monitored. PROs: * Small and lightweight - I thought I was shipped an empty box until I opened it. * Sliding power button - probably one of its best features - no, not the sliding button with a spring you have to hold for x seconds to power up or down, this my friends is a simple power switch. Slide it one way, its ON, slide the other way, its off. No waiting for power-ups, shut downs, etc. In the middle of song and you have to shut it off? - just flip the switch and you're done. * Has internal memory! - I didn't read the description in detail, so maybe I missed this, but I hooked it up to my computer to charge, fully prepared to rip open the 32GB micro SD card I bought with it to load songs and viola, the MP3 player has its own flash drive. I apologize, I don't recall the size the size, but I loaded well over 4GB of MP3s without and issue and they played fine. * Battery seems good and long, I connected it to a passive speaker and it played for well over six hours without issue. Pretty sure it will go much longer, but I haven't tested it extensively. * Simply a great device if you just want a simple MP3 player without worrying about running your phone's battery down, buying a Bluetooth speaker, or forgetting to grab your phone that you connected to a wired speaker. CONs: *It's small, lightweight and made of plastic (not bad things), so while it's tempting to throw in your pocket, I'd worry about snapping it in half. It's not flimsy per se, but I wouldn't risk dropping it or putting it somewhere it might get tossed around or compressed. * My only complaint (hence the four star rating) is there is no shuffle option - at least not that I've been able to find. As others have stated, there doesn't seem to be a good way to choose songs. Personally, I don't need to pick a specific song, I just want to listen to music in a random order. So far it appears to either play in the order songs were loaded in or alphabetic order - haven't paid really looked into which. I know many modern cars with USB ports for playing MP3s go the former route. There is software you can download to select the play order for such devices, but the problem is still the same for me - the player will always play the songs in the same order. I assumed this was the case when I bought it, I was just hoping it wasn't. All-in-all, it's still a great player at a reasonable price. Updated 10-12-18 Found the shuffle play! Maybe this is in the manual I haven't read, but if you're playing a song and press the M button, the player will show some additional menu items. Among them is shuffle. Select it then scroll to YES (no seems to be the default). Press the center button then you're golden. Really love this player now.

The RUIZU 64GB MP3 Player with Bluetooth 5.3 is fantastic for workouts, running, or just enjoying music on the go. The Bluetooth 5.3 connection is fast and reliable, making it easy to pair with headphones or speakers. With 64GB of storage, I can carry hundreds of songs, playlists, or audiobooks without worrying about space. It’s compact, lightweight, and durable, perfect for kids or anyone active. The FM radio feature is a nice bonus, and the battery life keeps me going through long runs or extended listening sessions. Overall, a great value for a portable music player!

Part of my review is influenced by a previous MP3 player made by a different company. That one was barely adequate, and cost more than this Ruizu. My primary use is for podcasts, lectures, sermons, articles that I rendered to MP3 through text-to-speech, audio books, and so on. If it had all the features I would *like* to have, it would be too expensive for me to purchase. Even so, I have more than I expected, and better than that other player. Like my unlamented previous player, there are certain features and procedures that the user simply needs to learn how to use. Sometimes we just have to push buttons and click around until we find out how something works. Don't worry, there are two resets: one to erase all MP3s, and the other to take it back to factory settings. Since I am not a teenaged girl, I have to operate the Ruizu with my adult male fingers. This can be difficult at times, and I have to set it down for more precise operation. The sound quality is good, which is expected. The equalizer function works, although some of the classifications do not seem to make much difference. Still, I can find a good setting; sometimes a spoken word file has been poorly recorded, and a different equalizer setting is a great improvement. The shuffle function seems to work only in a specific folder and not throughout the device, which is something I greatly prefer; I don't want to be rocking out to DeGarmo and Key and then find myself listening to a Greg Bahnsen lecture, for instance. You can set a maximum volume level, which is useful when playing an old recording and then having a newer one come on that is recorded "hotter" and louder. When plugged into the computer, you can add and delete folders, but they cannot be reordered. I do not *want* the Music, Picture, Video, and Books folders appearing above my own Podcasts folder, but I just click down a few times. The Ruizu has a clock which keeps reasonably good time. There is also an alarm that can be set, but I found no use for it. There is a sleep timer, but I do not know the purpose. (I hope it is not literal, people have had serious problems listening to an MP3 player when it's charging.) I have no use for the pictures function, nor the video. On this tiny screen? Also they must be in the proper format before uploading. The ebook reader fooled me because I thought it would take a document uploaded in TXT format and do a text-to-speech reading, but it only shows you words on the small screen. But I did not buy this player for those things, and it does what I need. There is a "screen lock" function. At first, I thought it was odd. Then I had the player in the front pocket of my pants and the fabric pressure changed what I was listening to, so that feature can be very useful. The instruction manual is almost worthless. If someone has had other players or familiarity with electronic equipment, they can sometimes learn more by tinkering with the player. The fast forward and rewind functions are weird. Yes, they work, but the time is not a steady stream, but in bursts, It appears that if you are moving forward or backward for any amount of time, you advance through minutes and not seconds. The instructions do not say. Another quirk that the user must become familiar. My main grievance is the "bookmarks" function. It is *very* inconsistent, often not working AT ALL, and other times it works again. If there is a trick to switching that function on and off, I have not found it. I followed the instructions (such as they are) to no avail. The bookmark is helpful when I'm in a 3-hour podcast and want to mark a location for later reference or just something that I can return to if my large shaky fingers send my Chris Plante podcast to the beginning and I wanted to listen from the 2-1/2 hour mark. The battery is very good. Because my last player was fussy, I charge the Ruizu every night, having made it run about 6-7 hours each work day. I forgot to charge it one day, but it did not matter for the battery life, and I got through the next work day without any problem with the player running down on me. So, there are some drawbacks that bother me but may not matter to other people. I plays MP3s, I can find them, good battery life, some features I did not expect that are beneficial. I have been using this player for 7 weeks and made it work five (sometimes six) days a week. It has been reliable.

Apparently, they created a new version of the product. I know this, because that's what the manual is for. But it talks about features that the delivered device doesn't have. The user interface is truly atrocious. The pathetic thing about it is, I wouldn't care at all if they simply included the correct manual. I don't mind learning a difficult interface. But when the interface is not discoverable, and various features require pressing multiple buttons simultaneously, then you have to be able to look it up and find out which buttons to press. There is no other way. If instead of the WRONG manual they had included a web address of a PDF with the correct manual, the problem would be significantly reduced. But this is just intentionally dishonest; they printed the wrong number of manuals, or built the wrong number of devices, and just mix-and-matched. But they don't have the same software. They don't have the same menus. If you change the software, you should update the product model number and this would never happen. A simple and important feature like the screensaver settings are listed in the manual, but not in the device menu. Does this mean you can't change the settings? Who knows. The interface also lags really bad. Press pause; now press play. There is such a long delay between pressing the button and the music starting that the natural instinct is to press it again; but if you do that, it plays about 1/5th of a second of music and then pauses again. Immediately. If the music is paused and press play/pause twice, rapidly, it instantly plays this short blip of music before returning to being paused. But if you just press it once, it sits there thinking about it before even starting. Very klunky interface. The sound quality is pretty bad, too. Setting the EQ to "rock" gives a flatter response than "off," they simply didn't bother tuning the defaults to give a flat response. So none of the EQ settings do what they were intended to do! All they had to do was tune the no-EQ settings, and the EQ formulas would all be good. But without that, they're not. Overall, the experience is worse than one of those old USB stick players with no screen and 3 buttons. The one and only advantage of this device is that it is rechargeable.

It works as intended. But be advised: for $30, they're going to cut corner somewhere. Here, they cut corners because the thing just doesn't get very loud. In a gym setting, which is noisy, it's just not quite loud enough. It's not terrible, it works, but it's just not very loud. This is true whether using wired earphones or Bluetooth earbuds. If that sort of thing matters to you, spend the $150ish range (and up!) for a quality Digital Audio Player (DAP). It's a whole new and different world of audio quality. It's generally for audiophile people, but I do think it's worth it to buy one quality item that plays really nice quality music as loud as I want. This cheap player gets the job done, it's fine, but don't expect brilliant sound out of it. It just doesn't get very loud. That said, to be clear, for $30 it is an excellent value. Honestly amazing what it can do for just $30. $30 buys you 2 sandwiches these days, so be realistic...

I bought the RUIZU MP3 player for my son’s after‑school workouts and it turned out to be the ideal solution for anyone who wants to enjoy music without the temptation of a smartphone nearby. The 64 GB of onboard storage holds thousands of songs, so there’s never a need to constantly sync or worry about space. Bluetooth 5.3 connects instantly to wireless headphones and stays stable even during vigorous runs, while the built‑in FM tuner provides a quick way to catch the news or a favorite station without turning on a phone. The interface is deliberately simple—large icons, a clear backlit display, and a single‑press play/pause button make it easy for kids and for anyone who doesn’t want to fumble through menus. Battery life is impressive, delivering up to 20 hours of continuous playback, which means a full week of workouts or a weekend road trip without hunting for a charger. One feature that truly sets this player apart for me is the “night‑mode” alarm. You can load soothing tracks or a gentle FM broadcast and set the device to wake you up, all while keeping your phone out of the bedroom. It’s a great way to avoid falling asleep next to a buzzing smartphone and still have quality audio at hand. The sturdy clip on the back lets the player attach securely to a belt or backpack, and the splash‑resistant case survives accidental drops and light rain—perfect for sports practice or outdoor adventures. Overall, the RUIZU 64 GB MP3 player delivers high‑capacity storage, reliable Bluetooth performance, and a distraction‑free listening experience in a compact, kid‑friendly package. Highly recommend for anyone who wants music, radio, and an alarm without the constant pull of a cell phone.

Love my Ruizu! It's small, lightweight and perfect to slip in your pocket when out walking. There's plenty of storage capacity for my audiobooks and it pairs easily with bluetooth earbuds. Once you get used to a few idiosyncrasies, it's easy to navigate. I recently upgraded the firmware and their customer service was first class when I encountered difficulties downloading the files; they speedily resolved the issue. Recommended for a low-priced, small and simple MP3 player.

This guy looked exactly like an AGPTEK down to hand feel, whatever freeware Chinese operating system all these generic mp3 players seem use, and all its other features. In terms of usage, it worked the exact same as an AGPTEK, the OS even started up the same as them and the layout and even icons were the exact same as them. The volume control wasn't as intuitive so I'd have to ding it there, and I can't speak for the battery life, but the battery certainly didn't agree with the claims considering my commute to and from work drained it nicely, but that could be attributed to the aux cord pulling extra power since I like blaring it. I'd comment more on the battery life, but unfortunately I didn't get full use out of it. It has nicer weight distribution compared to an AGPTEK and the sound quality might be slightly better, but it's certainly not worth the extra $10+ dollars that could be used towards better features. Now for the hardware, which is the meat of the issue and why I gave this two stars instead of three. Every mp3 player I've had will eventually get the "washing machine test," that is, I bring it in from my truck with it in my jean pockets, forget about it, and send it through the washer and dryer. The only component on any mp3 player that should be affected by this is the pillow supercapacitor (that big grey thing in my picture) which is sensitive to moisture. The dry cycle on a dryer is more than enough to dry it out, and generally doesn't get hot enough to actually damage it, and an mp3 player of any size should be able to handle the beating of being tossed around in a drying machine with relative ease- you might get a shorter battery life because of the pillow cap being exposed to water, but as long as it's dried properly (and you don't turn it on while it's wet) it won't actually -damage- the thing. Obviously this RUIZU didn't survive my washing/drying machine or I wouldn't be taking it apart to see what's up. First thing I noticed when I snapped the cover off was that the soldering on this thing is crap, it doesn't even meet Class I standards which was designed for cheap Chinese electronics. I know it was sealed well because if it wasn't, the flux all over the board would have been removed by the detergent/water. In fact it's probably there was a lot more flux residue on the board. It doesn't smell nor feel like no-clean flux, so that alone means they probably used water soluble flux and didn't clean it. What that means in laymens terms is that this thing will corrode to hell within a few weeks or months tops, and surely won't last more than a year unless you're lucky. Some of the hand-soldered components are super uneven or even just globbed on there in such a way that a strong shock would knock it off, and that doesn't even begin to mention the loose solder globs on the board or the fact that they had to apply additional masking because whoever soldered the power wires BURNT the board while doing so. That kapton tape is not an effective adhesive for more than masking or temporary application, so I was pretty disappointed that they couldn't even afford a cheap adhesive to connect the power wires to the pillow cap. I can see how they were using a longer/slimmer model and hence they used a strangely shaped pillow cap/"battery" on it, but I'd have preferred if they put it, the part that gets hot, somewhere away from the screen they adhesive attached it to, probably the only part on the board that's temperature sensitive. The SMT work seems alright so I can't comment there, but there was clearly a resistor that was corroded and there was FOD EVERYWHERE on the board. I might be able to claim "well that got in with the dryer" but when there was that much flux on the board after going through my washing machine, there's no way that was lint or something from my drying machine. I mean come on, sending the boards through a washing machine and shoving it in the oven for an hour at low temperature would even be a bare minimum standard better than what I'm looking at. This is disgusting and at a level that long passes "cheap Chinese junk" and enters into pure and possibly intentional/malicious negligence. When you're selling these things for more than an AGPTEK, I expect at least a class I solder job on it. As a side note, red boards are supposed to denote prototypes, not live production models, so that's also a little concerning albeit I can live with that. If it was at least semi-clean and if there was some kind of quality control on RUIZU's end I could still justify a 3 star rating, but after looking at this I just can't justify giving it even that. I think 90% of the problems that customers experience with this thing are precisely because whoever they have soldering these things isn't doing a proper job of it and there's no quality control at all on the manufacturer's end (or if there is, they're certainly letting issues visual with the naked eye past, let alone something an AOI process would catch). For those who don't get the technobabble; I bought it, didn't get through one battery cycle while watching it drain faster than it was supposed to, and it wasn't powering on after going through the washer/dryer (unlike every other mp3 player I've owned to date) so I tore it apart and found out it was extremely unclean inside. From what I'm seeing without even taking out the screws and looking at the other side, this thing is designed to fail within a few months and I think it's insane that it's even listed as an "Amazon Choice" when there are cheaper models that I know for a fact from taking those apart intentionally or unintentionally that they are in better condition than this.