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[update: this device caused a kernel panic on my MacBook Pro. I've never had a USB storage device take my system down. Use with caution! Looks like the device is no longer available.]I've used MP3 players for years, and am a fan of Rockbox MP3 player replacement software. This review is for people like me who are picky about your player.BUILD QUALITY:It has a sturdy, heavy feel with a thick, solid, one-piece metal box for sides & back. On the right side are two solid feeling metal buttons-- power on/off, and quick-record. The other side has a slide switch to lock the device. This physical lock switch is simpler to use than a key combination. The card slot is on the lower left.The display/touch-button surface is plastic, not glass; perhaps less prone to breakage, more prone to scratches. The display itself is too dim at the brightest setting to be readable outside during the day.The lower part of the screen has six touch buttons (that work like a capacitive touch-screen). I don't like these touch-buttons. They are too sensitive, and too easily pressed by accident. You have to lock the screen before putting it in your pocket. I would have preferred mechanical buttons that can be felt in the dark or while still in your pocket. They might outlast mechanical buttons?The headphone jack & USB port on the bottom feel solid.POWERING ON/OFFPress the power button for 2 seconds and it fully powers on by the 4th second. Hold the power button for 3 seconds and it will be fully powered off by the 4th second. If you powered down while in playback, it will resume playback when you power back on. It can resume operation when you power up, but not in every mode.FILE TRANSFER & CHARGINGConnecting the device to a computer via USB brings up a choice of CHARGE & TRANSFER, or CHARGE & PLAY. Upon choosing CHARGE & TRANSFER, both the internal memory and the micro SD card mount quickly and work as expected on my Mac. Both volumes are formatted as MS-DOS FAT32. All file management works natively in Finder. One minor issue is that when you go to eject either the device's internal volume, or the micro SD card, it properly unmounts & ejects the one you chose, and gives you the "Disk Not Ejected Properly warning for the second one. Even selecting both devices and choosing "Eject" gives the same error about one of the devices. One major issue (as mentioned in my update) is that the device caused a kernel panic on my computer. That's bad.Note that the player does not recognize or list m4a files which are common with iTunes files! Be prepared to use a batch converter if you have those kinds of files. I use Fission, and it works pretty well.RECORDINGThe voice recorder has three file formats: MP3 (rates 32, 64, 128, and 192 kbps) Compressed WAV (512, 768, 1024, 1536 kbps), or ACT (fixed at 8 kbps). It has a "Tarck AVRmode" [sic] which enables an Automatic Voice Recording mode (cuts out long silences -- it loses the first parts of words, but remains intelligible. . There are "scenes" which seem to be related to noise cancellation. I tried one of those modes, but I didn't notice any effect on the recording.I recorded some drums-- as an extreme test. The sound from the built-in mic is not very good, but it wasn't totally distorted, either. I'd say it's fine for low-fidelity needs, voice memos, and meetings. As far as recording music, you will be able to hear melodies, chords, and rhythms, but I don't think you would enjoy the sound quality. The FM recording works fine. It's not a high quality recording, either, but it is musically ok. A little high frequency is lost, but it is in stereo and works as it should.USER INTERFACE (FIRMWARE VERSION 1.0)Both the GUI on the device and included instruction booklet are both similarly rough. The firmware needs some touching up.There is a "Spectrum Analyzer" animation during MP3 playback, but it is fake. The animation has no relation to the frequency content of the file. I really hate that. During playback, the display says "NDR" over on the side, but there's no clue as to what that means.When setting the volume limiter, it shows a vertical slider, but rather than set this with the up/down volume buttons, you have to use the left/right buttons to adjust (which is not intuitive). When in FM recording mode, the display shows a microphone symbol, and says "voice"-- making you think that you are in voice record mode, and not FM record mode. The only indication that you are recording FM signal is the file name.The sleep timer setting screen has two lines, one says "off" the other sets the number of minutes. I kept trying to turn it ON, but it kept exiting. I figured out that "off" actually means "Cancel". So the two options are: 1. Cancel operation ("off") or 2. enter some number of minutes (1-99 in increments of 1 minute) to activate. It does work, but once you leave the sleep timer screen, there isn't any indication on the screen to let you know it is properly set up and going to sleep. After it shuts off, it won't remember your sleep setting, so you will always have to start from scratch to set the sleep timer. Thus, it won't work as a sleep player- you would have to wake up and re-set the minutes every time.At first, the MP3 tag viewer (by artist, album, genre etc) appears to only work for the built-in ("local") memory and not the card contents. But when you select the card folder, it will do an index and then include MP3 tags that are on the card into your lists.The folder/file view shows all folders & MP3s. If there are files that are not readable it won't display them at all. Also, weirdly, it doesn't always sort folders in alphabetical order. I haven't yet figured out what logic it uses to sort lists of files & folders, but it is not consistent.The text viewer would not display the entire text. When it got near the end of the sample, it looped back to the beginning without showing the entire file. I had to look at the file on my computer to confirm. It's a corny story/joke and I wanted to read the punchline.You have to jump through lots of hoops to get a video into the correct format to play, and even then it will look terrible. The player includes software (to install on your computer) to convert video. However, when I tried to uncompress the .rar file it said the file was damaged. So no go, there. Doesn't matter. Not worth the trouble. Think of this as an audio player that CAN view pictures and play video, but shouldn't.EXTRA FEATURES:In the Settings/Tools section, there is a stopwatch and calendar. The stopwatch can keep 5 different lap times. The calendar displays a month calendar, for quick reference. The pedometer is on the main menu. It seems to do something, but I couldn't figure out if it was working properly or not.UN(DER)-DOCUMENTED FEATURES:The "Return" button is really kind of a "back" button. Long press the "return" button to get to the main menu. In some modes, you can short-press the power button to return to the Now-Playing window. During playback, long-pressing the play/pause button opens the settings menu. Sometimes long-pressing play/pause opens a contextual menu.BATTERY LIFE & CHARGINGThe battery life seems good. It shows an activity animation when charging but it doesn't indicate progress. In fact, you have to press a second button to get it to show that it is actually finished charging. If you don't do a second button press, it will keep showing the charging animation.SUMMARY:For the price, it is a decent value. The hardware is well-designed and sturdy. However, the crude software and poorly written instructions remind you that this is not a sophisticated player. It does all the basic functions you need, but you'll probably have to jump through a few more hoops. I took off two stars because the quality of the software is poor enough to make the experience less enjoyable.ROCKBOX PLUG:If this device could run the Rockbox software, that would solve everything. Right now, there are no currently selling devices that run Rockbox (that I know of). I wish that this manufacturer would get in touch with the RockBox developers and work cooperatively to make a working port for this device. It would be a great fit!

Is this some sort of scam or joke? 100% 5 star reviews? I ordered this MP3 player and received a stack of empty clear plastic SD card cases sealed in the Dansrue package! Inside the familiar Amazon shipping box was an envelope with a barcode and sticker saying "Dansrue MP3 Music Player 8GB Black;" inside was a stack of 6 empty SD card cases to fill the envelope.Yes, I know this is more of a seller issue, however, I'm not allowed to upload photos with my seller review, so I'm instead now reviewing the product I received: a collection of 6 empty clear plastic SD card cases.Maybe I'm supposed to use my imagination and pretend these 6 little clear plastic SD card cases are a 5 star MP3 player? Or maybe one of them is supposed to be the head set, another is supposed to be the cord, and the other 4 are supposed to be the MP3 player. They could, I suppose, hold a few ibuprofen, which would come in handy for the headache I now have. The clear plastic is of the highest quality. I could even put a couple quarters in each case and effectively carry around $3 in change. I could get fancy and put a photo in each case and turn them into a pendant necklaces! Or even better idea, I could package them up like they're an MP3 player and try to resell them to another sucker!I hope, for the sake of the seller that I am the only one being scammed and one lone employee who needs to be fired stole just one MP3 player and put empty cases in it's place, sealed the package and put the bar code sticker on there thinking they got away with it.I do hope whomever is responsible for this receives their paycheck envelope filled with blank paper. Then they, too, can have as much fun as I'm having today wasting my time running out to a store to try and find an actual MP3 player in time.

I'm probably not qualified to rate this player as it is the very first player I've used. It feels and looks like it should cost more; that's as technical as I can get. Learning how to navigate through the screen menus took me a bit of time, but with the aid of a magnifying glass, to read the instructions, I did it. I uploaded an audio book (12 CDs worth) to the Music library and with a bit of renaming chapters it is playing in order and in high quality sound. The end goal is to use this in my old car through the AUX port on the CD player. No more swapping CDs while driving.

I use my mp3 players predominantly for when I am working out and this device is HEAVY. It is by far the most heavy mp3 I have owned in the last 10 years and that is my greatest disappointment with it. It is so heavy it almost pulls my shorts off when running and that is not an exaggeration. I have also become used to how devices I have had before work and the button layout and steps to change songs, the volume, etc. I find to be vey counter intuitive. This is not a big problem to me but just a note. However, I do think that it has great sound when I am using it when not working out so if a person wants to use in more stationary, it could be a good choice.

Fabulous mp3 player. Love it. FM radio is actually in stereo and has great reception. Battery takes a while to charge, but lasts a 'long' time. If I were handling it a lot I would prefer real buttons. However, I keep it on my car dash with velcro where the 'touch screen' buttons are preferred.

plenty of storage, just what i need

Good Quality and Price!

Great, no problem