Chris, you probably have the one that's been around for a while, with a remote. If so, you can jump songs by entering a number on the keypad and hitting enter (play). So if you have 500 songs, any number between 1 and 500 will access a track. I think it sorts by date.
It finally arrived and got a chance to give it a good workout. I'll give it a 7/10. It's fine for its basic use as a mixtape that will play without interruption, but some serious drawbacks. The manual is
here for the curious.
Nice:
• Works like those tape adapters for car decks, but wireless!
• Spring-loaded MicroSD slot that accepts type 10 cards as large as 128 gigs
• Supports FLAC, MP3, WMA, OGG, APE, WAV, AAC-LC, ACELP, and Audible.
• Built-in LCD Display with adjustables for brightness and blanking timeout
• Headphone jack that gets plenty loud
• Remembers where it was in a track and will pick up there on next use
• MicroUSB Port (comes with full-size USB adapter) lets you load songs to the card like any thumb drive
• Play modes! Single repeat, folder once/repeat, all once/repeat, and "intro" (first 10 seconds of all songs)
• Sleep timer
• Multiple languages
Meh:
• BT only transmits. It can't pair to your phone for music. There is also no app written for it, which would give you the remote it's missing. Maybe the next gen.
• Built-in battery kind of small at 200mAh. They claim 12+ hours but I'm wagering 2-3.
• Capacitive touch control panel. This may be necessary to avoid squeezing it, but the buttons are so close together that it fails to register a lot. Spread them out, make them larger, and since they're all being used for different reasons depending on the mode you're in, label them, not just a single tape button symbol.
• EQ selections are pretty dismal. Of the five, only "Jazz" expands treble and bass adequately.
• You can't just turn it on and hear music, play must be pressed first.
Lame:
• No remote. Even though this is official, there is a sensor on the board and a hole for it, located on a side on the alignment ridge, so it can be seen when in a side-loading deck. I hope they just ran out of time to implement it 100%, because without one, everything you want to change - volume, track, EQ, all of it - you have to take it out of the player.
• You're told to fully understand user manual before use. They're sort of right.
• Screen size is so small I have to squint. Gives me a headache. It seems to use one of those old Chinese off-the-shelf MP3 players from years ago, but now with a tape head output. I've got a couple different ones that were cheap giveaways at trade fairs. You can scan about one song/second at full speed. Volume is worse because once you hit a certain point it displays an ear, saying you must press the menu button to confirm that you want to "go to 11"
• You can't simply turn it off. You must hold a switch for three seconds while a countdown finishes.
• There aren't separate up/down buttons for volume and tracks. You have to press the VOL button to change from the playback screen to the volume screen. Sorry not press, but hold for three seconds. Just tapping it throws you back to the main menu, because VOL doubles as the "back" button for menu navigation.
