Review on 🎶 BERENNIS 16GB MP3 Player with Bluetooth 5.0 - HiFi Lossless Sound, FM Radio, Voice Recorder, Video Player - Large Screen Music Player, Supports up to 128GB by Dan Sturm

Just received the Berennis MP3 player. The first impression is great. I bought this MP3 player to replace my trusty SanDisk Sansa MP3 player which I have owned for several years. I use the MP3 player almost exclusively for the FM radio recording capability that this Berennis has. The Berennis was packaged well, the MP3 player is about as wide as my arm but feels heavy (metal body) giving it a premium look. . It looks great and appears to be well made. It loads fast. By pressing and holding the power button, the device will display the main menu for 3-4 seconds. Much faster than my SanDisk. The menus and controls are intuitive and I figured out almost everything without reading the manual. The control buttons are much more responsive than the SanDisk I have. With SanDisk, you need to be precise where you tap up, down, left, right, play/pause, and back. With Berennis, the sensory areas seem to be much more precise. I recommend you to change some of the default settings: - SETTINGS > Set date & time and date & time format - RECORDING > Recording format > MP3 recording (WAV by default, which saves much larger files instead of compressed files) - RECORDING > Recording settings > Recording bitrate set > 128 kbps or 192 kbps (default 32 kbps, 128 or 192 should be sufficient for most cases) After some short FM radio recording tests it seems to record well with good sound quality at a bit rate of 128 kbps. A few things don't seem to work though, but definitely not a deal breaker, just some personal preferences that I'm used to with my Sansa SanDisk. :- File name format for FM radio recording: FMREC001.MP3 (REC001.MP3 for voice recording). My SanDisk Sansa uses the radio station and date in the filename to write FM radio: 91-5_122318_001.WAV So it's 91.5 FM and the date is 12/23/2018. I can live with that, it's just more convenient to at least have the date in the file name. My SanDisk Sansa records in blocks of 2 hours. For example, if I start recording and don't come back within 5 hours, two 2 hour files are saved and written to the third. That's convenient. Berennis appears to be recording continuously until you stop the recording yourself. I'll do more testing on that front tomorrow. I may have to adjust to the Berennis continuous recording mode, it's not really a big problem, we'll see. All in all I think this will be a great MP3 player/recorder. It compares well to my SanDisk Sansa, has twice the onboard storage (8GB vs 16GB) and is about half the price of my SanDisk Sansa which I probably bought 5 years ago.