I bought this mainly for the ability to navigate through folders that contained full albums of music from a usb flash drive. The unit is small, plugs directly into a cigarette lighter, comes with a handy little remote and has a lot more functions than you would expect from an item this reasonably priced. The previous review from A. Preston sums up a lot of the features and was very helpful to me when I was shopping. (thanks A!). Here's what I have to add.
There's not a lot of information available about how many folders or songs the player can read or how they read them, so I thought I would add that information for future shoppers.
The unit can access up to 99 folders and up to 1999 mp3's. You don't need to have a master folder as in some of the other models from this company. You can have folders inside folders up to a depth of 5, however the unit is only going to show you the names of the folders and their assigned folder number (as opposed to a directory tree like you would see on a computer). The player will see up to 32 gb of either usb flash drive OR SD card memory at one time. The display can show up to 32 characters(scrolling) for song name, 16 characters for artist name and 15 characters for album name in now playing screen.
Since my main goal was to play complete albums, my math is based on averages of my albums...you'll need to figure the true maximum amount of music you can store based on your preferences in bitrate. I was able to fit 99 albums on one 10gb flash drive and 99 albums on a 10gb SD card, giving me 198 albums to choose from without removing anything from the system. Remember, you're limited to 99 folders TOTAL, not 99 x 5 depth. :))
The only con I can think of for this is the fm transmitter portion of it. I'd highly recommend plugging it into an aux input or if you have a cassette player, a cassette adapter works nicely. When using the FM transmitter, the signal strength varies quite a bit and you wind up getting a lot of hiss from the radio. AUX works great though.
Lastly and definitely not least would be the customer service. I had several questions before I purchased and was answered each time within 24 hours with a personal reply...not some canned FAQ response.
Thanks for your help, Arthur!
I would definitely recommend this product to a friend. Soundfly AUX MP3 Player Car Fm Transmitter for SD Card, USB Stick, Mp3 Players (iPod, Zune, Sansa) with Remote Control
Soundfly AUX MP3 Player Car Fm Transmitter for SD Card, USB Stick, Mp3 Players (iPod, Zune, Sansa) with Remote Control has been the first Satechi product I have purchased. I have been extremely pleased with my purchase. I love the menu, folder, and navigation functions when listening to media I have on my SD cards. I am using 4GB cards presently. They only take a few seconds to load. When you can organize media into folders its wonderful to be able to use the Navigation function and get to what you want to listen to fast. I mostly listen to books. So I name my folders after the book, navigate to the book I want and play. Bookmark it when I stop and it resumes when I start the car back up.
I also listen to books on my Sansa through the Soundfly. Its the only way prestently I have to listen to the books I get through Audible.com. Doing it through Sansa you then use the Sansa menu and functions for pausing and playing and such. The Soundly essentially is your "headphone set". If you have an SD card or USB Stick in the Soundfly when using the Sansa you need to remember to pause the Soundfly. The media that was in it will continue to play even though you can't hear it while listening to Sansa.
I'm just really happy that I don't have to wear headphones anymore when driving in order to listen to what I want. I don't care for radio anymore. I'm also glad I don't have to burn everything onto discs to listen to car deck- which could not read mp3. This was a perfect, economical solution. Saved me from having to buy a new car deck to enjoy my mp3 media.
A word about Satechi and why I'm shaking hands with them. The menu function on the first unit I received was not working properly. I could tell I had a quality item in my hands, liked how it looked, felt and what it was supposed to be able to do but wasn't. So, I hoped something could be done to leave me satisfied. I followed the instructions on the invoice to contact Satechi about the issue. I got an email within an hour informing me that a new unit was being sent out with prepaid postage to return defective unit. I was impressed with their quick response and solution. They know they have a quality product and glitches are not impossible but are rare. The new unit arrived even faster than original. It is working perfectly. Absolutely love it and am happy Satechi offered such praiseworthy service.
Thank you. (shaking hands) - Car Fm Transmitter - Soundfly - Car Mp3 Player - Fm Transmitter'
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