Travel Bluetooth music player

suept

We have a nifty little Bluetooth speaker and would like to buy a small music player to take with it when camping. We have lots of mp3 downloads so would like to store them on the player and/or an sd card.

Decent quality sound
Easy to use
Easy to swap sd cards
Portable

Any recommendations welcome.

endorphin

suept why not use your phone as your MP3 player?

bobrobinson

suept

Take a look at the link below.

Bluetooh speaker with built in memory card slot

thunderdragon

suept We have a nifty little Bluetooth speaker and would like to buy a small music player to take with it when camping. We have lots of mp3 downloads so would like to store them on the player and/or an sd card.

Tip:

Many models of bluetooth speaker have a built-in micro-SD card slot (Usually labelled “TF-card” on Chinese-made devices) and will play any music files from the SD card they are able to recognise. If there’s a MicroSD/TF-card slot on your existing speaker, you could use it as a standalone MP3 player! 😇 👍️

Caveats:

The main problem with this method is that playback will be controlled entirely through the play and skip fwd/back buttons on the device, which makes storing and playing large audio collections entirely impractical. For best results, try to keep the number of tracks (Whether these are individual songs or whole albums in single files) below 30. 👍️
On many speakers - Cheaper ones especially - The playback order of songs will be determined by their position in the FAT filesystem of the card, and not the alphabetical order of songs by name. If this applies to your player the easiest way to organise things is to drag/drop songs onto the card one at a time in the order you want them to play, first to last. 🔀
For best results, have a dedicated mSD card for this purpose and format it before putting the songs on. Put the songs in the root of the card and not in subfolders unless the instructions for the speaker state otherwise.
Finally: For all practical considerations, those smaller mSD cards you might have kicking around in the bottoms of drawers are best for the job. Old 128MB or 256MB cards are ideal (They’ll hold about 2-4 hours of music respectively) and allow reuse of those cards that are just too small for use in modern phones. 👍️

Hope this helps! 🔈️ 👍️
+++ 🚄 ThunderDragon 🤘 +++

edb37

Sandisk clip sports plus should be ideal.

suept

edb37 Thanks, I will look at that. I didn’t think of looking at sports devices because I thought capacity would be limited.

Plus we camp in a small motorhome so have a bit more space available!

suept

endorphin We tried that, and are currently using an old phone for that purpose. But it seems to be a bit fiddly, maybe we need to try a different app

endorphin

suept But it seems to be a bit fiddly,

It won’t be any more fiddly to connect to your Bluetooth speaker using your phone than an MP3 player. The connection process is identical.

suept

Yes, the connection is ok, but the app doesn’t work properly. It is a very old windows phone..

endorphin

suept which app? which phone?

suept

bobrobinson thanks, I will take a look later

bobrobinson

Sorry the link wouldnt upload.
Bob

suept

thunderdragon thanks, useful information. I will let him know

suept

Update: I decided to use my old tablet, which was only being used for my songbooks.
Using Samsung Music player and our music sd cards it is perfect for our purposes.

Thank you everyone for your suggestions.