I got this mp3 player as an alternative to the Sandisk Sansa Clip (which supports a micro SD card, but not Bluetooth) and the Sandisk Sansa Clip Plus (which has Bluetooth but no SD card slot). The Victure M3 supports both. It's almost exactly the same size as the Sandisk players, and cheaper too. Sound quality is good, it's small, light and does what you want from an mp3 player. It's also a bit more capable than advertised - for instance, OGG format is supported for playback over wired headphones (though strangely not over bluetooth), and it had no problems with reading my 128Gb SD card, even though the specs state that only up to 64Gb is supported.
On to the small quirks, none of which are deal breakers. Initially, the M3 would not connect to my Bluetooth headphones (QCY Q29). This turned out to be because my headphones were Bluetooth v4.1, whereas the M3 only supports up to Bluetooth v4.0 out of the box. However, email support were extremely fast and helpful, replying within a day, and immediately sent me updated firmware (with very thorough accompanying instructions) - the update process was absolutely straightforward. My M3 now connects extremely reliably to my headphones, and I have had no problems with it since then.
The other main quirk is that like many older mp3 players, files are sorted by the order in which the files are written to the memory card rather than alphabetical, which leads to an incorrect playback order. This can be fairly easily fixed by using a third-party tool to reorder the files on the card (for example, SD Sorter, DriveSort or FAT Sorter). An annoying quirk for sure, but not one that causes any real problem as long as you know about it.
Apart from that, this is a great little mp3 player. Great sound quality, good features and super-portable. At the ludicrously low price, what's not to like?
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