First the positives. This is a well designed and well built device. It feels solid and the display is easy to read. The dual headphone output is a great feature that allows music sharing. The programming is exactly what you need with clear choices. It is nice to be able to search music out by the artist, the album or the song. I had an opportunity to take this on vacation and used two functions (music and radio). It does a fine job of holding a charge and charges quickly. Almost everything was great!
But there are two negatives. The first is loading music to the device. It had a hard time organizing albums from CD into albums in the MP3 player. I now have several intact albums and three that ended up scrambled into a singe album with no name. The song titles always stayed accurate but I have three songs listed as song %231 and they are at he top of the list. The other negative is the "synch" function. after loading several albums the device failed to synch and it could not find any of my music. I had to reload all of the songs and start over. As a backup, I manually copied the full song package to an extra memory chip. If you play from the memory chip it lacks certain functions like sorting by album.
In the big picture, once I managed to get the music copied and synchronized, it worked great. I would buy this again with no hesitation.