Little Tunes MP3 Music Boombox with Built-in Speakers

Written by chipchick on Friday, 14 November 20087 Comments

The Little Tunes MP3 Music Boombox is smarter then most other MP3 players for kids right off the bat. Why? Because it’s got built-in twin speakers, so you dont have to worry about destroying kids sensitive young ears with headphones. The boombox comes preloaded with 20 songs and can also play additional WMA and MP3 files. It also sports a 1.4″ LCD screen and it has a convenient auto power off function after 70 seconds of inactivity. The Boombox is made up of a rubberized shell so that it should withstand some bumps pretty well. Additionally, headphones can be plugged in to the boombox but they aren’t included. The Little Tunes MP3 Music Boombox retails for just $29.99. Unfortunately, the product page doesn’t specify what is its actual memory capacity.

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LordNorth said:

Bought this for our daughter to replace the Fisher Price FP3 player (another junk item).

The one she opened Christmas morning was dead on arrival. A screw on the battery hatch, which is poorly designed anyway, was crossthreaded and stripped. Even after getting the hatch open the player would not work. Attributed the problem to the crossthreading and exchanged for a new unit.

Brought the new unit home and although the hatch could be properly secured, the unit still wouldn’t even power up. Brand new batteries, but I checked them anyway. Batteries: Good. Player: Dead.

Going to return this one and buy her a real mp3 player and a good protective skin.

I should have known better with a no-name manufacturer like “Blue Hat Toys”, but decided to give it a try. Live and Learn.

- 26 December 2008 at 5:05 pm

tibucky said:

Our daughter loves this! It is a tricky battery latch, but once we got it, it works great. Our other daughter has the Fisher Price FP3 player. The FP player seems to constantly need batteries. I called FP and they said battery life is about 8 hours. This one is better b/c it has speakers and can take headphones.

- 20 January 2009 at 7:57 pm

Nat G. said:

We’re really happy with our Little Tunes (although especially so since we found a place selling them on clearance, making them quite a bargain.) We thought ours was dead first, too, but we were missing the right directions for turning it on — you have to set the on switch in the back, and then hold down the musical note for a few seconds.

It could’ve used better directions for adults on file organization — it goes through the files in the main directory in alphabetical order. If one of those files is a directory, it goes through the files in the directory in alphabetical order. So to keep your music organized, put each album in its own directory, then start each file name with the track number.

We put stickers on the front of the player, listing the number of the track each album starts on. Makes it easier for our four year old – or her parents – to find a specific album.

Our biggest wish is that it had a power socket. But we’re pleasantly surprised with how long the batteries last when playing it off the speaker (we bought rechargable batteries for it and recharge them every few days.)

- 26 April 2009 at 1:08 pm

Leigh said:

Hi, I recently purchased one of these and had the same problem as LordNorth with new batteries it was still dead. Will however try what Nat G said about the switch on the back and holding down the musical note for a few seconds. If this doesn’t work I will be returning the product. They box mine came in stated that the memory is 256MB.

- 17 May 2009 at 7:37 pm

Kim said:

This is great information. Thank you, but do you know who to get the music you downloaded to play? It still will only play the 20 songs it came with. Thanks

- 4 February 2010 at 8:45 am

M said:

My daughter got this music box as her birthday present from her friend. We opened the box and found out the USB cable is messing.
Luckly we have the one that fit for the toy , I put my dauther’s favorite songs and tried to play them.
I turned swich on, but It didn’t show anything. The music box only play music when it’s connected with USB cable to PC.
The speaker doesn’t work. That is a pieace of jumk!!!

We can bring it anywhere to fix or replace it because it was a present from my daughter’s friend and we don’t want to make them feel bad.

- 16 June 2010 at 2:34 pm

Holly said:

My son’s Little Tunes MP3 Music Boom Box will only play the 20 pre-programmed songs because his mother can’t figure out how to download songs onto it! Can anyone give me directions for loading music onto this thing???? I’m totally frustrated! Thanks!

- 5 August 2010 at 2:20 pm