Waterproof Apple iPod Shuffle with True Short Cord Headphones - Highest Rated Waterproof MP3 Player on Amazon

UPDATE: Almost a year later and my AudioFlood iPod is still going strong! It has withheld an everyday beating of an hour swim time, sauna, hot tub, shower, and plenty of drops and bangs. The battery life has not diminished any noticeable amount in my year of near daily use either. UPDATE: Audio Flood called me a few weeks after my purchase and cleared up the headphone issue over the phone. I was told using the "Christmas tree style" ear plugs were ideal and they were spot on. I pop the headphones and swim for about 45 minutes until my ears start to get a little sore. That's right, you heard me, I get in the pool and swim non stop for about 45 minutes... everyday. This is compared to the fifteen minute grind I used to do every other day before this purchase. Each time I swim with my Audio Flood iPod Shuffle is like the best swim I have ever had. I Also, emailed them to ask about storage and usage temperatures (more specifically for a sauna) and received a reply within 10 minutes with my answer as well as some additional upkeep and storage information. I will keep this post updated as my usage continues. I will say is that I am swimming close to twice as far and enjoying it even more with music in my ear. I have had this iPod for about a week and may have figured out some of the other complaints about this product, however, I will address those later. Overall, my satisfaction is a solid five stars. The functionality of the iPod shuffle has not changed due to the waterproofing and works great like other apple products. So, essentially, what I wanted is perfect and has, to this point, withstood sauna temperatures as well. The biggest issue with most consumers seems to be the headphones and it is understandable since there is only one or two other pairs available on Amazon. The headphones that come with it are obviously not a top tier quality but I don't need the precision of Bose while I am swimming. I may look in to finding a new pair for convenience though. Overall, I found that if water gets in between your ear drum and headphones then it can muffle sound making it appear as if it has cut out or has fallen out. So make sure the plugs in your ears fit or buy replacement ones. A different strategy is to purposely fill that gap with water and crank the volume up. It sounds a bit different, but still sounds good and works. The iPod comes with a headphone extension that did completely wipe one ear from working but I don't use it and don't care. Overall, fantastic item. I will update in a few months. P.S. You should find or make some better headphones and sell them on Amazon. Yes you, start a business.

I bought this back in August of 2014, There is nothing else like this on the market....TEN STARS! First of all, Its an Apple product, Crystal clear beautiful sound. Like in a Theater, like all IPods, only under the water. ITS AN EXPERIENCE, A BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE, THE SOUND UNDER THE WATER IS " WOW", you can't believe, how clear! Listening to music under the water is unreal, different than on "LAND" LOL, you want to stay down there, wow, just thinking how peaceful. 2nd of all, it really does do what it says, ITS WATERTIGHT. Durable! Lightweight! Comfortable! I am giving this review now, as to explain my experience of having it for almost eight months. I swim laps, do water exercise, and also goof around in the pool. The headphones I believe are of excellent Quality, they have a short cord for attaching to your cap, or goggles. VERY comfortable, nothing dangling in your face, or around your neck, or in the way of sight, or swim motion. IT FEELS LIKE HAIR ON MY HEAD! REALLY! Sometimes I forget I am wearing it, and have to feel for it. DUH, Like looking for your glasses, on your nose, lol. FYI GOOD TIP: If you are Someone at the pool who does not wear goggles, or a swim cap, you can just tie a pony tail and clip it on the elastic band! Ta Da " YOU ARE MUSIC IN MOTION". I have seen them do this, with this model. 3rd is the Price, how can you beat it. I see other devices with sooooooooooo many buttons, to confusing when swimming. I see people stop and adjust their buttons, and get frustrated, I see people adjusting their headphones,all the time, dangling below their chins, or just having to hold them. And what's with those orange "Zip Ties" REALLY? I see arm bands, and I have had to dive down a get whats "ripped off their arms", as that style is in the way of a " FLUID MOTION" So many "Oh S***s'", NOPE not with mine. I see the same people with "NEW" ones all the time, they say their other ones " CRAPPED out".....NOT MINE. So you see why the price is right, I still have mine, loving it, I just bought another one for my soft music. 4th a better workout, because you don't want to leave the pool, you stay and workout longer, REALLY, ZERO BOREDOM! 5th, The headphones come with an extension cord, for regular use, love the fit of these, glad to have the extension cord for the Gym, part of my Gym....The LAND PORTION, LOL. I ordered another one today, as I wanted to have different music for the pool, and I got spoiled at the good price, Got Purple this time, for my soft music playlist, and I use the green one I got last August for my Rock n Roll/Metal. This new purple one is a smart purchase, as now I have a back-up pair of headphones, and double my music, to go with my moods in the pool. If anyone has any question as to is this a great deal... The answers are.... A) Great Music, Great Quality, Why Yes! Its an Apple product, Your music, your way. Crystal Clear Sound. B) It really does/is what It says, WATERPROOF, WATER TIGHT! C) Comfortable Headphones, with Dual use, In pool, on "LAND". D) Works right out of the box, REALLY! Doesn't get any easier!. E) All of the above. Now You choose your answer....

UPDATE 2018 I've now had my Audioflood for over FOUR years and have had zero problems with it. I have very small ear canals and have a hard time finding ear buds that will stay in my ears. After some initial false starts 4 years ago, the Audioflood people helped me find waterproof earbuds that fit. However, recently, I lost one of the ear bud tips. When I contacted Audioflood about buying a replacement of these tips these amazing folks actually SENT me at no charge, several of these tips. You don't get customer service better than this. If you are considering a waterproof sound system for your lap swimming, look no further. Treat yourself to an Audioflood and BUY THIS PRODUCT!!!! UPDATE 2016 Two years after my purchase, I was having a small technical difficulty but true to form, the folks at Audioflood helped me solve the problem! They are a great company and this product continues to be a terrific product which adds a whole new dimension to my swim workouts. I am lost without it. Don't hesitate any longer, just go ahead and buy it! (See all my reviews below). UPDATE: More than one year later. When I read a review of a product on Amazon, I always want to know, how long the person has had the product and do they still love it. So, I'm here to say that over a year later, I think this product is still THE BEST! I love my Audioflood and am always answering questions about it and recommending it when someone new sees me at the pool using it. The sound quality, the ease, and the Customer Service are terrific. I will say again (see my original review below), if you have any problems with your device or earbuds, contact Customer Service before giving up or writing a negative review. There are solutions which Customer Service at Audioflood can offer that will help you feel like I do that this is one of the BEST purchases for the money that I have made. INITIAL review: I bought this 6 months ago but wanted to wait until I had used it for a while before writing a review. I read all the reviews on this and other waterproof MP3 players before I bought this product. I previously had purchased a different waterprrof MP3 product which was less money but as they say, "you get what you pay for". It didn't work well with my mac for downloading music and eventually I just had to find a replacement product. I splurged on this one and it is the best! The best product and the best customer service! I read about the problems folks had with the earbuds and I'm here to say that if you are having problems with the earbuds, contact Audioflood customer service. They are amazingly helpful and offer great tips. I have very small ear canals and though the shuffle worked great, I couldn't get the earbuds to fit quite right, stay put, etc. With the help of the Audioflood people, I stopped have any problems with the earbuds and am only sorry I didn't contact them from the get go. I am so enjoying the amazing sound quality and ease with which this player provides music for my swim workouts that I would encourage anyone looking at this product to just go ahead, buy it. It is worth every penny. And don't bother with the extra cost of warranty insurance. The product already comes with a two year warranty in the basic price.

I have had the device for one week approximately and it is showing itself to have good to excellent sound quality in the dry ear buds, easy to load I-tunes, responsive controls, and good selection of bud sizes for the waterproof use. It is much better overall quality than the Pyle water proof player (which stopped working well under a year). This new device is not without certain inconvenience however. I am early in the process of evaluating its water proof use as I swim laps. Initially I found that my flip turns gleaned the buds from my ears. I will need to incorporate a swim cap (which I only wore for ocean swimming) for lap swim to hold them in. Grrr. Another initial problem seems to be the extra connection link of speaker wire on the waterproof connector. I have had to work it in and around to get sound in both ear buds. Once done, however, it is done and sound is good in water wear. Wearing the pod on my arm and with the extension speaker wire my stroke is not perturbed. No hang ups either but then I only use a crawl stroke or kick-board. Thus far the unit is functioning well but caveat emptor I have only had it about a week. I might revise comments, if possible, as time goes on. 5/15/16 I do have an update regarding the in-line speaker wire attaching the device to buds. Unfortunately it is not the best of news for a new product just out of the box. The manual adjustment of the wire to connect the buds fails to adequately seat the bud connection and sound is spotty as I swim and always on a flip turn. I'll sometimes get one speaking sometimes neither. My answer was to go to Big Five and buy some JVC buds that have a continuous wire. I also bought a larger swim cap, covered my new ear buds, and with the new combination I enjoyed the device and a long swim. Even with kids raging and screaming in the kid area I was in my own lap lane away from them and my downloaded music play was great. Of course sorry I had to pay for dysfunctional equipment right out of the box. Also not interested in paying for and wearing an advertising swim cap either.

I am a swimmer. I swim three times a week for ~ 35 minutes non-stop. I swim because everything I have ever read says swimming is the best exercise. I have been swimming for over 15 years. Sadly, boring is how I would describe swimming. Rarely is there ever any eye candy. Just fat people like myself. :-( However, I am a hell of a swimmer and after swimming for 35 minutes non-stop, I am not even tired. So it is a great, boring exercise. Over the years I have tried a couple of different music systems and without exception, they all sucked! This is why I was initially reluctant to buy the AudioFlood Waterproof iPod, but the reviews indicated that the vast majority of customers were very satisfied with the unit. I use these Amazon reviews to validate most products I buy and with majority giving it a thumbs up, at $140, I figured I would gamble and buy this iPod. Whooooooo!!!!, who knew! The damn thing works awesome. I have now used it a couple of times in the pool and I love it. The sound quality is great and the only problem I have is as that I swim pretty quickly, I make a lot of noise pounding my arms into the water and breathing loudly. I have modified my breathing to make less noise and I don't slap the water as hard and I am just besides myself. The 35 minutes of boring swimming is so much easier. Laps go much faster if your brain is distracted by good tunes, and as a big Macintosh fan, on my five star favorites playlist I have over 4 days of music. Now I can swap out the music and finally listen to all of it. :-) So I recommend this product BIG TIME. Admittedly, a regular non-waterproof iPod will die if you sweat big time. But based on my experience with a 1giga byte iPod, I expect the unit to last from 5 to 8 years. On that note time will only tell. But I am loving it. And boring, hahahaha, I am no longer bored while I swim.

The short review: Excellent product that works amazingly well. Game changer for longer endurance swims. The longer review: The Nano clips on to the goggle straps and the cord is the perfect length to the ears. Once you get a good seal with the earbuds they are pretty secure. On a 2000m swim I did have to quickly stop about 3 or 4 times to readjust the earbuds; I will be trying out the different size earbuds provided to see if they fit better. The audio quality is very clear and I had a huge smile for the first few laps because of how well it worked. The quick adjustments required throughout the swim are well worth it for me as it really did help the laps go by. During the last 100m I was pushing off the wall a little harder which made the earbuds lose their seal. I have a feeling this device will not work as well for interval training / sprints with harder push offs, but again still have to test out the different size earbuds. Overall super happy with this product and the customer service has been great as well.

EDITED REVIEW: IF you read below, you will see that at first I gave this product a pretty good review. NOW it is 3months later and the damn thing doesn't work at all; I even took it to the Apple store. They have no connection to this product and and think the 'Waterproof' idea is totally a fraud! ... So I am returning the product, not even getting a full refund, and am VERY ANNOYED at Amazon for even selling this in the first place. (1) It's a great idea. (2) but if it doesn't work past a few months - it's a total waste of money! .........OLD REVIEW: I have to give this a mixed review, but I'll be specific. When I heard there was a waterproof iPod shuffle I could use while swimming or exercising in the pool I was ecstatic! The price was fair. Though I wondered why it was not for sale in any Apple store. ... I bought it, was very happy for it for 1 1/2 years. I purchased it on Amazon. One day it just stopped working and would not recharge on my computer; I had been able to use it for about 10 hours of music use in the pool for 1 1/2 years - not a hint of a problem! There was always a beep that said 'battery low' which told me I needed to recharge. When one day it didn't recharge as usual, and since I didn't know if the problem was my computer, or the cable or the device itself, I went to my local Apple store. With their own special cables and technology, they figured out that it was the Shuffle itself. Interesting, they told me that these devices are/were never really waterproof and that's why they don't sell them; they said that possibly there is a 'coating' put on them to make it waterproof, but that it doesn't continue to last. At the Apple store they said - there was really no such thing as a totally waterproof product! ...I then contacted Amazon about this past purchase by a third party seller, AudioFlood. Apple was willing to give me a partial refund of $93 [upon my return of the item] for my $124 original price. Even though this was all quite annoying, I liked and enjoyed the use of the product so much for the 1 1/2 years, that I ordered a new one and returned the first one. I hope this second iPod Shuffle works for more than 1 1/2 years! What I do wish, is that there was 'really' a fully waterproof item, that not only says so, but that Apple backs by saying a fully waterproof product exists.

Swimming workouts can get boring day after day, lap after lap. When I ran, I loved listening to music and remember how quickly the time and miles would go. I wanted the same with swimming. And I found it! I love this gadget! My waterproof shuffle is everything it's advertised to be and a little more. Easy to use. Small, convenient. Great sound. I had a problem with the Pyle headphones and had no sound on the left side......despite changing buds, and trying a number of remedies. I called Audioflood.com and reported the problem. They offered some of the solutions I had already tried and nothing worked. I sent them an email to follow up that nothing I tried worked and they immediately shipped me new headphones. The best service I've encountered in online or in person purchasing. Personnel is very friendly and helpful. I've been using the shuffle for about 3 weeks now without a hitch. Time flies with music in the pool. If you know someone who swims regularly this would be the best Christmas gift possible. And Audioflood.com is the best dealer there is for purchasing one!! Thank you, Audioflood.com! Signed..... one happy lap after another...... Four years later...... I love my shuffle. It's been my swim companion for 4 years, obviously now out of warranty. Recently it died. Contacted AudioFlood for suggestions, none of which worked. They sent me a pre-paid mailing label and I shipped it back to them. Techs confirmed it was troubled and not going to get better. I was poised to buy a new one, no questions asked. I received the bad news in an email....BUT their solution was to offer me a one-time courtesy of a free refurbished shuffle replacement! MOST AMAZING CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER! They are courteous, friendly, professional and obviously go one step beyond. As the title says....I'm a customer for life.