Jooki Player review: a confusing kids' Spotify speaker

Can connect to Spotify for an extended library of songsFrustrating app experience and sometimes lacking instructionsOn the whole, Jooki Player is a fine product. But it's not as straightforward as it may seem , and that's what's most frustrating. Some of that is due to how Spotify allows devices to connect to its service, but not all of it. There are some redeeming qualities about the speaker, but I think it makes more sense to point out its missteps first.

This is how I came to find that the instructions in the app are lacking, or were when I went through the process, and not fully updated to include this new second-generation Jooki Player. Eventually, I figured out that my phone and the speaker needed to be on the same Wi-Fi network to see each other. All of this may sound simple in hindsight, but when a child is staring at you waiting for their new gadget to be ready, nothing is obvious.

The tokens for the Jooki Player are different colors, with hard rubber on one side and plastic on the other.To get the speaker and the music service working together you need to open the Spotify mobile app, select the speaker icon to send audio to a different source and then select the Jooki speaker. That makes it a destination for music from the mobile app for the specific playlist that is playing.

There are some other minor inconveniences, such as the order that songs play in token-linked playlists. Maybe less minor is that the product didn't live up to the full 8 hours of its quoted battery life. Kids can plug it in and use it like that, but then it's tethered to that spot. But, without belaboring the point, I never found the Jooki Player to be a set it and forget it kind of product—which most people looking at it will likely be hoping for.

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