- USB Cassette to MP3 Converter, Portable Walkman Cassette Audio Music Player Tape-to-MP3 Converter with Earphones, Volume Control, Auto Reverse, No PC Required

I like that it's easy to use and figure out This is what I originally wrote: However after a month, my fast forward button quit working, the auto reverse went haywire. Meaning the tape player would switch sides at random times in mid record. The worst was when it damaged two tapes. One time it snapped the film and one was damaged, but salvageable. The instructions said to go to the website if I have any issues, however, when searching for this tape player, there's no mention of it anywhere. UPDATE: The part about the website is true unfortunately. However, I'm about 90% sure it was a bad cassette that caused the issue NOT the converter. I'm going to do a test run on a dummy tape to make sure, but so far I may have jumped the gun on my previous statement out of frustration. FINAL UPDATE: Ok, yes it was a bad cassette that caused my issue. The cassettes in question were the Maxell UR 120s. IEC Type 1-Normal. They came in a red case and I bought and used them to record my radio shows in the late 90s early 2000s. DON'T put them in the converter especially if they're not rewound and have been sitting for a long time. That part of the tape was warped on mine and the converter ate them up. So what I did, was I used another cassette player from a boom box I bought new a few years ago. I connected the headphone jack to the aux on the converter and haven't had an issue since. I do recommend this converter. It's been a blessing for me because I was trying to avoid buying a laptop just for my project. I still use my fiancee's laptop, but only to empty my flash drive and transfer everything to an sd card so I can listen to it on my phone and rename the files their appropriate title. Thanks for reading this and good luck with whatever you plan on using this for.

So I really thought this was a dud and I was going to be sending it back today. When I played my tape on it i heard a hum that I didnt hear when I play it on another cassette player. So I figured the mp3 recording would pick up that loud hum but I made the recording anyway. I used the mypin USB stick that they sale as well. I also had a power adapter for it and used that instead of batteries. So I made the recording and listened to it on the mp3 player using the USB in the mypin machine and still heard the hum so I was disappointed 😞. So today I was going to gather everything up to ship it back when I realized I never put the USB stick into my laptop to see how it sounds. Well my first thought was why bother, what difference will it make. I WAS WRONG!!! No hum at all!! I dont know why and dont really care, I'm just glad I checked the recording on my laptop before sending things back! I'm so excited!!! I literally have HUNDRESDS of cassette tapes I would like to transfer and would like to order 2 or 3 more of these little machines. I hope this one wasn't just the luck of the draw and the others will be just as good as this one! Its so very easy to use even the least technical person on the world can do it. I use manual record because I want to use audacity and put my own breaks in later. Try this machine, Amazon has easy returns at the ups store if you dont like it. Just besure to put the USB stick in your laptop and check the recording you might be surprise how great it sounds. Most of my tapes are spoken word so I can't really speak to other types of formats.

> This ain't a resurrected "Sony Walkman". It is NOT a good choice as a simple portable cassette player. It is a bare-bones simple cassette player only (albeit, with the ability to convert cassette recordings to MP3 and record the tracks directly to your thumbdrive). It is NOT a cassette recorder (that is, it does NOT record to cassettes). It does NOT have a radio. It does NOT have a speaker (although you may use earphones or earbuds). It does NOT support WiFi. > This review specifically discusses using the automatic function of this player/converter to convert audiotape cassette recordings to multiple MP3 files (tracks) directly on thumbdrives, without using any software on your computer. > Although this player/converter does have a “manual” mode, the primary strength of this machine (as opposed to many of the other similar player/converters) is the automatic conversion of analog audio recordings on cassette tapes into multiple digital (mp3) tracks directly on your thumbdrive. When this player/converter works well in automatic mode (see below), it is probably the easiest method to convert cassette tapes to mp3 files and therefore is the best choice. But chances are that you won't get that lucky (see below). > If you want to do ANY other task, then you don’t need this, nor any similar player/converter. You can just use any old cassette player, an inexpensive audio patch cord, your computer, and free software (such as “Audacity”). > Or you can purchase very similar "Cassette to MP3 Player/Converters" (with various brandnames) which come with audio patch cords and the audio software (on CD and/or downloadable) for about the same price as this player/converter. Those player/converters offer more flexibility, because you are more in control. Therefore they are a better choice with problem cassettes, or for users with the time (alot of time) and the motivation to produce the highest quality conversions. > Using the automatic function, this player/converter will save each “song” or each sentence (e.g., of an audiobook) into a separate MP3 file (track). You have NO control over how the software selects tracts. If there is too short a gap between two songs or two sentences, they may be recorded in the same MP3 track. Tracts may vary from a few words (part of a sentence) to a whole chapter, depending on the level of background noise on the tape and the narrator's reading style. > CAUTION – In the case of audiobooks, I found that up to several seconds at the beginning of a sentence may be truncated at the beginning of each track. The first track from "side B" of each cassette will invariably begin with 3 to 5 minutes of silence. Often the last recorded track of a cassette will be a large empty file. Various other extraneous empty tracks may be recorded (but these are easily deleted). > How severe the truncation is depends on the quality of the cassette recording you are trying to copy. As a gross over-generalization, professionally-recorded cassette tapes from the 1990s or later (or recordings which have been digitally remastered), which have NOT been played many times, may transfer well with only a few short truncations at the beginning of some tracts. Older cassettes (even if commercially recorded), heavily used cassettes, cassettes which have been copied from other cassettes, or privately recorded cassettes, are much less likely to be converted well. In very severe cases, only the first few words of a paragraph or a long section may be recorded. > If you want to record vinyl records to MP3, DO NOT record the records to cassette tapes, and then try to convert the cassette tape recordings to MP3. Instead, use an audio patch cord from your record player (or amplifier/receiver) AUX OUT to the AUX-IN (microphone in) of your computer and audio software (such as “Audacity”). You need an amplified source, but don't set the volume too high -- you'll need to experiment a little. Alternatively, you can probably use an audio patch cord from your record player (or amplifier/receiver) AUX OUT to the AUX-IN of this player/converter, but I have not tried this. > If you want to convert an Audio CD to MP3, DO NOT use this player/converter. Instead use Windows Media Player to "rip" the recording directly to MP3. A digital "rip" is much faster and will be much higher quality. --- If you want to copy a CD containing music or audiobook files which are already in MP3 format, then no conversion is necessary – you can copy them to a to your computer by simply dragging and dropping (or "copying and pasting"), and then copy them to your mp3 player, cell phone, etc. --- I think that Windows Media Player will burn audio CDs from mp3 recordings if you prefer to use a CD player which does not play mp3 recordings directly (some CD players do support mp3 recordings). > If you want to make new, original, MP3 recordings (or record a radio broadcast, etc.), DO NOT use this player/converter. The most convenient method is to use any "MP3 player" (many <$20), or a cell phone, or a tablet, or a portable computer which has a built-microphone and an audio recording feature (most do). EVALUATION > In addition to the often poor "snipping" of "songs", "sentences" or "paragraphs" into separate tracks, the "automatic" operation of this player/converter is extraordinary illogical and obtuse (see below). Why can't they have a "auto/manual" switch? Why can't "record to USB" be the default when the cassette is playing and a thumbdrive is plugged in? Why can't the recording controls (and indicator lights) be on the front or top of the player? When the player is in recording mode, why can't the volume automatically default to an appropriate fixed level? > This player/converter is not built for hard use. It works well enough sitting on your desk if you have a light touch and don't drop it. But it is NOT portable in the sense that it is likely to survive being carried around in a coat pocket for a couple of weeks to listen to cassette tape recordings, or used in a car, or used within 20 feet of a child, or any even loaned to your brother-in-law. Although operated with great care, my first player/converter died after recording 10 audiobooks. I'm now on my second player/converter. HOW TO > Cassette preparation. IMPORTANT (Do NOT skip this step). Holding the cassette in the palm of your hand slap it hard several times flat against a hard surface (such as a desk or table top). Turn it over and repeat. This aligns the tape in the cassette so that it will move with minimal friction (and is therefore less likely to jam or autostop prematurely, and will extend the life of any cassette player). > Set the volume loud (doesn’t have to be quite the maximum). It is a good idea to tape the volume knob in place with blue painter’s tape so that all of your recordings will be at the same volume level. > Set the silver “auto-reverse” switch on top to “auto-reverse” (sorta a backward C), NOT to “continuos play” (sorta a long flat O). The player is shipped in the "continuous mode", so you MUST switch it to "Auto-Reverse". You may want to tape the switch in place with blue painter’s tape. > Plug in the player to a USB power source (not supplied), such as your computer, with the supplied cord. Do NOT install batteries. Although the player will nominally operate on batteries, for recording to mp3 you need an absolutely constant power supply. > CAUTION – Beware that if you use your computer USB power supply, the power may cut off if the computer goes into sleep mode. If you hear a buzzing sound in your recordings, the fault may be a defective USB power supply. If so, try a different USB power supply. > Plug a small capacity (e.g. 500mb to 16G) thumbdrive into the USB port of this player/converter. Nominally, this player/converter will recognize thumbdrives up to 32G, but it will NOT record to my 32G SanDisk thumbdrive. Thumbdrives which have a flashing LED when recording are desirable, to make it easiest to monitor the process. > Install the cassette in the player on "side 1" (i.e., with the “side 1" label showing), and rewind (using the silver button on top), if necessary, to the beginning of the tape. > Press the BLACK “>>” button on the BACK of this player/converter until the green light on the back (just above the “+” button), changes from green to blue (this takes 5 seconds, but it seems like much longer). Note, the green light will not be on unless you have a thumbdrive installed. > Press the silver PLAY button (on top) all the way down until it catches and the tape starts playing. > Press the BLACK “o||” button on the back until the blue light on the back starts flashing (which means that MP3 tracks are being recorded). If the blue flashing light turns back to a solid light after a few seconds, then mp3 recording has stopped (even if the cassette is still “playing”), probably meaning that there is an issue with your thumbdrive. > It is a good idea to make little sticky labels to identify the ">>" and “o||” buttons. > Set this player/converter on a soft surface (to absorb vibration), best leaning back at a slight angle, and let it run until it finishes. It will automatically stop when it has recorded BOTH sides. In the window of the this player/converter, if the tape hub is turning CCW (counter clockwise), then side 1 is playing (being recorded). If the tape is turning CW (clockwise), then side 2 is playing (being recorded). > You can use the supplied earbuds to monitor the recording process, but try not to touch or move the player while it is recording. > If no “TAPEMP3” folder exist on the thumbdrive, it will automatically be created, and the first track recorded will automatically be named “FV0001". As long as you have a thumbdrive plugged-in which contains the folder “TAPEMP3”, which contains tracks, additional new tracks will continue the numbering. That is, if the last track in the “TAPEMP3” folder is "FV0021", then the next track (even from a different cassette, even days later, will be automatically named/numbered "FV0022". If you want to start the numbering over again from zero (or, more precisely, from “FV0001"), then copy the tracts you want to your computer and then delete the tracks (or the entire “TAPEMP3” folder) from the thumbdrive. > (My procedure is to rename the finished “TAPEMP3” folder of the first cassette to "C01", and then convert the second cassette, which will automatically be named “TAPEMP3” , which {when finished} I rename to "C02", etc. When I've converted all the cassettes of an audiobook, I copy the "C01, C02, C03", etc folders to my computer and then erase all the folders on my thumbdrive. If each cassette is recorded separately, it is easy to find empty tracks to delete, and if there is some problem with the recording of a specific cassette, it is easier to fix.) > Listen to the newly recorded mp3 tracks in your computer. If there are extraneous tracks, particularly at the beginning or end of the tape, delete them. Be VERY careful – often tracks begin with long stretches of silence. At the very least, listen to the first 10 seconds, the middle 10 seconds, and the last 10 seconds of a track before you decide that it is blank and may be deleted.

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Todo perfecto Lo descambie por que no tenia la funcion de reproduccion sin cascos Pero la grabacion que era lo esencial muy buena El producto si lo desea solo como convertidor es perfecto si lo desea tambien para reproducir puede hacrlo con cascos o con altavoces

Da tempo cercavo qualcosa di semplice per convertire i miei vecchi nastri mixati in digitale senza bisogno di costose schede audio e software elaborati di trattamento del suono. In definitiva l'apparecchio ha un ottima qualità del suono e consente un immediato uso delle funzioni principali. L'ho provato anche in modalità di registrazione da fonte ausiliaria in quanto non credevo che funzionasse ma ho scoperto che collegandolo all'uscita del mixer mi consente anche di convertire in modo rapido anche vecchi vinili.... Certamente la qualità del suono è limitata a 128k ma per ascolto in auto o in casa è più che ottima x chi vuole una conversione in qualità professionale puo certamente usare altri sistemi... ma ricordiamoci che la fonte del suono rimane una cassetta o x i più smanettoni un disco in vinile collegato ad un mixer, non serve per registrare da fonte digitali... Che dire è un walkman che registra e legge anche gli mp3 con un uscita ausiliaria che in registrazione diventa anche ingresso ausiliario, direi proprio che per trenta euro è un ottimo acquisto... quasi quasi ne compro un altro e ne tengo uno come registratore fisso all'uscita del mio impianto.

Super!! Vraiment contente!! Pouvoir avoir en numérique aussi facilement l'audio d'anciennes k7! Bon le son est pas super extraordinaire et sa dépend beaucoup de l'état de votre k7... mais sinon très facile utiliser! S'alimenter avec soit piles, soit avec un câble comme pour un téléphone portable. Possibilité de mettre un casque tout en enregistrant. Nan vraiment super moi je l'ai fait sur une clés usb, ras!

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