Small Cassette Tape Player, USB C or SD Card Audio Cassette to Digital Converter Recorder, Record to Cassette/Computer/SD Card via Mic, LCD Display, Loud Speaker, Headphone Jack,16GB SD Card

Minimal instructions but not too difficult to follow. Worked flawlessly. Converted 4 cassette recordings to digital easily and quickly. Sound quality was excellent and much better than I expected.

This is the 4th converter I've tried and the first to last more than two months (hence, 5 stars). I've had it for just over 4 months now and have digitized 33 C90/C110 cassettes (with 150+ to go). But you must use the micro SD card. The description & instructions are somewhat contradictory as to whether you can connect directly to your PC. You can't; not to a MacBook anyway. Instructions say the power cord will not pass thru the signal, so I tried a double-ended USB cord. It connected, but only in mono'. However, now that I'm accustomed to the SD card shuffle (my Mac doesn't have a micro SD port so I use an adapter), I prefer it to the direct connection of prior units. I had a problem with Audacity not reading the files (even though Music/ iTunes could) but the solution to that was to erase the SD files after transferring them to the computer.All my cassettes are 30-40 years old; early on it ate a few of them but I was able to salvage and redo them. No problems recently, but buy & use a cleaning kit.The speaker is very tinny but adequate for monitoring recording.I don't think it as Dolby (no TM logo) but you can use Audacity's Effect/Noise Removal/Noise Reduction function to clean up recordings: first, highlight a section of dead air (between songs) containing the noise, click Get Noise Profile, exit, then highlight everything from Start to End, go back into Noise Reduction and click OK. Sometimes, it helps to do it twice.

I got this to transfer some old cassettes to MP3 format... mainly non-music recordings (family get togethers, etc.), but also some 90s rock music tapes. I tried both methods (card and computer). While I believe that recording to the card was the easiest method, it also lacks in quality. Might be fine for dialog-only tapes, but the quality for music is pretty bad. You cannot choose 320 kbps... it automatically records at 128 or 192. I forget which. Far as I am aware, there is no way to change that. But you can record to your PC / Audacity software at 320 kbps. So, the sound quality is much better therein. The only downside it that it is far more involved, this method. Takes more work and time. In the end, it did what I hoped it would do... transfer some old silly family gathering tapes (from 1996) to files that everyone could listen to on their phone, iPod, PC, etc. I transferred one rock music tape also, but the sound quality was not that great, even at 320 kbps mp3 format. But that could be from the state of the actual cassette itself. Possibly degraded over time. Will try another tape one day and will update this review if necessary.

Works as a tape player but that's about it. The thumb drive didn't work. The MicroSD keeps saying "NO" in the indicator which means the player doesn't think a card is in the unit.After trying two different recording softwares, a couple of different memory devices, numerous cords, every possible combination of input/output, computer setting for sound options, I have finally gotten this recorder to record something. But, it still doesn't make sense why everything quit working. The tape recorder didn't recognize either the USB thumb drive or the microSD card that was supplied to it. That part still won't work separately from the computer. But, as long as I can get what I need done then that is all that matters.Last update: I figured out why the unit would not record with Audacity to begin with. Hopefully this will help others. When the unit is first plugged into the computer and you set up your HOST/PLAYBACK/RECORDING DEVICE, the unit is not visible as an option as it should be. You have to play a tape and while a tape is playing under AUDIO SETUP run RESCAN AUDIO DEVICES. It will bring up USBAUDIO2.0 as options that weren't there previously. Then you use that as your recording device. It now works consistently.

This is a quality easy to use cassette copying recorder that is very easy to use and it has very good sound quality. There are easy to follow directions right inside the box. I was looking for something like this for sometime and after trying this unit, I did purchase another one. You can use batteries or use the power cord supplied. This is a good unit for the price.

Product is very cost effective. Transfers to SD card works very well. Cassette playback is ok, not as good as the higher end units but thats to be expected. But, here's where it goes south for me, recording to the cassette is very noisy, regardless if your using the mic or SD card as a source. Maybe I had a defective unit, but it sounded like the noisy mic channel was open regardless of the record source selected. That was the dealbreaker for me. If you just transferring from tape to SD, that worked and was easy to do. Speaker was ok, just good for verifying audio, not quality listening.

After returning two because they didn't work, even a little bit, I got this one and it works great -- perfectly. I have to get old audio tapes converted to digital format for uploading to the Web. Lots of edits and this little player worked flawlessly.

I wanted this tape player to convert old cassettes of my college choir to a digital format. Easy to use and the songs sound great