USB Cassette Player, Portable Walkman Stereo Tape to MP3 Converter, Audio Music Recorder to MP3 Digital File Converter with Earphones, No PC Required, Black, BR607

It’s a good cassette player. The only thing I would change is the latch for the door. It feels light, flimsy and like it could fly open and get damaged over time.

Image shows a USB drive. It does NOT come with one. Also shows on the package that it comes with it. The packaging says Bluetooth on the back. It does not have Bluetooth. Not sure why it says Bluetooth on the sticker when that isn't in the listing. It is very cheaply made. Lots of flimsy plastic inside where the cassette sets, hence the pricing. Definitely returning this product for not even remotely standing up to what was expected. Seems very easy to use, although other reviews say it is a bit tricky and takes some practice to separate songs. How can it claim one thing but others claim otherwise. Not even attempting to use this so it can go back in the same condition as I received it as. I would spend the extra money for a better quality, actual Bluetooth version. Unsure of battery life or sound quality. Please check other reviews for that information.

Overall great product, especially considering the low price! I love that this tape-to-mp3 converter doesn't require software to complete its job, though Audacity is still helpful in "cleaning up" audio and separating any tracks that got merged. Auto mode generally works well to produce crisp audio with the tracks separated as they should be, though occasionally it gets something wrong. I've had it utterly fail to record 3 tracks, but manual mode fixed that. Note that even if you have the player set to automatically switch sides of a tape, the converter will stop converting after the first side. I sometimes get some distortion with the recorded audio, but that's probably due to degradation of decades-old tapes and not the fault of the converter. The instructions, written in your choice of several languages, are pretty easy to follow but not the most intuitive, and the converter itself is a little idiosyncratic. Therefore, I highly recommend practicing conversion with a tape that you don't care much about until you get the hang of it. I always plug the USB charging cable into my computer rather than using batteries, and it works perfectly. I will note that the converter does NOT come with an appropriate USB drive, and it needs a (by today's standards) tiny drive in a very old format, so you might have trouble finding/formatting an appropriate flash drive if you don't happen to have an ancient one lying around like I did. For some reason the instructions for conversion have you plug in the headphones before maxing the volume and hitting "record," but if you try to actually listen with the headphones in your ears, you will deafen yourself. If your hearing is good, you'll probably still be able to hear the sound through the headphones with them just sitting near you.

I ordered this converter because I only have a few cassettes to convert so I didn't need a lot of features and didn't want to pay too much. I chose this one because it records directly from cassette to MP3 format onto a USB memory stick, which is not provided ,but which most of us already have or can get cheaply. The unit can be powered by two AA batteries or by a USB cable (provided), which is nice because the batteries will only provide about two hours of use (according to the maker). One minor complaint is that the headphone jack is very close to the USB port, which makes the jack a little hard to remove when a memory stick is plugged in. The unit itself seems well made but some parts (e.g., the cassette cover) feel a little flimsy. I'm not sure how much use it can take before starting to break down. As others have commented, the instructions aren't clear in some places so it took some testing to figure out how to use it. For example, when recording to the memory stick, you have to press the tiny REC button on the back after you start playing the tape, which makes sense. However, the instructions don't tell you you have to press the REC button again to end recording. If you just press the Stop button then remove the memory stick, the MP3 file isn't readable in Audacity. Once I got past that, it worked well. The audio quality of the conversion is pretty good, though it depends on the quality of the tape. I did notice, as others have mentioned, that there is a "tape hiss" when there is silence. One of the tapes I recorded was spoken word but it was hardly noticeable. Overall, however, especially considering the very reasonable price, these are all modest trade-offs. It's not the right tool for converting boxes of cassettes, but if you only have to use it occasionally, it's a good deal.

Worked exactly like I needed. Trying to transfer recordings from cassette tape to usb. Perfect.

It performs as advertised. However, I found the recordings to sound scratchy and squelchy, sounds that were not present in the cassette but created by the recording process. In other words, the recordings are worse than the sound of the cassette if one were listening to it merely on "play." The player feels delicate. It's cheap plastic. It's not something I would want to carry around with me. The buttons are not responsive. I have to put some muscle into pushing the play button down hard enough that it sticks in position. I also find the record button to be temperamental, not always recording when pushed. The cassette records easily onto a thumb drive (that's not included), which can then be plugged into a computer and moved to wherever you want. There's no downloading of programs. It comes with earbuds. However, only one side works for me. I bought the player to record a few cassette tapes, which I did. It's unlikely I'll ever use it again. For $20.00, it was an economical investment, and it's unrealistic to expect a high quality machine at this price point.

It’s very fragile and flimsy but it 100% will turn your old forgotten cassette tapes into mp3s without a problem. I used it to preserve old band demo tapes and it did it perfectly

For 20 bucks I can live with how cheap this is. I can live with the button sequence hoops you have to jump through to get it to work. It does work. It gets the tape into an MP3. Here's the big problem: It auto partitions the songs for you... I am trying to digitize a 30 minute speech. Because the tape is old it must be confusing the auto partition and it made my 30 minute audio into over 300 files. I imported the files into Audacity and lined them up end to end, but the files are missing the first word of each new file. So when you line them all back up, there are over 300 missing words and the audio sounds like it has hard edits. I wish I could turn auto partition off!