ReshowCassette Player – Portable Tape Player Captures MP3 Audio Music via USB – Compatible with Laptops and Personal Computers – Convert Tape Cassettes to iPod Format (Silver)ClimatePartner certified

Great little player . I had loads of old cassettes and they are now MP3's on my PC . Very easy to use one lead takes signal to PC and powers device . Really good buy

Good but overpriced, easy to charge,sound quality is good. Good gift idea! Hope this helps....

I am pleased with the player.

To begin with as frustrating as one can get! Redownloaded my audacity to make sure up-to-date enough (I've created 1000s of podcast episodes with it). Then followed instructions. Recording on audacity only worked v briefly twice & then told error. Also tried on QuickTime player (as I have apple) & all I got was high-pitched bleeping sound which told in instructions could be a prob! Another reason not to be persuaded by cheap price to buy when made in China!Several hours later!!!! I worked out that if on Audacity I pressed 'audio setup' & clicked on 'rescan audio device' the thing would then sync, so I've moved review up to 3 stars from 1. But defo not straight-forward

If anybody has experience with a Recorder that offers direct USB output (which delivers a much cleaner signal than one that goes through analog audio channel) AND works as advertised, I'd be very grateful.RESHOW RECORDER REIVEW1. FLIMSY BUILD - ’Nuff said.2. LABELS ON CASSETTE FLAP PRINTED UPSIDE DOWN. Making you think you’re playing Side A when you’re actually playing Side B.3. CONTROL SWITCH LABELS UNREADABLE. They are small and lightly embossed in the cheap metal. You must hold the recorder up to a bright light to create shadowed letters that you can read with a magnifying glass.4. REWIND SWITCH DOESN’T POP OUT WHEN REWIND IS DONE.Requiring you to peer closely (I have to use a flashlight) to determine if the spindles have stopped spinning.5. REQUIRES 5 VOLT ADAPTER that’s not included.6. Instructions recommend you download Audacity to capture the audio signal. The current version, 3.2.x, works brilliantly for high-end audio editing. It does not work so well capturing audio signals on older computers, even using Windows 10. Fortunately, I have an old ACER running Windows 8.1 and Audacity 2.1.2 that works brilliantly.7. CONTINUOUS / SINGLE-SIDE SWITCH DOES NOT WORK.No matter how you flip the SINGLE SIDE RECORD / CONTINUOUS switch, the unit will not stop and will continue recording until presumably, there is no more storage space left on the disk.This is the deal breaker for me I would put up with the myriad shortcomings in the Recorder the digital signal was clearer than with my high-end Sony tape deck. Unfortunately, There is not enough time in my life to check and see when The A Side has stopped recording and flip the cassette over.

Does what it says on the tin easy transfer. Small and easy to use.

This player is easy to use if you have a little IT know-how. I’m using it to back up some old audio tapes (some 20-30 years old) onto CD. I’m delighted with the quality of recordings that I’m able to produce. Some reviews I read say that it picks up laptop motor noise. More modern laptops are solid state, so there’s little or no noise to pick up. Other reviews mention the cassette door is flimsy. I have no issue with it.I’m still learning, but here are a few practicalities:You need Audacity software or similar, which is free to download. Reshow comes with a CD-ROM, but you’ll get a more up-to-date version by downloading.Instructions say to plug in the player before opening Audacity and recording. Experience is that you need to wait until your laptop recognises it as a connected USB device. That can take a couple of minutes. If you don’t wait, the pop-up notification seems to create a blank in your recording.There are some handy features in Audacity that can enhance the sound quality significantly before committing it to CD. Best to google for a bit more detail.It’s worth downloading the Audacity help files.“Noise removal” allows you to select a portion of low-level hiss at the start of the cassette. You can then remove that from the entire recording without detriment to the recording. You then get true silence in the breaks in conversation or between tracks.The Audacity graphic equaliser (Graphic EQ or Equaluzation) can be used to enhance sound quality. My wife had stopped listening to her oldest cassettes because the sound was to dull. By exploring the settings, you can bring tired recordings back to life. There’s loads of guidance on the internet.Click removal - although there’s an automated click removal that allows you to adjust the sensitivity, I’ve not found a combination of settings that works well enough without degrading the recording (detecting and removing false clicks). I find listening to the recording on Audacity, stopping when there’s a click - you’ll see these as a thin vertical line - zooming right in, selecting and deleting them. Painstaking work but produces a recording of better quality than the original if you have the necessary patience and determination. That is, of course, unless you want to keep the clicks, pops and hiss for nostalgia!Audacity has an undo and redo function. Nevertheless, it’s worth saving as a new version from time to time to avoid losing your work. Up to you - you can always delete the unwanted versions when you’re done.You can add tracks that your CD player or MP3 player will recognise. This is through adding “labels” to your Audacity recording. I’ve found this creates a slight pause during CD playback, which isn’t detectable if you put them in an existing gap, i.e. not where there are any background sound effects or music. When exporting to a WAV or MP3 format to burn to CD, you need to then use the Export Multiple option. Then you get multiple tracks to burn to CD.Audacity doesn’t have a CD burn function. I use Windows Media Player to burn the exported Audacity tracks to CD. One quirk is that the files often copy across to Windows Media Player out of numerical sequence. Move them back into order before burning.The Reshow cassette player has an auto reverse function. Yes, it just seems to keep going until you stop it, so you need to keep an eye on what’s happening. Some older tapes don’t play well when reversing direction. It’s a simple thing to do - you might get better results if you record the first side, stop and flip the cassette, then record the second side with the cassette playing in the same direction. Just leave Audacity recording whilst you’re turning the cassette. It’s easy to find and delete that section later. You then have one recording to edit and no files to join.If you go for the product, I hope it works at least as well for you as it is for me.And, no, I’m not on a commission for this feedback :o)

Allas described