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

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.

Maybe this is because of how I am using it, but... I connect the USB power and then connect the player to my desktop amp via a 3.5mm to RCA cable and there is a horrendous loud hum coming out of the speakers. I have tried several USB cables, USB wall plugs and even different wall sockets to see if the hum goes away and nothing seems to help (next I am going to try a power bank, so I will update this later). I have not tried batteries, I don't feel like driving to the store to get AA batteries.When I connect my IEMs, directly to the player, instead of connecting it to the amp I can still detect a hum in the background, not as loud as when connected to the amp, but it is still there. If I cannot resolve this issue (there is no tech support from the vendor) I may have to return this.Update #1: Connected a power bank to the player to see if the hum would go away and it did not (got a bit softer).Update #2: Connected the player via an AUX cable to an Analog to Digital Converter to so that I could connect it to my DAC via a TOSLINK cable and the overall sound got better. The hum almost disappeared I am not really sure what is causing it. At least now you cannot hear it if you are playing music, but you can still hear it in gaps between songs and if the music is very low (like some classical music can get).At this point I think I have a defective unit, so I will return and exchange it for a new one.Update #3: As mentioned above I returned the previous unit and got a replacement one. The second one does not seem to have the hum that I mentioned above while playing music, so I guess there was something wrong with that first unit. The hum is there, but only when there is no music playing and at a very low volume. Looks like the issue is the power coming from the USB cable is not shielded properly. That said once you press play it goes away, you cannot hear it during the empty lead or trail on each cassette side, nor on the gap between songs.

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.

Player does a wonderful job of playing my old music tapes. The batteries last a long time also. Very happy with this player.

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.

Pretty cool device for transferring cassette recordings to digital. Easy to use. Inexpensive.