- Microware ezcap USB Cassette Capture Cassette Tape-to-MP3 Converter into Computer PC, Laptop Stereo HiFi Sound Quality Mega Bass Audio Music Player with Earphone

My father had a vast collection of audio cassettes. For long time i was planning to digitize them. After some research i found it. It is pocket friendly and gives good result too. Type C cable is also bundled with it. You just need a computer and Audacity software. I tried both line in and usb recording. USB was the winne.r If anyone is planning like me. It is a must buy.

This is the best gift I got for my mom, even though we can search and download old songs but nothing can beat the nostalgia of personal remixes and mixtapes! She can now hear her own remixes. Play on speakers using aux even! Very happy with the quality. Value for money 10/10 Has been a few days now and performance is great so far

it's good enough. but if you can spend extra 1-2K, you should get something which can record audio as well. this doesn't record anything.

Microware Ezcap USB Cassette Player Capture Cassette Tape-to-MP3 Converter into Computer plays the cassettes but the converter cable is only a charger. The advertisement is misleading as it does not convert the audio to MP3

I strongly disliked the product. Earlier I purchased this product but that was also defective. This is the second piece that was found defective. So I strongly request you to check the product completely and then dispatch the product to the customer. I hope that from now onwards you will do this. Thanks

The device serves the purpose. It records as it is. Further if required, you may need to refine the recording (digital mastering) for fine tuning. (As you can hear 3% the tape reel sound or due to damaged cassette). This is negligible but if you gonna put the songs online you need refining.

Most useful for convert your old tap cassette to MP3 format. Value for money and ease of use. Just like a walkman.

Good performance. Interfacing with Audacity need some practice.

Perfecto para mí papá que tiene su colección de cassettes y no tiene donde reproducirlos, tiene un CD y un cable USB para la computadora

I'm using this on my iMac running OS 10.10 (Yosemite). No problems, and the sound quality is as good as one expects from cassette tapes. It is comparable to the sound quality from some tapes I transferred to MP3 several years ago when I still had a high quality cassette tape deck I could hook up to my computer. Here are a few little tweaks to the helpful Mac/Audacity instructions given in an earlier review by M, and instructions for using an alternative app, Audio Hijack Pro. Audacity: Hook up the player via USB, download Audacity 2.0.5 (free), In Mac System Preferences - Sound - Input - select "USB PnP Audio Device" as the device for sound input. Start a cassette playing. Adjust the Input Volume slider in the window to the next to last tick mark. Adjust the cassette player output with the control on the cassette player so the loudest passages do not go to the maximum on the Input Level display. [Note that the only reason to set the Sound preferences here is to adjust the volume. You can set the Input back to the default after you have done this.] In Audacity, go to Preferences/Recording/Device and select USB PnP Audio Device. If it doesn't show up there go to Transport/Rescan Audio Devices and try again. Under Transport turn off Overdub and turn on Software Playthrough. When playing your tape, press the round red "recording" button in the Audacity window; without pressing it I couldn't hear the playback. When song is finished, press the square brown "stop" button. To save the recorded song, go to File - export - and name your file and format. Given the inherent sound quality of cassette tape, I use MP3 128 kbps. Higher quality formats are overkill and will yield larger files. Although Audacity works OK, I am using Audio Hijack Pro because it has a couple of advantages. It lets you hear what's playing before you start the recording, and it can use sound activated recording to detect the gaps between songs and start a new recording for each song automatically. Although it is not free ($32) it is very versatile. It can record System audio or audio from any app or source on your Mac and also do scheduled recordings. Here is how to use it with this device. Set the volume level in System Preferences/Sound/Input as per the instructions above for Audacity. Open Audio Hijack Pro. Click on the + sign at the bottom of the left sidebar. In Source Type choose Audio Device. For input device select USB PnP Audio Device. It should appear in the sidebar. Select it. Select the Recording tab at the top and choose the format and file location. If you are going to use sound activated recording to create separate files for each song, Choose a Silence Monitor setting. The default for analog recordings is -30 dB, 2 sec. You may have to play with a Custom setting to avoid it detecting soft passages in the music as gaps between songs. I find -35 db, 2 sec works a little better most of the time.

This is a great to bring back your old cassette tapes was able to resurrect some of my old band tapes

It worked OK, until it just stopped working after about the 20th tape. It's very cheaply made and I was actually surprised it worked at all. The software worked fine with Windows 8 (also a surprise since it was made for a much older version). The recording quality was OK, not great but I doubt anyone would be expecting great things from a tape recording. For my very limited need of coping some old music that I couldn't buy on CD, it worked great. I just wish it had lasted a bit longer as I had a few tapes left to copy.

I had a box full of cassette tapes of old music programs and kids talking from our family from the 70's. I used free audio software (it comes with audacity and maybe another. I had already downloaded audacity prior to purchase (free online). It plugs right into your USB port on laptop or desktop and then once your computer recognizes it (if it doesn't, go to your control panel and add hardware), and you've opened the audacity software, you hit the play button on the machine, and the record button on the software and you're in business. You have to be sure to use the "export audio file" when you save it to save it as a more universally playable MP3 format...otherwise, in audacity, if you just save the file, you save it as an audacity file and others might not be able to listen to it. Then I saved all of those files to thumb drives to share with relatives. So for my project, it worked perfectly and the price is right. Be gentle with it though, this thing is made pretty cheap...the shiny parts that look like metal, are, in fact, painted plastic. For a short project, this worked great...I can tell that it would not last very long though...it is made very cheaply. Pressing the buttons repeatedly made me nervous...just waiting for one to break. I'll be passing it on to a friend for their archiving project. It takes a little practice to understand the software, but if I can do it...probably anybody can...I'm not that tech savvy. I had to redo a few things, but overall, it wasn't hard.