DIGITNOW 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

I have had a cassette since 1994 and have been looking to copy it digitally for a reasonable price. The DIGINOW surprised me how well the digital copy sounded. The headphones that came with it aren't the greatest, but the sound quality of the digital copy is great. Easy to use, the data transfer was easy, and it transferred it to a thumb drive so I can play it anywhere.

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.

It takes a bit of patience to make this thing work. It's will eat tapes so be aware of that when using it. Keep a watchfu eye on that. The conversions actually sound good except some recordings are cut short by a few seconds and some over-right by a few seconds. Using the functions are difficult so that's why I say be patient. The instructions aren't fully explained but are adequate enough because there are so many different languages on one sheet of paper as usual. You also need smaller sized data discs. I'm using a half gig and it works perfectly however it cannot read large data discs. One major problem is that it sometimes stalls on recording and is difficult to monitor for when it stops. Otherwise I can say it's a good purchase so far. Your never know lifespan of this gadget.

They lied about does not work this is just a regular cassette player.

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.

Works okay as long as you follow the 25 steps in the correct order. Operation procedures are pretty convoluted. For no extra cost they could streamline the functions. But it does enable me to move music from a Cassette to an MP3

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!