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- #23,382 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
- #26 in Portable Cassette Players & Recorders
Ripbc
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2025
It worked for a short time and then very little volume. I tried cleaning the head and using different tapes and no improvement. I tried the tapes in another cassette player and they played normally. I SEND AN EMAIL TO THE SUPPLIER CONTACT ON A CARD THAT CAME WITH THE UNIT.After contacting the supplier they sent me a new one without asking for a return of the old one. That is great service. If the new unit continues to work without a problem I will change the rating to 5 stars.
Marc C.
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2025
Such a great little tape cassette player. I played my old cassette tapes that I've had since the '80's & 90's on it!
Chan L.
Reviewed in Singapore on January 14, 2025
Able to record from SD card to cassette . Use it to make my mixtapes . Only in mono . Sound quality acceptable .
Hypercussion
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2024
I'm a musician and have boxes of music I recorded on cassettes years of live performances. I wanted to copy them onto my computer and convert them to MP3. Yes, I know there are probably better ways of doing this but I didn't have a cassette player and for $38 I figured I'd give this a try. First off, don't think you are buying a plug and play solution here. It's not. And after spending hours trying to get the USB audio out signal recognized on a Windows 11 computer and reading a lot of support articles on the Audacity software forum, I learned that it doesn't work well or often at all with Windows 11. I have MACs also and tried a simple test with Quicktime audio recording. That worked but the audio was just horrible, very low volume and muddy. I was about to give up when I tried going from the headphone jack of the cassette player into the line in of my Windows sound card. That worked and the audio quality is acceptable but I can't hear the output since I'm using the headphone jack, so I have to record entire sides of a cassette at once and edit them once done. Overall, I'll probably keep this since it was so inexpensive but again it's not a complete solution by any means, might work, might not, and if I knew it was this much of a hassle I would have never purchased it and likely tried another approach. I still might.
TJ Malama
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2024
This is the second Gracioso Cassette Player Converter that I have purchased. I purchased them for the soul purpose to convert an entire audio cassette to MP3 with out using a computer. After a little trial and error I was able to convert 14 cassettes, front and back to MP3's (28-24min files) that were saved on the 32 gb USB drive I had inserted into the deck. The procedure I used was first with the USB drive inserted I would make sure that the selection switch on the side of the deck was set to "tape off" position. Next insert the tape and press play, wait till I could hear the audio start, press the MP3 record button • on the top of the deck till the red record light showed, listen and wait for the audio to stop (usually about 24minutes) press the MP3 record button • again till light went off, turn the tape to the other side and repeat. But the 15th cassette I tried to convert the deck would not record any audio being played from the tape, it now started using the built-in mic. I used the exact same procedure as I used for the pervious 14 tapes, but now the MP3 record light would all of sudden turn blue, the audio from the speakers would stop even though the tape was still playing. When I pressed the MP3 record button now to stop recording the blue light went off and then I could hear the audio from the tape again. It seemed that the blue recording lite indicates that you are recording live audio from the built in mic not the playing tape. Thinking it may be the tape I tried it again using one of the tapes I had previously converted but no luck the deck would no longer record from the tape audio only the mic. So because it was working I I thought the deck just went bad I returned it and purchased another one. But the newest one won't convert any tapes as a matter of fact, as soon as I push the tape play button the MP3 record light turns blue in about two seconds, and it won't record any audio from the tapes at all. I gave 2 stars not 1 because it does do a OK job of playing cassette tapes if all your planning on doing is listening to them.
Richard McCain
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2024
This thing works just like the old cassette recorder I used to have. It's just as heavy and clunky, and you can record to a cassette with a microphone. But is has one important advantage: a built-in digital recorder that will write to an MP3 file on a USB drive or SD card. I use mine to convert old interview recordings to digital, and for that it is really handy. Load the tape and press play. Press the record button on the digital control, and you are done. When the tape ends, it will automatically shut off. You don't have any control over filenames, so keep a good list of what you have recorded - you can always use your computer to rename the files later.
K. Smith
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2024
I spent a bit of time fiddling around with all the ports trying to input audio into different sources with no success. Finally I found a video on YouTube that explained how to do it. Using the USB C charging port you can connect out with the supplied USB C to USB C cord and digitize with any device. I didn't realize I needed to use that port, as I thought it was strictly a charging port. You do need to install four C batteries since you no longer have a power supply but that is no thing but a chicken wing. I could easily record into my laptop using Audacity. I recorded into my iPhone and iPad using the built in Voice Memos app to capture the audio, and was able to handily export that into sound the sampling app I working with (Koala) and start chopping. I didn't fuss with the USB thumb drive option or SD Card, but it looks easy enough with the extra controls on top of the player. For me C to C was the quickest way to get to my project and it worked like a charm. Very excited to digitize several decades of personal cassette tapes thanks to this inexpensive and useful device. Glad I bought it.
mindstage
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2024
Transferred many hours of family recordings without a hitch. Sturdy and well built. Good quality for voice, probably not the best choice for high fidelity music.
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