PHILCO Digital Cassette Recorder – Portable Tape Player, Recorder & Cassette to MP3 Converter

EXCELLENT

Minha mãe adorou, bem prático.

My goal was to digitize some cherished cassette voice tapes I’ve kept for years, filled with family memories and special recordings. When the cassette recorder arrived, I set it up without any hassle and began recording. The device’s functionality was intuitive and user-friendly, making the process stress-free.One standout feature was the excellent audio quality—it captured the recordings with surprising clarity. After completing the digitization, I effortlessly transferred the files from the USB thumb drive to my computer and shared them with my family, who were thrilled to relive these moments.Overall, the process was seamless and efficient, and the recorder exceeded my expectations for its price. It’s a fantastic tool for preserving valuable memories, and I couldn’t be more pleased with its performance.

Artículo de pésima calidad el audio es muy malo

I bought this to transfer some old cassette tapes to digital format for preservation. You can attach a thumb drive to this unit while you're playing the tapes and it saves the audio in a digital format on the drive. The tape mechanism is good and the sound quality is also good. It even has a built in microphone if you want to use it as such. This thing is great, especially for the price!

I've been burned by "Record to USB" devices in the past so I was hesitant to order this. However, taking a chance and using the Instructions given in earlier posts [Robert H.], worth repeating here (below) I was able to easily encode a some audio tapes as mp3 on the USB flash drive (LED indicator on usb drive is highly recommended). The tapes I encoded were from the early 1990's and they still work [I do expect some - especially the consumer grade tapes - to fail when trying to play them now] but the recording levels are pretty high, and Audacity indicates clipping [images attached] but given the choice between a broken 30 year old tape and clipping, I'll take clipping. The dynamic range is only 12khz and based on the precipitous drop in the graph [see image] I think it might be the tape player. My test tape is long lost so can't verify. You cannot control anything about the mp3 output, audio level, bit rate encoding (it is 160kbps, pretty good) and file creation date (always 08/10/2018 1:00AM). Still, given my tapes are nearing the end of their 30 year shelf life this gives me a chance to preserve them and the quality of the algorithm is just fine for me and a lot of the noise is reduced since it is I suspect a direct encoding from the preamp output rather than from a noisy phone jack output [would have to look at the PCB board to confirm].Knowing the short half-life of these type of devices, their tendency to be discontinued after a production run and I have lots of tapes to encode I went ahead and ordered another.Things to note:(1) In my case, pressing STOP on the tape player will cut off power to the USB system (???) which will mean your flash drive will be interrupted and possibly corrupted. Press USB STOP before pressing TAPE STOP on your cassette tape [there are two banks of buttons - one for USB and one for TAPE] and this will close the file on your FAT32 Flash drive avoiding corruption, my file was fine but Windows complained and repaired when this happened for me. I'll probably get tired of watching the tape to stop the USB system, so I'll just deal with the occasional complaint when the tape auto-stops and if I see a file that is unrecoverable I'll update here.(2) The volume knob on the side only affects the playback from the speaker, it does not change the USB recording level so you don't have to audibly listen to the tape play to record it and it doesn't affect the recording volume.(3) It places the files in a directory called AB_REC, this likely means you won't be able to listen them on the tape deck unless you move them out of the AB_REC directory to the root directory, the instructions said something about them not being in directories to play back.Instructions from previous Posts Repeated Here: The instructions with the cassette player/recorder leave much to be desired. It is a matter of trial and error until you get the exact sequence to make a good recording from cassette tape to USB flash drive. I have included the instructions I use myself below for your use in successfully making a cassette-to-USB recording:1) Switch the "USB/Off-Tape" switch to "Off-Tape".2) Place an empty USB flash drive formatted to FAT32 in USB slot. Make sure it is snug.3) Press "Play" for cassette tape to start playing.4) Immediately after that, press the USB "Square" button until the green "Record" light flashes indefinitely. It may take a few tries to get this to happen. If this does not happen, no recording will be made at all.5) Note that the USB flash drive flashes (if so equipped; it is suggested that you get one that does) as it is recording from the cassette tape.6) When done, "Stop" the cassette tape from playing.7) Press the USB "Square" button to stop recording. It will stop flashing.8) The USB flash drive will now have an MP3 recording placed in a directory named "AB_REC" in a file named "AUX0001.MP3". (If you leave this on your USB flash drive, the next recording will automatically advance to AUX0002.MP3, and so on. Very convenient).

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Glad I made this purchase . Now I can enjoy my tapes from the 1980's in MP.3 format. PHILCO Digital Cassette Recorder is easy to operate.

I wrote some christian songs and I would like to save them on cassette.

It has horrible sound quality, but that’s not even what angers me. First, to record the aux cable had to go in “mic” for it to work for me? other wise it wouldn’t record. Second, the motor that sounds the tapes would stop through recording, or slow down and speed up, and sometimes stop fully and EAT THE TAPE. It didn’t just eat the tape once, it did it more than 4 times. I lost a 90 minute tape of music because of this. Luckily the tape was not a precious one. I spent about $30 on this and it was not worth it AT ALL. Its microphone quality is bad, the motor is bad, the sound quality is bad. It’s all bad. the only good thing about it is the looks of it. I wouldn’t like to be mad about it, but i am. I spent $30 of my money on this piece of crap, i do not recommend you buy it. Nonetheless, it’s your choice.

Sadly whilst it had power there was no audio. Returned to supplier.

I did not like that the SOUND quality of the device sounded awful. Th devices we bought long ago were much better. Sound was not clear on this from the start all from the moment I played it. I did not return because I desperately needed to learn a piece of music. Well, this device lasted less than a day. Want my money back.