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The unit is reminiscent of the little portable tape players carried around in the late 1970's onwards, a little plasticy but perfectly practical for its purposes. Split along its long edge with a silver plastic, pop up, cassette door (the front edge having large Play and small Stop buttons). The lower, black plastic, "base" has all other buttons (Direction, Auto reverse, Fast Forward and Rewind) plus connection points for both USB out (cable supplied) and a standard headphone jack point - perversely, lying it down with the cassette "door" uppermost means that all of the button descriptors are upside down (not a deal breaker :)). The unit comes with a copy of Audacity (an open source audio software) on a mini-CD, but I used Magix Audio & Music Lab (commercial audio software) and would guess that it works with any competent audio software. The unit is identified as an USB PnP Audio Device in the Recording section of Sound devices (the speaker icon in your task tray) and shouldn't require any changes to settings to use it (mine is set as "Default Device" - I just unplug the USB to switch to another input source. To summarise, this is a great little unit for the price, does what it says on the box and works just fine, it loses one star only due to it's odd button descriptor arrangement (i.e. being upside down in normal use).Read full review
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I think you have to accept you have paid £10-15 for this and that is what you will get. I found that it was not strong enough to keep some cassettes playing although a cassette deck would have no problem with the same tape. Tried winding and rewinding but it struggled to do that under USB connected power. I was going to try batteries but felt that with my lack of progress tranferring my collection of 200 odd cassettes to PC, I was better off in the long run buying a proper cassette deck. It may well serve a purpose to some, but I just thought it was not up to the job. When I did get the odd tape playing, the sound was varied, and yet I am using the same PC connection with my freshly bought 2nd hand deck. If you have one of these with a DC mains unit and then probably a 3.5 jack to USB or decent alternative connection on the PC, you might be ok. I would say running off mains is a must if you have a few to transfer to PC.Read full review
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Very easy to set up and the enclosed instructions are clear and helpful. I'm a regular user of Audacity so didn't need to install the enclosed software. As with both LPs and cassettes it's a time consuming affair to transfer but worthwhile in the long run.
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Not much bigger than a cassette tape, works well straight off to Windows 10 without the software. Practice is needed with program, there's loads I haven't got round to using but basic is quite simple.
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Convert old cassettes to mp3 files easy to use. but editing software does require some extra learning to use it at an advanced level.built quality looks cheap and flimsy but ok for the job
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