BlumWay Portable Cassette Recorder Player, Audio Music Cassette Tape to Digital Converter Player with Earphone, No Need Computer

What a great tool! If you're like me, you may have tons of cassette tapes (remember them?) and if you are to transfer them to another device, you need other equipment to do it and sometimes they are just to big to be useful anywhere b'cept at home and often times you need more than one device to accomplish the goal of transference. Even some of the latter model cars don't have CD players in them but rather USB ports. Yup, even CD's are becoming a thing of the past. This is a tape cassette player complete with everything you may need for listening to old tape cassettes using battery power, plug in power, computer power. You can transfer cassette tapes to the computer OR just a thumb drive. Unlike some other devices out there that REQUIRE the use of a computer, this one does provides the option. I stuck a 128GB thumb drive in this thing and it worked. Some are limited to 32GB is why that's important. Now I can listen to my own choice of music in my car. I have a CD/Blue Ray DVD player slot in the console and changing CD's was a nuisance whether driving or stationery. Now I can just plug my thumb drive in the USB port and listen for hours. If you like just listening to cassettes on this (earplugs are even provided) you might invest in a tape cassette head cleaner.. Easy recording features a manual and automatic setting with the pressing on the pad of this device. You can even set the volume of the recorded piece. Plays one side only or continuous on both sides of the cassette. I just got this so I have no idea of longevity or craftmanship but this thing is surprisingly weighty for its size if that means anything. So far, as far as I'm concerned, WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE ABOUT IT!12 30 2020 Ok, I found what not to like about it. Maybe I got a bad one (it happens even with the best of products, right?) I had to return it as while it did play cassettes though maybe not the best of sound quality (but what would you expect $25) it didn't perform the feature for which it was intended which was convert the tape cassette onto the flash drive. I did purchase the drive that was advertised with this unit. It converted 1 1/2 songs and stopped recording onto the flash drive. Of course there is no way to tell whether or not it is, in fact recording until you review what you think you've recorded. I tried again with the unit plugged in to a power source (USB) and this time, nothing was converted. I tried another better quality flash drive. Nothing ended up on the SanDisk. I used both the manual and auto modes of recording and each time ended up with nothing on the drives. I tried recording just one side of the tape cassette and then just one song with both flash drives. Nothing. I quick formatted each drive and tried it again. Nothing. I then went the extreme and did a complete formatting both drives (took longer to format) and tried a final time with each. Nothing. BTW the directions are well written and easy to follow and I'm good at following directions. Yeah, I'm a man and I read the instructions. Sue me! Not a bad idea for converting tapes but now I know WHAT NOT TO LIKE ABOUT IT! Sorry BlumWay. This idea needs considerable reengineering, in my opinion.

The manual needs to have all the controls shown at the beginning, so that a person can quickly and easily copy a cassete tape to mp3 on a USB; the digital controls are not shown at the beginning with the analogue ones: otherwise I would not have wasted twenty minutes without any results. All the extra colorful artwork is a major distraction that conceals the small digital controls on the other side. The manual claims to have an automatic and manual mode, but I never found that. Please look at pictures on pages one through seven before you do anything, so you can understand how this device really works. This powerful and helpful device is not intuitive. I downloaded descript so that I could create a transcript from audio on an old cassette.

I'm about ten tapes into a 200 tape collection. Although Ive seen some bad reviews here and comments about it being 'cheap', I've found it to work great. A few tips can save you a ton of time. For most tapes I'm getting good sound quality, but a crappy tape will just come out crappy, what do you expect.1. Set the rotary volume dial on high or it will just record silence. It will blast through the headphones, but honestly do you need to listen while you record. Just use the headphones to check if the tape is playing and playing correctly.2. Use the power cord. Batteries run out too fast and a tape player on low battery never performs well.3. Set the loop button on one loop, not continuous. Otherwise it will keep recording the same songs.4. Use the auto function (hold converter ff (small circle on side) until light goes blue) if you want individual songs. Light green for one file for the whole tape. For auto function You will get one blank file for each tape. Also once in ten tapes I got a song that had a long blank intro. I used audacity to edit the mp3 and cut out the blank. Also one Joe Satriani song got cut into three parts cause he has a few pauses in the middle. You can use Audacity to splice the song back together or just label the part one and two.5. I use auto, hit play and hit digital record then come back and transfer the files to my laptop. If you get all the songs for one album in a folder and label one song, you can use groove to edit the data for them all by album.6. The door opens all the way with easy access to the playing head so its very easy to clean the tape head, a big problem I have had in the past.7. For old tapes, run them in another deck on FF once or twice to loosen up the reels and even out the tension. It will give a better recording after that.Overall, I'm impressed and the auto function really lets you get album files by song, just like you would ripping a CD. Next up, looking for a large SD capacity MP3 player to replace my 80G IPod Classic...

I ordered this converter to transfer 29-year-old recordings of family members reading children's books. The first unit I was shipped, after paying NEW prices, was obviously USED, scratched and lacking accessories and the instruction book. They shipped me another one. After learning how to use it (not an easy process) and attempting several recordings, it became apparent that this device is ONLY for transferring SHORT orginal material, like a 3 min. song. Longer recordings cut off. The volume could not be adjusted higher. Transferred recordings were hard to hear. Ended up taking my tapes to a professional to transfer. Now, they will not allow a refund with window caused. DISSATISFIED! Feel cheated!