Reshow Cassette Player – Portable Tape Player Captures MP3 Audio Music via USB – Compatible with Laptops and Personal Computers – Convert Walkman Tape Cassettes to iPod Format (Silver)

The first cassette player I ordered was faulty (played a bit fast) but I emailed the company to find a solution. They were so quick at responding and sent me a replacement right away. It works so well and the sound quality is great. It is easy to use and love that I can record my tapes onto my laptop. The buttons are sturdy and the whole thing fits in my pocket easily. Would highly reccomend this product especially for the price. Get to listen to all my old tapes :)

For the price this is a good machine. You need to judge the sound quality with a NEW pre-recorded tape because older tapes do have they issues. I use both in this machine. I've bought two of these, the second was on a low price offer so I keep it for the future. The sound quality is good. What I would say is use some good headphone, a pair that gives good bass. The USB to power the machine works fine (take batteries out first). Transferring tape to digital also works fine. I use Quicktime to digitise tapes, it's quick and clean. I like that the door opens to one side, makes it easy to clean the tape head and rollers which I do every 4 or 5 tape plays. The two AA batteries last a good time, I use 2800mAh Rechargeables. If it helps these are the headphones I use: For travel/out and about Sony MDR-ZX110 don't let the price put you off the sound is really good. For at home use OneOdio A71 the bass is amazing and does raise the volume of the machine.

With the updating of old tapes to electronic Alternatives...ipod etc, this is a good way to do it. Tapes tend to wear out so this device enabled me to transfer my tapes to my PC where I could then move them on to my ipod. Easy to use once you get the hang of it. Helpful item.

I bought this for its main purpose, to digitise a large collection of old cassette tapes. As it will take much time and effort to transfer tapes, one would like to at least have a close to the original recordings on the tapes. Unfortunately, whilst the unit is easy to use, quickly recognized by my Mac laptop, after several attempts, I found the tape spooling mechanism/speed unstable. It is not noticeable with fast beat music, but when it comes to vocals or high pitch piano notes (jazz, blues), the singers would sound as though they can't sing with long pitch going off. This is an obvious issue of the tape spooling speed being unstable/inconsistent. Moreover, base portion of the sound spectrum comes right off, very tinny. I had to return it despite attempts. I have now bought a USB stereo sound grabber device instead and using it with my old JVC tape desk to do the same job; sorry to say sound quality is simply much much better despite being analogue. An honest opinion. For the low cost of the unit, its good as a cheap listening device or for the odd "not so important" cassette transfer; but definitely no for serious music recapturing.

*Update* The player has broken and only 1 spindle spins. This destroyed my tape and I can no longer listen to it. This happened after less than a month of owning this device. The video shows the issue. Original review is below. Firstly, this device can run off USB power alone. Which is great. However when doing so, there is a noticeable and loud “hum”/“buzzing” noise that affects the sound of music etc. unplugging the power and running off battery is better but still not great. The auto flip mechanism activates regardless of whether the switch to enable it is on or off. Super annoying. There are also times where the sound of the player itself are just loud and it refuses to play a tape. It stops by itself. After this it works, but still odd. The player is also subject to some wow and flutter. Overall, it’s a pretty poor cassette player. I imagine it would be even worse when digitising tapes.

Cheap and cheerful but actually works as it says and the BEST feature is the auto reverse. To transfer a cassette is simple. (1) insert casette at the beginning of side 1 (2) Fire up Audacity (checking you have set the record device to the cassette (PnP mic or similar) (3) Check recording level - easiest way press play on cassette and record on Audacity - when satisfied level is ok stop and rewind cassette and abandon Audacity project (4) Record for real - press play on cassette and record on audacity (5) leave for duration of cassette (90 mins normally). Player will play first side then AUTOMATICALLY play second side. When time up then press stop on Audacity and stop on cassette player. (6) Then in Audacity file - export audio - mp3 (7) now you have the file exported and saved as an mp3 file you can edit the existing Audacity file to chop bits out etc if required It really is that simple. Press play - press record then go make dinner - come back save as mp3

Used to digitise 5 minutes of speech captured on cassette tape 20 years ago. This process wasn’t straight forward proving challenging. However, it did eventually work. It is quite inexpensive, so for the money is reasonable.

With this great little product, I’ve been able to digitise all my old mixtapes that have been sitting, gathering dust, in my loft for decades. Sound quality is absolutely fine for my needs but what I did notice is that if the volume dial on the side of the device isn’t turned up to maximum, the recording is transferred quieter. So make sure it’s turned up full! The door to the device is a little flimsy so care would be advised when opening and shutting. Gentle hands, yeah. All in all a good little device that has brought me hours of nostalgia fun as I haven’t owned a tape deck in decades.

Great sound with a good headphone

Très bien pour lire et numériser d'ancienne K7.

Działa.

Si sente molto bene e c’è anche la possibilità di ascoltare la cassetta tramite usb-c collegato al computer o telefono (senza pile) ottimo acquisto

47年前の文化祭と、41年前の米国旅行時のFM放送を残しておきたくてかいました。手軽につなげられるのがとてもよかったと感じています。まあ生きてるうちだけどね。