Boombox MP3 Conversion Cassette Tape Player Recorder AM FM Radio, Cassette to MP3 Digital Converter, USB Recording, Built-in Microphone, Big Speaker and Earphone Jack by AC or C Batteries

Well then, this will be a different kind of review... I'll start by confessing that this device did not meet my needs and it has been returned. Nonetheless I gave it a five star rating as an acknowledgement of the excellent customer support I received.My project is archiving a couple hundred rare-ish music cassettes by ripping them as MP3 files then storing them on the digital jukebox that blankets our home with music. I have been laboriously performing this using a high end Teac deck and the Audible app on a laptop, but the appeal of this little player was strong enough to catch my interest. Long story short, it is completely inappropriate for my purpose.To be fair, it works as advertised, but the quality of the MP3 analog to digital conversion is low grade, unacceptably so for serious archival use. Worse yet, there is a very awkward pause in the Recording To USB process that prevents it from beginning until your tape is already playing music. To begin recording to a USB thumb drive, you must first press PLAY and start the tape, then press and hold a small RecUSB button until a red recording light comes on. The light doesn't come on until audible sound is already playing from your tape. I can only vouch for this on the unit I have in hand, but Customer Support seemed to indicate this behavior was a Feature rather than a Bug.And that brings us to their Customer Support which was excellent! The documentation included a nice cart that provided an email address for support along with the promise of a quick response. I resorted to that immediately and repeatedly to get to the bottom of my questions and the answers were indeed quick in coming, accurate and complete.With that help, I was able to determine that this wasn't going to work for my particular needs, and easily arrange for a refund of my full purchase price.This device worked perfectly as designed, radio reception was strong and the sound quality playing a cassette was acceptable. It's a useful little boombox at a reasonable price. The only dealbreaker in my case wouldn't affect most buyers. The company explained what was going on and they cheerfully refunded my purchase. I have found that to be rare in these troubled times and so I reward this a five-star transaction.PS, I also suggested to their Customer Support that they update their listing to indicate the RecUSB delay. We'll see if they do so.-Grouchy

Easy and simple to operate. Got the job done without complicated instructions and apps to download. Loved the simple dials for volume control and locating radio stations. Liked the manual control for locating radio stations, without the irritation of digital demands.

After realizing I had over 100 cassettes, I wanted to digitalize them. Did a lot of looking and decided upon this particular product. First, I gave it a 4 star only because it did eat 3 of my cassettes and the first unit I received just stopped working. Returned for replacement and all went well thereafter. Got all of my cassettes transferred to USB. Now the product: Very Low Tech but I actually found that rather refreshing; editing is almost an impossibility so I made sure all was ready before hitting the record button; and no control over recording volume. The final recording was actually pretty good. Okay, not complaining. It did the job and now I have a nice little boom box for my Jeep and Boat.

I purchased this device to convert audio recordings on cassette tapes to MP3 files on a USB stick. It will not reliably do this. It records for a small amount of time (in my trials, anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 minutes) and then the record light goes off and it stops recording. When you try to play the generated MP3 file with Audacity it says it does not recognize the type of file. Windoes Media Player can successfully oprn and play the MP3 file but there will be a vatriable number of 'skips' in the file which were not there on the audio recording. If you manually stop recording before the device stops itself (for whatever reason), then it does produce an MP3 file that Audacity can open and play. I have tried half a dozen different USB sticks, all empty and formated as FAT32, and all between the 4 and 32 GB that was recommended. Still the same problems. It's a good radio and cassette player but it can't reliably convert cassette audio recordings to MP3 files. Just $43 wasted.

I am mainly using this to convert old tapes to mp3. I have now converted 23 tapes and the cassette player has now destroyed 3 of those tapes. The first two I managed to get out, but the third is stuck in the unit, see picture.However, I like the functions and features so much that I will give it another try, I will return it for a replacement hoping that I just got a bad unit this time.I received a replacement and the same thing happened again. I was able to convert two tapes, but the third got stuck in the machine, just as with the previous unit, no way to get it out, see second picture. I want this to work so badly but enough is enough. Nobody else has complained about this, what am I doing wrong? There is only one way to insert the tape...This time I will return and try a different brand.Update 10/26-23. I looked and could not find another brand that I liked, so I decided to give it yet another try before I send it back a second time. All of the tapes that I convert are 50 years old and have been properly stored but not been touched in all those years. May be that was a problem? I decided to fast forward/rewind each tape a couple of times before converting to MP3, and since I started that I have converted 51 tapes without an issue. And this is on the same second unit that failed on tape 3 when I first tried it. So, I am changing the rating to a 5! When I think about it, it does make sense that after being stored for 50 years, the tapes need to be loosened up a little.