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.

This device works real good on store bought tapes and standard recorded tapes . Note: this device cannot copy/transfer from High quality Chrome Oxide or High quality metalic recorded tapes to digital music. I have quite a few recorded cassette tapes that I made several years ago from vinyl Albums, the tapes work and play great but they are super high quality and this device cannot transfer the music to digital. I also found out that most of these types of devices have the same issue with transferring from high end quality cassette tapes, so this is a common issue for these types of devices.

I am so thankful for this device, the Blumway Cassette Tape to MP3 converter that uses a USB Flash Drive to record! Very easy to use with auto shut off when both sides of the cassette are complete. I like the fact that it isn't connected to the computer, and the stereo recording is a good quality. I use Audacity to edit the MP3 files, into separate individual songs or tracks, and delete the empty space in the middle while the cassette is switching sides.In 2015, I purchased a USB Cassette Capture device that plugged into the computer. At the time, I had Windows 7, and it worked great. Now with Windows 10, the device is not recognized by the computer and does not function. (Plug into a Power Outlet. Recording will be inconsistent using batteries)

I don't understand how in 2024 we can have cassette players that are lower quality than the cassette players from the 1990's.I understand the sound quality is going to be rough but the aux port doesn't work properly. I can't plug the cable in all the way or no sound comes out. I have to find the sweet spot so I can get sound out for 2 speakers. Otherwise It's not sound or just 1 speaker.The play button doesn't do anything half the time. The motor seems under powered to spin the cassette and I'm not even using batteries.Waste of money. Will return.