USB Audio Capture Card Grabber for Vinyl Cassette Tapes to Digital MP3 Converter, Support Mac & Windows 10/8.1/8 / 7 / Vista/XP

I have a box of old cassettes, mainly nursery rhymes and stories, that I would like to record to .MP3, but my mini-PC doesn’t have an input socket that would allow me to connect an analogue input. This seemed to be an ideal solution.I already had Audacity installed, and had a rudimentary knowledge of its use, so I ignored the mini-CD and instructions that came with the device, and simply connected it to an old portable cassette player at one end and to a USB port on my Windows 11 PC at the other.I changed the input in Audacity to “Microphone (USB Microphone)”, and started the cassette player. Everything looked OK, so I monitored the recording level via Audacity and adjusted it via the cassette player’s volume control and started recording. It worked fine.Because of the nature of the content I wasn’t really concerned about the quality, but without listening too hard, it sounded fine.In order to pick out particular sections of a tape recording, you need to turn on audible input monitoring, so that you can hear what’s being recorded. Audacity has this facility under Edit/Preferences/Recording , check “Audible input monitoring”.I’ve only used it on cassette, but I would expect it to work with any device to which it can physically connect, a turntable or whatever, and it has a very good set of connectors to facilitate that.Now that I’m satisfied that it will work, I have a winter project lined up to deal with my cassette archive.All in all, I’m very pleased with it for what it cost.

Superb! Been looking for such as this for an age. I used to be able to record direct down a speaker wire from Headphone socket on hi-fi to audio jack on laptop. Since updates of Realtek sound drivers, around late 2023, no longer, you need one of these.Not only that, but you'll probably be able to use your favourite recording app, and not rely on Audacity if you don't like it. I prefer Goldwave, and thought I'd lost that forever. Getting this to work via USB has got me Goldwave back.Don't worry if you don't have mini-CD for the download instructions, you can download Audacity latest version from the web, and also the tech manual on DIGITNOW'S website if you haven't a magnifying glass for their mini-booklet.A bit of a fiddle to install, don't be downhearted, get it going through Audacity first as it sets your machine up with all the right variations of settings non-audiotechs like me would never thought of. Seriously, if you already have Audacity, download the latest version. Then you're away. Also, now able to monitor recording via Bluetooth h/phones, so work quietly late at night with speakers disabled, where I couldn't before. Full praise, a genius whoever coded and developed this. I'm like pig in proverbial whatsit now. Happiness!

It Worked perfectly, once I'd bought the pre-amp needed.

Bought this with low expectation to digitise dead relatives talking on a cassette tape, the original was horrible, this did exactly what it was supposed to do, some free software allowed me to remove the loud hiss from the tape and make them far clearer. Works really well

As described and arrived on, well packed and pretty easy to connect, though you may need an RCA splitter/two way switch, if you don't want to be fiddling around with the turntable wiring over and over again.

Seeing the reviews, I was confident of being able to plug and play with this. Not so. I run MacOS Big Sur, so the instructions in the little manual for this item don't work. It says go to Apple logo/ About this Mac/ More info / Hardware /USB, but my options do not include 'more info' or 'hardware'. I wrote customer support but there was no response, ever.My tape deck was working fine but the device was not transferring the sound into Audacity. Zero customer support.After many hours and downloading different third-party apps, I finally got this to work through audacity.It works great once you figure out how to get it operating on your system, but that can be extremely difficult to do.Maybe you will be lucky and it will “plug and play“ for you, but if your experience is like mine, it will be a very long and frustrating process to get it up and running.

Device doesn't work.Plugged into USB socket as required - nothing happened. Tried over & over, then on two different laptops. The "audio" blue light comes on so seems to function in some fashion, but no laptop recognised the device. USB ports functioning fine, I checked. The CD claims to contain the device drivers (the front says "installation drivers and utilities") - it does not. It only contains Audacity, which I have. I'm returning the item, very disappointed.

I was a bit confused by some of the reviews but this is plug and play with an M3 Max Mac running the latest macOS and likely earlier. You just have to select "USB Microphone" in the settings app or in the audio app you're using. You don't need the CD at all.The additional adapters for connecting different cables are a nice touch.