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

Works well with Audacity on Man and PC. Didn't need to use the included software for either. Was just plug and play. No noticeable introduction of hiss or noise in the recordings.

I have a modern MacBook so the first requirement is to get a USB-C adapter. Having done that, there was no way of telling whether the device had been accepted by the MacBook , or whether it wasn’t necessary to install it as such, which in the end it wasn’t. The manual isn’t entirely clear on using Mac OS but seems better for Windows where an installation disc is supplied. The next issue was to install Audacity from the website, as there doesn’t seem to be an app. The installation as such was straightforward but it took some time, and several attempts to record before I was asked whether I wanted to allow use of the USB Microphone. When this finally happened, I tried a recording from a classical cassette played on a Sony Walkman, which I recorded using the 3.5mm cable, without making any adjustments to the recording level or using any of the other tweaks available with the software. The sound was excellent and could probably be improved by playing around with the software. I shall now transfer some of my cassettes to the MacBook, using my Aiwa cassette deck, which should produce even better results, and thence to my iPhone, and perhaps try a few vinyl LPs as well, and update this review at that time. However, at this stage, the device seems promising, once you figure out how to launch the software.

works well, can connect it to an android 9 and android 15 phones, via an OTG adaptor. The recording quality sound good to me, when I look at the recorded file graphically it seems to have capture the full frequency range in good detail. also works with a linux desktop, didn't require any drivers to be installed. Seems to work better with headphone level audio, I noticed on one hifi i used it with the LINE OUT seemed to be too loud resulting in clipped audio, but headphone one is fine and allows more control over the recording volume.

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!

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.

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.