USB 2.0 Audio Capture Card for Windows 10/8.1/8/7 and Mac OS 10.14-Audio Grabber for Vinyl Cassette Tapes to mp3 Converter

This is a great device to convert cassettes to MP3 files. It is completely Plug and Play. In other words, you will not need to add a driver because Windows will do that for you upon plugging it into a USB port. You will know it is connected when you see the blue LED start flashing on the Digital Audio Capture Card. I used this device using Windows 10 on an ASUS laptop and Windows 10 on a Dell (Alienware) laptop, and it work flawlessly on both computers.The audio editing software that comes with the capture card is Audacity and it is on a mini disk. If you do not have a disk player, you can download this free software from the Audacity website. In fact, you will want to download Audacity from the website anyway because the software on the disk is an older version. Both the included disk and the website has a user manual that you can download onto your computer as well. The Audacity software is simple enough to use, and if you need help, use the manual or watch any number of YouTube videos. I also used this device with Adobe Audition audio editing software and it worked fine. Audacity and other audio editing software will recognize this device as “Microphone Array (USB PnP Audio Device)”.I used a cassette deck and connected it using the two RCA phono plugs on the audio capture card. You can use the included headphone plug as well, depending on your device. Remember if you use a headphone jack on a portable cassette player or boom box, the volume on your boom box will affect the input level going to the software recording. RCA phono output jacks are considered “line outputs” and are not adjustable; therefore, I didn’t have to worry about having the volume either too high or too low. I recommend using a cassette player that has line outputs.Each recording is considered a project, which allows you to edit, such as remove silent intros and endings after each recording (song) is finished. In other words, you don’t need to worry about timing the pressing of your cassette deck play button with pressing the software record button: you can clean it up after the song has finished recording. Once you have your project (song) the way you like it, you then export it to the type of file you want such as .wav or .MP3. I have done one cassette so far. I added all the cassette’s MP3 files to a folder, and then I added the folder to iTunes. This Digital Audio Capture Card is well worth the money.

Works well - I use this to capture analog audio from many old audio cassettes, and the sound quality is excellent.

Needed to input music from vintage audio equipment (walkmans and cassette decks) into a laptop to analyze sound quality (flutter and wow). This little device exactly serves the purpose. Worked out of the box, no set up required on window 10. Amazing.

I have some old lower-quality cassette tapes, both full-sized and micro, that I used to record some conversations about 20 years ago. I needed to reference some of those tapes again. The sound only plays through the left channel on my headphones. To get the audio to play through both channels, I thought digitizing the tapes was the best solution. I also figured the digital files could be loaded onto my phone so I could listen to them anywhere at any time when I needed to.It was easy to get working. I just plugged the USB A end of the adapter into my iMac and the 3.5 mm plug on the other end of the adapter into the headphone jack on the tape player. I then started up Garage Band on the Mac, selected "monitor" in the software, pressed play on the tape player, and started to hear sound. I didn't need any additional software or drivers. It just worked out of the box.The sound is not perfect. I'm getting a soft electrical hum that shouldn't be there, so this probably isn't the right solution if your final output needs to be high quality audio. Then again, I'm not an electrical or sound engineer so maybe there's a way to filter that sound out, or I've got a bad jack somewhere. Those with more knowledge may be able to weigh in.For my project, the tape audio quality is so low that the additional hum isn't a problem. I was also pleased to discover that GarageBand automatically outputs the single channel mono audio to both channels, so I didn't need to configure anything to get the result I was looking for. I just pressed "record" and it began capturing the sound from the tapes into a digital file. This was exactly what I needed.

Best recording adapter tool, specially if you are avoiding digital keys within the music

Product works as expected when capturing audio at 44.1kHz, but does not work well at 48kHz which is the default for a growing number of audio applications.at 44.1kHz the capture is high quality and perfectly acceptable. at 48Khz the audio is pitch shifted and choppy, as if the device is still capturing at 44.1kHz and thus is producing gaps in the recording where the extra 3900 samples per second should be found.if you need 48kHz capture, avoid. if you only need 44.1kHz capture buy away.

Works perfect. I used with Garage Band on my Mac by watching a quick YouTube video.

I was so thrilled when this affordable item allowed me to connect my vintage cassette player, via the headphone jack, to my iMac, and made it possible to use (free) Audacity(tm) software to create MP3s out of my cassette tapes! Only thing lacking was detailed enough instructions. That's where ChatGPT came in. Just use that for step-by-step settings to set or help with any error messages.