Arsvita Portable Cassette Player and Recorder, Cassette to MP3 Digital Converter, AM/FM Radio Tape Walkman, Support 4-32G Micro SD Card, Build-in Speaker and Microphone, Black

Happy that I purchased the Arsvita cassette player. In addition to playing cassettes, it's an AM/FM radio, and acts as a recorder and highly recommend it! The fact that I can play my old cassettes, install a microSD card, and have the player convert the cassette to a MP3 file auto-magically is a huge bonus. Next, I remove the storage card and edit/trim the MP3 in various software applications. The sound quality is excellent and the radio is really a great addition. Like a throwback of days gone by.With that said, here are a few additions that I would like to see in future updates to the player:-- When the cassette gets to the end, the player doesn't stop, which can drain the battery quickly if you are not monitoring it-- It would be nice if there was a battery level indicator, so you have an idea of battery drainage-- Not sure why the USB cable can't be plugged in while playing the cassette. The player will not work when external power is used. I wanted to do this to save the batteries.Aside from my wishlist above, overall this player is a great buy! I saved more than $60 compared to another brand that I was considering. Just buy the darn thing and save money! Signed Happy Customer!

This is probably the perfect device for easily converting songs from an audio tape to MP3. While listening to your cassette, simply press the button for MP3 to begin recording, then press it again to stop. You can record a single song at a time, or the entire side of a cassette and then divide them up later on a computer with appropriate audio software (which is what I do). The sound recording is superb, as it is also when using headphones to listen - the single built-in mono speaker does not sound so great, but sounds okay when listening to talk radio. I definitely recommend this for transferring old tapes to digital.

I had zero expectations for this to actually work as well as it did. Mind you, I'm only four cassette tapes into the process, but all four loaded, played and recorded to the micro-sd card in .mp3 format as advertised. It was between this sub-$40, last minute purchase, or a cassette deck proper, cables and software for conversion to digital format on a PC. The quality of the .mp3 files are acceptable and clear. No speed issues. No eating of the tapes. I used the power adapter and not batteries. If you need a cheap solution that digitizes cassettes to .mp3, it worked for me, it may for you.

You cannot create a digital file from a cassette with this device. When you press the record button while the tape is playing, the blue light only comes on for a second, then goes off.

Lo-Fi cute. I purchased it to play some cassette tapes that I found abandoned in a house.

I have cassettes of material that is simply not available on other formats, and now I can conveniently hear them again. But what's more I've converted several tapes to MP3 so I can use them on other devices. Sure I could do that before with a cassette deck and a PC, but it was such a hassle I never got around to it. And as bonus I have used the AM/FM radio a bunch. Really handy device.The overall quality is good and thus so are the resulting MP3 files.Tip, not shown in the manual: you have to stop your MP3 conversion before you stop the tape!!! Otherwise the files don't properly close, and the files are thus corrupted. This makes sense because when the tape stops the device loses power. As long as you know how this behaves, this is not a problem. But I made a bunch of corrupt files before figuring this out.

I haven't had a chance to use it yet, so the verdict is still out. They don't provide a phone number for customer service for questions I asked, and they gave an e-mail address, which I wrote to, but they didn't respond. I just mainly want to use it to convert cassette tapes to digital files that I can send in e-mails. The machine is very light and feels flimsy.I expressed a wish in the unanswered e-mail I sent to them that, for the cassette recorder, it had a counter, to know where you are on a tape, and also a |review" function, where you can go backwards when in Play mode, to be able to hear where you are trying to get back to. Both of those features were standard in cassette recorders in the old days, but impossible to find now. I wish the machine were heavier and felt more solid, and I have no use whatever for the AM/FM radio that's in it, and would rather not have it. They say cassette tapes are "coming back" Tapes I used to buy at Half Price Books for 50 cents or a dollar are now 6 or 8 dollars, because, they say, of the renewed popularity. Plus blank tapes at Amazon.com are a lot more expensive than they used to be. But there are no decent portable recorders to support all that popularity.

The tapes are 30+ years old. I had to "cook" at about 130 degrees F with a food dehydrator for about 15 hours at least once to get them so they would not stop in any tape player or recorder, not just this one. After that, this worked well. I plugged and earphone in the earphone jack so I would not have to listen to the tape as it was converted unless I wanted to. So far it has worked very well an a large number of tapes cooked tapes. These were tapes of lectures, not music, so the utmost quality was not necessary.