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

Works perfectly! Device is plug and play in my MacBook. I downloaded the free app audacity. Clean and crisp recordings. Just make sure in your setting app and audacity that recording is set to the device. Also in audacity, I suggest set recording level to halfway as seen in the second pic, and adjust accordingly. There was a slight hiss when recording from my turntable. Worked like a charm.

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.

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

AS ADVERTISED, BUT IT MOST DEFINITELY COULD HAVE/SHOULD HAVE HAD MORE INSTRUCTIONAL DIRECTIONS/SPECS.

I have dozens of ancient Cassette Tapes (early 1970s) needed to be digitied. I had bought a used Yamaha KX-R430 Cassette Deck & digitized to play them into the V.TOP USB device, available on Amazon here: [link deleted].The "Line-Out" RCA pin jacks on the KX-R430 tape deck produced only thin, echo-y output to the V.TOP, which in turn produced a thin, echo-y digital file to Audacity, the free Windows analog-audio-capture and digitizing softare.This is because "line out" from the deck was in need of a pre-amp to contour the output into its full fidelity potential. Luckily, the HeadPhone output jack of the KX-R430 produced rich, full stereo sound. The V.TOP device worked well when connected to the preamped HeadPhone Jack of the Yamaha KX-R430.NOTE: A male 1/4" (KX-R430 HP output) male to a "small" (1/8" V.TOP male input) audio adaptor jack was needed to make the Cassette music flow from the deck to the V.TOP and thence into the USB port of the computer. Such an adaptor is available on Amazon here: [link deleted].USB output of V.TOP USB device captured, recorded, and copied out as a digital file, which in turn was captured and saved to the laptop hard drive by Audacity. The V.TOP package provides a mini-CD which contains the excellent, and free, Audacity recording app.NOTE: Audacity FAQ says: "You will probably want to both hear the monitored audio and see it on screen while recording. To do this, enable "Software Playthrough" in the Transport > Transport Options menu." This worked perfectly. Now headphones are hooked up to DELL Inspiron 15 laptop speaker output and V.TOP USB device isconnected to HeadPhone Jack (front panel) of Yamaha KX-R430. V.TOP draws its power from the USB port of the laptop to which it is connected (see picture).This allows realtime, monitoring & recording by Audacity. The process is 100% manual during Start/Record/Stop of all Tape Deck and Audacity "Transport" controls. If you have a 60 minute cassette tape, it will take 75 minutes to digitize it track by track.Audacity's File --> Export command allows direct saving of stereo tracks as .mp3 or .wav (and other) audio formats to the local hard drive. Track Names are up to the archivist. Once these files are on the local HD they can then be used to burn to a data CD or a thumb drive.If you only want to make .mp3 files of your old time "Mickey Mouse" kids cassettes, then any of the cheap "MP3 Converter" Walkman-style Cassette Players sold on Amazon will probably do. But Beware: These devices are toys, not tools. I bought one and sent it back.The V.TOP is a credible tool for making high fidelity digital stereo files [.mp3 or .wav] to preserve important cassette recordings, PROVIDED you use a quality, stereo cassette tape deck to play them into the V.TOP. V.TOP is Highly Recommended by me.Audacity settings are:Audio Host: MMERecording Device: Microsoft Sound ManagerRecording Channels: 2 (Stereo) RecordingPlayback Device: Speakers/Headphones

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.

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.