KLIM K7 Cassette Tape Player - Cassette to MP3 Converter - Portable - Built-in Microphone & Speaker - Rechargeable Battery - Earphones - 16GB SD Card - Silver

KLIM K7 Cassette Tape Player + Cassette to MP3 ConverterSo far, I’ve digitized more than 80, 90 minute mix tapes that were on Maxell cassettes. Sound quality is pretty good, all things (like the 40+ year old cassette recordings) considered.Pro tips:If available, use another machine to rewind the tape’s side A. This might lessen the wear and tear on the K7 and also sets up the tapes to be digitized, which helps to keep the process moving along smoothly. Almost all of your tapes will need to be rewound.Before digitizing, check each cassette to make sure sound quality is as good as you’ll need. The K7 has a small speaker sufficient for this. Most of mine were in good shape but 5 or 6 were not digitized because their sound quality was so poor.Consider moving your most important cassettes to the front of the line for digitizing. Sound quality is likely to diminish over time as you’re dragging dirty, antique, cassette tape over the tape head.If you have many tapes to digitize, consider setting alarms on your phone to remind you to move the process along every 50 minutes or so, depending on the length of your tape being digitized.I was able to digitize 3+ 90 minute tapes on battery alone. However, keep the unit plugged in when possible. Interrupted recordings create more work.If you digitize multiple tapes onto the 16gb card, it can be easy to lose track when it’s time to rename the new mp3 files created. I tended to digitize a couple of cassettes, rename the files, move to HDD, rinse, repeat.Each side of your cassette will be digitized into one mp3. Scan the J card if you want to have a digital record of the songs on each mp3. (When you made the original recording you filled out the included J card that came with the blank cassette, right?)Save the tapes until you verify the recordings. You are then free to unburden yourself of the cassettes you’ve dragged around for years!Good Luck!

As others have said, this is a pretty great device for preserving your old mix tapes and whatnot. Honestly I would prefer a desktop device for that task, since I don't really want to revisit the "Walkman" days of carrying around a kind of bulky tape player to listen to music. I'll stick to using my phone which will always be with me anyway.But this is a nice solution to "ripping" your old cassette tapes.

I needed, I looked, I found! Had a large box of recorded (from live performances) cassettes that I wanted to convert to mp3s. This looked like a quality item at a great price. It's worked very well and I've had no problems at all. Would buy it again.

Nice throwback. Works great. Worth the money and the SD card lets you play tons of songs. It is USB powered and a nice gadget to have.

This IS the way to go! Great quality in every aspect in my mind. I've even transfered old tapes to the memory card (and synced it to mp3) and the sound there even blew my mind! So easey to comprehend and do, a 3 year could do it. And no need to download any app that asks you to disable security on your computer to use (won't mention names). Even the ear bud's that are provided are of excellent quality, and are magnetized, to keep better track of them (thats what it means for me anyways). I could go on for pages, but I won't. I will say, I hope the company sees this review, and will consider sending me a shirt, or a ball cap so I can rock it for them wherever I go, while jamming out on my Klim tape player ( a twinkle off of my teeth as I smile)!

It looks fancy. But it's pretty modern-basic. And somewhat defective.The tape playback speed was too fast. Abbott & Costello almost sounded like Alvin and the Chipmunks. I tried recording several times from the same tape and got similar (but inconsistent) results, meaning the tape would play back at slightly different speeds each time, but none were close to "correct".Being able to record from tape to SD card is a nice feature. But I had trouble importing to the computer. At best, I could copy 1 file from the SD card before the card would get corrupted, losing the other recordings on it.