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Audio ION Audio Tape to PC Casettendeck USB | 
| Brand: Alesis
Category: CE
Buy New: £77.54
New (7) from £77.54
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 4473
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11
Dimensions (in): 192.9 x 124 x 86.6
MPN: DIO TAPE2PC
Model: ION TAPE2PC
UPC: 855960000252
EAN: 0855960000252
ASIN: B000VG802I
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Quickly transfer music on your tapes to MP3 format on your computer! | | • | Dual dubbing cassette deck | | • | Plug & Play USB audio interface no drivers needed! | | • | Metal and CrO2 tape selector | | • | EZ Tape Converter 2 software (PC) and EZ Audio Converter (Mac) for hassle-free recording |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Good kit, does what it claims to do September 23, 2008
nick coull
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been using this Audio ION Audio Tape to PC Casettendeck USB for a couple of weeks, and think it is a good product.
It is true that you don't have to buy this if you already have a good cassette deck, the cables required, the software and the technical know how etc.
However, if you don't and you want a well priced and easy to use solution for downloading cassettes to your PC, this product gives you what you need.
There IS automatic track sensing (one reviewer says there isn't), so you don't have to sit by your PC when downloading tapes. It even uses Gracenote to find track titles for you (although this does not work for all albums).
Just make sure you download the latest software and reset windows default Audio devices before using. Full instructions for doing both are highlighted in the supplied instructions.
The product uses ITunes, but so what. You can still play the downloads using Windows Media Player and download/burn to other devices - just point WMP to the ITunes library containing the downloaded tracks.
Works well, converted all my tapes easily August 31, 2008
Dr. H. Beentje (Kew, England)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Comes with Audacity software, which helps convert your casette tapes to mp3 files (or AIFF, or Ogg Vorbis, if you prefer). You can record a whole side of a tape in one go, and then easily chop it up in its separate tracks if you like. I am not a techie and found it all quite easy to work. Sometimes I had a strong buzz coming in over an otherwise clean tape; stop the machine, switch it all off and on again, and it is fine again. Not quite sure which caused this, not dirty heads (I cleaned these a few times with proper cleaning solution) not a bad lead connection. Anyway, I converted all my tapes to my satisfaction; just as I did earlier with all my records, using an ION record deck. A useful machine!
Does what it says, but not how I expected! March 24, 2008
Nick56 (England)
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
I needed a machine to convert my 100+ cassette recordings to MP3. This machine will do it, but if you want to catalogue all your albums/tracks/artists properly, you need to have a lot of time on your hands. You literally have to play each cassette the whole way through and stay with your PC to add the track breaks etc.
You would have thought someone could have come up with a high speed method for doing this that recognises pauses between songs etc.There is a piece of additional software, but no instructions supplied so it's anyone's guess whether it could make the job any easier.
Essentially this is a double cassette deck that just happens to have a USB port so it plays into your computer. It is no more.
You also have to use iTunes as the software for capturing the music, even if you don't want to use iTunes and then have the cumbersome process of locating the songs in the files and moving them so you can play them in windows media player or upload to other MP3 players.
All in all a bit disappointing therefore and with 6 tapes done and nearly 100 to go, if I'm wrong in my assessment of how this works, please tell me quickly!!
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