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Ion Tape2PC USB Cassette Deck
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List Price: $199.99
Our Price: Too low to display
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Ion
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Ion
Color: black
EAN: 0855960000252
Feature: Quickly transfer music on your tapes to MP3 format on your computer
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Ion
Manufacturer: Ion
Model: ION TAPE2PC
Publisher: Ion
Studio: Ion
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Features
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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
PC and Mac compatible
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Editorial Reviews:
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ION has created a revolutionary USB dual cassette deck allowing you to convert your cassette collection to CD or MP3 with included recording software. (no special drivers needed).Tape2PC comes bundled with EZ Tape Converter by MixMeister, which converts your audio cassette recordings directly into iTunes. In just a few mouse clicks, you'll be up and running with digital versions of your tapes.Upgrading your favorite recordings has never been easier.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Works fine.
Comment: So far I haven't had any problems at all with this device. I initially bought it because my old tape deck that I used to transfer tapes to my pc broke, and I figured I might as well buy a new one that's specifically designed for this purpose. As another poster pointed out, it is large, like the old dubbing decks. I don't quite understand why they had to make it a dual dubbing deck, as I can't imagine a scenario where I'll ever need to dub tape-to-tape. If they'd kept it a single cassette playing unit it would have no doubt been smaller in size. Still, it's nice to have two cassette decks in one in case something goes wrong with one side. The software included is okay, but no better than you can get online for free. All in all it does what it's supposed to do, with no bells and whistles. But if space is a concern, you're better off with something like Plus Deck's tape-to-pc converter. It installs directly into an empty drive bay and integrates more directly with the pc. Though installation is more tricky than with this unit.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Versatile Easy to Use Cassette Player
Comment: The ION Tape2PC is a very useful and easy-to-use piece of equipment that enables me to archive cassette recordings to MP3. I have a large collection of impossible-to-replace live radio broadcasts that I can now duplicate to MP3 and CD. I've found that cassettes deteriorate over time and start to wobble and sound shaky, as we all do after 18 years or so. It also serves as a traditional dubbing cassette deck, which only adds to its value as a component. And for $120, it was a bargain. More impressively, I received it 5 days after placing my order, way ahead of expectations. Hat's off to Amazon and UPS, and ION for its unique products.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Just what I needed.
Comment: I've been looking for something like this for a long time. I have a lot of audio cassette tapes that I wanted to change over to cd's. The TAPE2PC does all that and I can choose what songs I want or don't want to go on the CD from my PC. I have no complaints.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ion Tape2PC
Comment: I like the Ion because I have a lot of cassettes that I didn't want to repurchase in CD. This allowed me to put the cassettes into mp3 format and listen to them on cd's, on my I Pod, or whenever I am on the computer. It's a good product and easy to use.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very nice idea but with some bugs
Comment: When I started downloading music from my old tapes, I thought that this is going to be amazing. The fun starts when you actually start to import the music files to i tunes. Some music files would not import. Some would import double files. Some would import shadow files that do not play any music. As for the Gracenote, that is a different and worse nightmare. It makes downloading the music files much slower as it has to go and search for similar files for every file that you download. The worse part of it is that you have to guess which song belongs to what track to pick the title that Gracenote comes up with. Honestly I never found it helpful and just a waste of time.
But after all, this is the only thing out there (that I know of) that converts your tapes to digital files. So I guess I should not complain.
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