DIGITNOW Bluetooth Record Player with Stereo Speakers, Turntable for Vinyl to MP3 with Cassette Play, AM/FM Radio, Remote Control, USB/SD Encoding, 3.5mm Music Output Jack(Black)

I love it and I love it because it brings back memories. Now, about the player itself. Obviously, for the price, the speakers/sound is going to be terrible, there is no doubt about that. However, there is always a way around that. Get yourself an AUX cable and plug that part into the headphone jack, take the other end of the AUX cable and plug it into your Bose stereo! Fixed your problem :)I haven't used the cassette player yet, I really want to, I'm just too lazy to go out and search for any in the storage right now. I'm sure it will play great tho. Stereo works fine. Haven't tried the record thingy yet. Have read other reviews that it's quite tricky to actually do, but I'm sure I'll manage.It did take longer to get here then it said it would, but I blame that on the postal system and UPS. It is almost Christmas right now so, the mail is probably REALLY backed up.If you want a cheap record player, just to play and hear some good oldies, or even new stuff and have a nice sound bar to hook it up to, then totally grab this.

I took a chance on buying this product. I needed something that would create .mp3 from cassette tape. I have an apparently very rare set of cassettes that I love and have been wondering when they would become unusable for some reason and then lost forever. The goal for the conversion was completely self contained (needing no additional computer). This unit has both thumb drive and SD slot.Mu wife also has records (vinyl) of her mother working on air as DJ many years ago. These too are fragile and subject to loss. This is why I bought the this unit (it does cassette tapes and vinyl records).The unit is not fancy. There is no auto reverse. To minimize white space on the .mp3 file it's best to be nearby so you can eject and reverse the tape quickly. The recording seems to continue (as dead air) until the you actual press 'STOP'. This is crude but simple. I like simple. My 6 tapes copied perfectly. I plan to edit the raw recording with Audacity.The sound from the built in speaker is probably not hi-fi but is VERY CLEAR and with volume control can be too LOUD or any level you want. We have not recorded vinyl to mp3 yet. I plan to run the speaker volume on the low side to prevent disturbance of the tone arm.I did have one alarming experience. I didn't think, initially, to practice with a non sacred tape. I made an .mp3 from the first of my 6 special cassettes. This went fine but I was uncertain what started and stopped the .mp3 record etc. This resulted in a somewhat fragmented first try. It thne occurred to me I should dry run with a tape I don't care about. While experimenting this tape broke. I was horrified thinking it might have been one of my special tapes. After some investigation it occurred to me that the tape that broke was from the early 1970s and on inspection seems to be brittle. My special tapes are from the early 2000 and are in visually better shape. In the end, since I was confident I new how to get my .mp3 files I went ahead and recorded all 6 cassettes in one morning. I loaded the files on my phone and have been enjoying them immensely.I seldom take the time to review an item purchased from Amazon but this one deserves 5 stars in every way. If you like complicated and expensive electronics then this item is not for you.If you simply want to convert cassettes to .mp3 without needing an attached computer this is the equipment for you.

Other comments about this device seem spot-on: low speaker quality, plasticky feeling, wide range of inputs, quirky handling of the USB memory stick. But it does work pretty well.However, it does not actually record in the MP3 format it claims. It records to the old and nearly obsolete MP2 format, which might be read by many bits of software, but that is NOT editable using dedicated MP3 file editors like Magic Cutter or mp3TrueEdit. And if you use other file editors like Audacity, you are decompressing the MP2 file and recompressing the edited MP3 file, which I believe results in some loss.You can confirm this by looking at the "format" in an audio player like QuickTime. The file format is "MPEG-1, Layer 2," otherwise known as MP2, a format that was standardized in the early 1990s.

First of all, the LCD display on the front of the unit is not visible when viewed head-on. You have to view it at about a 60 degree angle from above to see anything on it. At first I thought it was broken until I happened to stand up and caught sight of the display writing. Others have reported this problem also.But the worst problem is it is entirely flaky about recording MP3s to USB. Often pressing REC does nothing. Sometimes it appears to start recording, and then the display will read DECFULL. Other times you will think you have successfully finished recording a record side, put the thumb drive in your computer, and you find jibberish file names. When you try to delete the files, Windows complains that they are "too long". I had to format the thumb drive to get rid of the corrupt data. And note - it would corrupt previously good files that had been recorded also. So I had 2 good side recordings, and then on the 3rd recording it blasted all the recordings in the storage directory on the USB stick. So if you DO get a good recording, copy it to your hard drive right away before making more!I think it took me about 11 tries to record 4 record sides.Sound quality is about the same as a basic clock radio. It has two small speakers. I was not looking at this as a means to play records to listen to, but to digitize them. The speakers are just a convenience to listen as you are recording so you know when to start/stop recording. If you are looking for a way to play to listen, this device is not for you. There is a headphone jack that may provide a better experience; I did not try it.I really wanted this device to work. The workflow is simple - plug in USB stick and press REC and STOP at the beginning and end of the record. But unfortunately the device is too unreliable. You spend 20 minutes spinning a record thinking you are recording it only to find it was corrupted or you get a DECFULL error. I'll be returning it.