Ion Tape2PC USB Cassette Deck

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Brand: ION Audio
Category: CE

List Price: ~~$199.99~~
Buy New: $110.09
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New (32) Used (1) Refurbished (1) from $54.99

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

133 reviews
Sales Rank: 3064

Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7
Dimensions (in): 16.5 x 8.8 x 5.3

MPN: TAPE2PC
Model: TAPE2PC
UPC: 855960000252
EAN: 0855960000252
ASIN: B000VG802I

Release Date: November 1, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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
•	PC and Mac compatible

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
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.

Customer Reviews:
4 out of 5 stars

tape2usb converter March 8, 2010
L. Fellers (CAMDEN, MI, US)
the converter works pretty good. if you have old tapes it will not make them sound good tho. had some problems initailly hooking it up to the computer w/itunes. can not convert both sides of the tape at 1 time tho which i was really hoping i could. directions could have been a little better. for the price i got this for it is not a bad product tho.

1 out of 5 stars

Ion Tape2PC Cassette deck March 6, 2010
Colleen J. Edwards
I was very unhappy with this product. The first software CD was not written correctly and had recording instruction errors. I contacted the Company. They had me download a second set of instructions which also had errors. The system simply did not work, and I returned it for a full refund.

3 out of 5 stars

Added features March 3, 2010
Robert Mitchell (Midland,Tx)
Just recently purchased the ion tape 2pc very easy to use. The negative is it only works with I tunes you can tranfer your music to to windows, or other media program and then transfer it to your specific mp3 I use the Sansa. Overall if you have cassettes that are priceless,and you want to keep them this is the way to go.EZ vinyl/tape program only works with ITunes.

5 out of 5 stars

Easily Saves Cassettes to PC March 2, 2010
Kurt Everhart (Guntersville, AL USA)
I bought the Ion Tape2PC USB Cassette Deck in order to copy many of my cassettes, that for many I had previously recorded from records, onto my PC and then to CDs. I have been using the deck about a month and it works quite well. All of the music is copied to iTunes and from there I can pick which music I want to copy to CDs. It is also nice that I can listen to the music as I copy it. br / br /If I have to find something to complain about, it would be a minor point. It would be nice to have a pause on the recording option on the software, so I can turn the cassette over and resume on the other side. Instead, I have to copy side one and then transfer that music to iTunes and then come back and copy side two and then transfer that music to iTunes. Again, that is only a minor inconvenience. Overall, I highly recommend the product.

3 out of 5 stars

Could be so much better February 13, 2010
Comm Prof (virginia)
The price is reasonable, but the unit is big, bulky and low on features. I see no real reason this had to be a two-drive deck, except (I guess) that one side will function as a backup when the heads on the other get dirty or the control levers break. br / br /Neither side has auto-reverse (unlike every car cassette made in the past 20 years) and there's no way to have one deck start playing when the other finishes. Adding those two features would be very powerful: making it able to convert two full tapes without human intervention. br / br /Instead, this just looks like the cheapest player that had circuitry inside that lent itself to adding a USB-out circuit. It works, but that's about it. I let it sit in the box for months before I got around to installing it. If I'd had time to test it sooner, I would have sent it back. br / br /Other improvements I wish it had: Illuminated controls; a cueing speaker; Macintosh software for automatically marking breaks between tracks or downloading album information. br /(Instead of Ion's software, I've been using Final Vinyl, which came with a Griffin iMic -- which I used with my 30-year-old Sony cassette deck before deciding the Ion would be a more elegant solution. It isn't, but at least the heads are newer, and the second side will be there as a backup.) br / br /

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