Music Digitizer CD Recorder for Music Audio Capture Device Cassette MP3 Recorder Converter with 3.5mm & RCA Line Input

I order this unit to use for a commercial PA system installation to record the 8 microphone mixer output in a board meeting room. I permanently installed it by the recording secretary's desk and used a flash drive that has a big red read/write activity LED so that there is no mistaking as to when it is recording, or not.I did not need to use the IR remote in this application, but can confirm that it worked for all the functions it provides. However, it did seem very direction sensitive.Instead, the front mounted push button worked perfectly for her to "push once" to start recording and "push again" to stop recording. Which is all she needs to record the meetings.I have not tested it for music recordings, so I can not attest to the recording audio quality. It does fine on the voice grade recording application that I am using it for in this project.The best, and most unexpected feature, was when I tested it for power failure behavior. Since the board meetings can last as long a 6 hours, I feared that the Mp3 audio file would get corrupted if interrupted by a commercial power failure.As it turns out, when its power gets disconnected, it stops recording and automatically "closes" the session with only loosing the last 2 seconds of the audio recording. When power is restored, just push the start/stop button to resume recording as normal. There are not even any formatting issues caused to the flash drive by the power disconnect.That was critical for my application. I could not afford for the audio file to get corrupted by a power outage five hours into the meeting and loose everything up to that point.Upon the first recording on a new flash drive, it creates a new folder. Thereafter, it creates new Mp3 files inside that folder for every subsequent recording session which of course, can be renamed later. However, this unit requires the flash drive to be formatted in FAT 32 only.It will even create its new folder and files even if there are other existing files on the drive you are using without disturbing them.They do recommend to use a high level line output to drive their audio input jacks. I first tried to use the "recod out" line level from my PA amp and got recordings that were 15 db below normal. I then switched to a spare headphone output I had availible on the mixer and that worked great at about a 70% volume level.This unit worked perfectly for my application, is very inexpensive for what it does and is very user friendly. I would highly recommend it for any voice grade simple start/stop idiot proof recording applications.

I had been searching all over the web for a way to convert all my cassettes to digital MP3 files, and all I could find were cheap cassette player-converters, most of which required a connection to a computer and conversion software. I didn't want to tie up my computer and my time with these. I ordered the HopCentury digitizer for a try. It works great and with little effort. Just run the output line or lines from your cassette, CD, or record player to the digitizer, and insert a USB flash drive. Start the player and click the button on the converter. That's it, and walk away if you're doing a long recording. I press the button again on the box to stop the recording, and my thumb drive is ready to transfer the audio file to my computer or MP3 player for playback. Not sure what the manufacturer meant by a "duo-mono" output, but I am getting full stereo in my new MP3 files with left and right channels. With this small converter box, I can use my own high quality player instead of a cheap converter player. If you have many hours of old cassette recordings, records, and/or CDs that you want to be digitized, this is a highly recommended way to do it.UPDATE: I noticed that my record turntable when hooked up to the digitizer creates an electromagnetic buzzing noise. I unplugged a peripheral speaker connected to the turntable, and now no buzz. Meanwhile, my cassette deck works fine.

Very easy to use, and the quality of the recording is much better than a cassette tape player to MP3 converter that I had also tried. But when in use for recording an analog input, the music digitizer transfers itself from recording mode to playback mode after about 4-1/2 minutes of recording. So it is not useful to me. I want something that can transfer a full CD disc of music to a flashdrive or SD card. I don't know if all of these do this, or if I just got a bad one. I would send it back, but I waited too long to try it out, and my return time ran out.

GOOD PRICE...SIMPLE UNIT...ONLY MINUS IS THE REMOTE IS A BIT SPONGY AND UNRELIABLE...START AND STOP CAN BE DONE RELIABLY ON THE MAIN UNIT

Small compact item, read the directions, be gentle with tech objects and enjoy. Amazing small device, a bypass solution for flash drives that malfunction. Worth the price.

I used this with a PNY 128GB Elite-X Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drive - 200MB/sIt's a fairly fast drive with low profile, and decent storage. There were higher & lower capacity options for that drive. The drive was pre-formatted for FAT-32, which is what this Digital Recorder requires, so I didn't need to do anything with it except plug it in to the Recorder. That drive seemed to work fine with this device (although, perhaps it affected the sound quality, see below).I have the device audio-In plugged in to my laptop's audio output, and the device audio-out connected to the audio-in on my headset.The device audio out is somewhat garbled in comparison to the quality of the audio input. This is true regardless if I'm recording or not. On some calls, where the source audio was already garbled, the final quality of the audio output from the device was bad enough that I couldn't understand what was being said on the call, and so I had to remove the device from the audio circuit.I like the idea of the product and want to try to make it work. I might try to use an audio splitter so I can get the original audio routed to both my headset and the device directly.