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Turn your tapes into digital files and listen on your computer, iPod, iPad in the car, or in the palm of your hand!
ION Audio’s Tape Express Plus is a portable, handheld USB tape player that works with all kinds of tapes. It has an easy-to-use USB connection for sending the music on your tapes right into your computer where it’s instantly turned into a digital file.
You can listen to digital music files on your computer, load them onto your portable music player, or record them onto a CD and listen in your car. Rediscover those old songs with Tape Express Plus!
Tape Express Plus is designed with your on-the-go life in mind. Its portable design fits in virtually any bag and enables you to play and transfer music anywhere. It runs on battery or USB power when connected to your computer for easy operation wherever you go.
Tape Express Plus comes with ION’s exclusive EZ Vinyl/Tape Converter software. This powerful yet easy-to-use program guides you through transferring your music via iTunes, and includes recording settings for both normal and chrome (Cr02 / metal) cassette tapes.
In addition to converting your tapes, Tape Express Plus has an audio output that enables you to listen on the included headphones, or connect to your stereo or other speaker system for hours of loud enjoyment.
Reconnect with the music on your old cassettes anywhere you go with Tape Express Plus.
Tech Specs
Controls
- Volume: Adjusts the volume of the Headphones and USB Connection.
- Play: Press to play the tape.
- Stop: Press to stop the tape.
- FF / REW: Press to fast forward or rewind the tape.
Connections
- Headphones: You can connect headphones to the 1/8” jack here.
- USB Connection: Use the included USB Cable to connect TAPE EXPRESS PLUS to your computer. The USB connection will provide audio from Tape Express Plus to your computer. For transferring your recordings to your computer, we have provided software on the included CD.
Includes
- Tape Express Plus
- Headphones
- USB Cable
- Software CD
- Quickstart guide
- Safety & Warranty guide.
Colin
Reviewed in Canada on February 16, 2021
I'm not sure what to say about this cassette player; other than it has been an excellent buy and well worth the money. It works better than expected. I've been happily converting my remaining cassettes to digital files with this great device. The sound files are excellent quality.(I bought this device after having to return a competing product that just didn't work.) I chose this one, as I have an Ion turntable that I've been very happy with as well. The included software isn't great and records in wav format, but it does its job. Like any music digitizing software, it does a decent, but not perfect job of track separation, so I suggest recording as a single track and separating later, as you are likely going to want to convert it to mp3 or another format anyway.If you are looking into digitizing your old cassettes and don't want to break the bank, I highly recommend this product.
ام عمر
Reviewed in the United Arab Emirates on September 21, 2020
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AK
Reviewed in Mexico on April 27, 2020
Si tienes material musical en cassette y lo quieres digitalizar, este dispositivo es tu opcion. El software es realmente bueno y te ayuda mucho. Leí en algunos comentarios que metía ruido y demás, pero en mi caso. todo ocurrió perfecto. No tengo queja de ningun tipo. Recomendable.
Udayan Deb
Reviewed in India on June 6, 2019
It might look a little cheap but it's sound quality is at least as good as low end cassette decks.You won't find anything better anywhere near this price.
Justin H.
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2018
Do NOT by any means purchase this piece of equipment!!! I bought the ION Turntable several months ago to adapt all of my old vinyl albums into mp3 files. It was fantastic and worked perfectly! So I thought this ION product would be just as good for cassettes. WRONG!!! I have never been so disappointed in a product as I was with this piece of trash. I put in my first cassette and hit the record button on my PC. The tape speed was NOT consistent, causing the music to modulate between several different keys and waver up and down every few seconds. If you know anything about music (I'm actually a musician and music teacher) you know this is not acceptable. At first I thought maybe it was just a bad cassette, but after trying several different cassettes it was clear that it was indeed the unit. I had to actually find an old tape player from the basement and patch it through the aux port in the ION turntable to transfer the music from the cassettes through the turntable to my PC. Fortunately that worked because I was really pressed for time to finish a project using those old cassettes. So the bottom line is my ION cassette adapter is now in the garbage, and you need to do a little more research to find a better product because this one is NOT IT!!!
T. Farnsworth
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2011
I needed to convert my tape collection, and we tired of using headphone jacks. This thing is fantastic.In response to other reviews:1) The unit is plenty loud enough even with the cheapo included headphones2) it's not meant to be used as a walkman. Don't try and you won't be disappointed.3) The included software has good intentions. Poor execution. Use Audacity, not iTunes.Pros:1) It's the right price2) Easy operation3) True plug and play on Vista. Just plug it into a USB port and it worked instantly with Audacity. Did you hear that? No driver problems! Very unexpected, very welcome. This gets ignored when it works well, but people complain about it when it doesn't work.4) Loop feature. Turn on the tape, walk away, come back when it has done both sides.5) Auto volume for recording. Don't have to mess with it.6) No batteries, no power cordsCons:1) Plastic body. It'll hold up for my tape collection, but I would never take it outside.2) Hum during recording. Don't know if it's the tape or the player, but it happened on both cassettes so far.3) No auto-stop. When it has played both sides of the tape, it should know that it is done, right? It doesn't.How to use it (or how it works for me):Plugged in the USB cable (no battery needed, none used). Put in a tape. Pressed play.I have used the included software option and the Audacity option. Audacity is better. Here's why: the included software has a feature. It auto-detects when a song ends and another song begins. But it is not 100% (it missed 3 breaks in the tape I just did, and it was a commercial music tape). And it does not have a noise reduction function, which it desperately needs.Using Audacity, download it for free. Then follow the links on the Audacity site and download the lame MP3 encoder. That's the name, not a description. It works great. Using this setup is simple:1) start Audacity2) click record3) press the play button on the unit4) when you are done recording, click stop in Audacity5) stop the player6) select a small section of "silence" in the recording.7) in the Effect drop-down menu, select Noise Removal8) Click Get Noise Profile9) Select the entire recording (all 90 minutes at once if you have a recording that long)10) in the Effect drop-down menu, select Noise Removal11) Click Remove Noise. Wait for it to finish.12) You can easily see where songs start and finish, so highlight 1 song, go to file-->Export selection as MP3, and save it. Do this for each song. You now have the songs saved, named, and noise is removed. You don't need that tape any more. You win!
Cassandra von Pohl
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2011
I've got a lot of tapes. Some of them are irreplaceable demos from bands my husband has been in. This has been a great way to preserve those tapes.The cassette player is sturdy enough for sitting next to the computer, I would not recommend using this as your go-to player for your workout at the gym. It is all plastic and would not survive rough use. But since you're buying it to convert tapes to MP3, why would you be taking it for a jog anyway?It has several options for power. There is a 3v power port, there is a battery (two AA) compartment, and you can just plug it in to your computer via USB. The power port and the battery options are nice, but in my opinion, redundant. You're plugging it in to your computer. You shouldn't need batteries.The door opens from the side and swings wide so there's no need to finagle your tapes in through a narrow door slot. I really like that you can just set your tape in. Since you can position your tape properly before shutting the door, it really cuts down on the risk of it eating your tape. I've had more trouble with the other type of door, so this is a GREAT feature.It has play, FF, RW, stop, and direction change buttons, and a loop switch.The headphones are nice for reviewing or listing to the tape while you record, but don't expect great bass performance or anything.I didn't bother with the software. After reading the reviews for it I decided I had everything I needed with Audacity. I am familiar and comfortable manipulating audio files with Audacity and it give you many options for sound normalization. If you are a total newbie to audio manipulation, you might prefer the included software. But I'd really recommend giving Audacity a try. You will need to install the mp3 export codec to export to mp3. I already had everything loaded and ready to go on my system though.So, to review, The player is not the sturdiest design, but unless you plan on using it as your primary cassette player, this isn't an issue.The headphone's aren't top of the line, but they're great for reviewing your tapes.Read the other reviews for the included software to see if it's what you want, and if not, try Audacity.
mech
Reviewed in Japan on October 3, 2010
他の方のレビューを何度も読んでも、結局、いいのか悪いのか判断できなくて、買うまでに1ヶ月くらい悩みました。でも、思い切って買ってよかったです。本体も専用ソフトも、必要最低限の機能しかないので、とてもラクです。専用ソフトは英語仕様ですが、日本語の取説がとてもわかりやすいので、1回使えばすぐに覚えられます。テープを再生して、録音ボタンをクリックするだけで、あっさりデジタル化できます。録音レベルも何もいじらず、デフォルトで使っていますが、音質に不満はありません。CD化したものをiPodや部屋のコンポで楽しんでいますが、元の音がそのままコピーされていると思います。無音部分でトラックをわけてくれるのが、とてもいいです。本体のSTOPボタンを押すと、ソフトの録音も止まるのですが、オートリバース時にまでこの機能が生かされてしまうのか、（リバース時にガチャンと一度切れるのが、停止と認識されるのか）リバース後、プレーヤーは引き続き裏面を再生し始めても、ソフト側では録音が止まっているので、ちょっと笑いました。外国製品にはよくある手抜かりなので、まあ大目に見ています。A面とB面を2回に分けてiTunesに落としても、同じアルバム名とアーティスト名を入力すれば、問題なく１枚のアルバムとして統合されるので、片面ずつ、のんびりデジタル化しています。別に不便には感じません。（無音部分は録音されないので、データが無駄に大きくなることはありません）ちなみに私のPCは、6年前に買ったノートパソコンで、OS は Windows XP、USB2.0です。付属のソフトを使って再生・録音し、iTunes に取り込んでいます。他の方のレビューにあるようなUSBの接続エラーは一度も出ないし、ノイズもモーター音も入りません。Windowsであれば、何の問題もなくスムーズに使えると思います。このプレーヤーのおかげで、母が大事にしていた20年前のテープをCDに焼いて、今、それを2人で聴きながらレビューを書いています。とても嬉しいです。
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