Small Cassette Tape Player, USB C or SD Card Audio Cassette to MP3 Digital Converter, Record to Cassette/Computer/SD Card via Mic, Loud Speaker, Headphone Jack, 16GB SD Card for Type I Tapes

Also did I mention... EXCELLENT QUALITY. I for real don't write reviews like ever, so when I endorse something, I MEAN it. I am a 22 year old man and am writing this via my mom's Amazon account through which I bought this and as soon as I started using this walkman, I felt extremely compelled to write this company/product a shining review.🏆 Just opened this guy up and after putting in 2 AA batteries, tested with an old Elvis cassette tape from 1973 and the SOUND is fantastic. 🔊 It came remarkably quickly and arrived in a little cardboard box; inside the walkman was seated in a little foam tray with the earbuds and instructions lying flat beneath. I felt very comfortable that it wouldn't have been damaged in transit. 📦 The BUTTONS are solid and don't rattle and have a weight to them that feels durable and WELL-MADE. Jacks for BOTH aux and mic are VERY appreciated and are both clearly labeled. 🎧 Analog radio tuner =🤌🤌. The video shows it sitting on its horizontal side but it also stands just as steadily vertically with the antenna pointing up. 👍 VERY easy to open and insert tapes. 🙌 I have tried other brands on Amazon that were fine but were a bit flimsy and got jammed or stuck pretty easily. I had bought two of one kind that worked okay but both started making screeching noises and quit working after about a month of very minimal use each. ☹️ It obviously hasn't been that long yet, but I haven't seen reviews here talking about this Semier stopping working (unlike the other one whose bad reviews I did not listen to🫣). I am actually really confident that that isn't going to be an issue with this walkman; it feels better and works better right out of the gate so I doubt that's going to be an issue. If it is as some point, it's likely a fluke or my fault and I can always return it/contact the company for help. 🙏 This has a remarkable PRICE and I truly see no need to buy anything more expensive as this does what it needs to and does it very well. 💲 The external speaker is VERY good. Keep in mind my video is of a super old tape and by nature isn't going to sound like Bose, no matter how it's played. 📻 The only reason someone might want to upgrade to a more expensive brand is to find one with a very VERY good speaker/Bluetooth compatibility, but we're talking about cassette players here which are predominantly intended for wired headphone use, so an external speaker is just a big bonus.👌 I tried the earbuds and they have a nice WARM sound to them and are really COMFYY. The earpiece parts are metal on the outside which just made them seem really fancy and cool. They have nice clarity (maybe a smidge muddy on some of the lower-mids but that's likely due to my tapes being old). 🎵 All in all, thank for coming to my TedTalk today, you've been a great crowd and I hope you will buy this if you're looking for a wonderful cassette player. If not then just to support these guys cause quality is hard to come by. Thank you and goodnight 👋.

So far only used once. Used it to record an old cassette audiobook, but the cassettes had failed. The player is very straight-forward and easy to use. It recorded just fine onto the SD card, which is included. No issues. The price is also pretty good.

The SM-163 Cassette Player MP3 Converter is a very convenient, no hassle way to digitize your old cassette tapes. My venerable Sony cassette deck's rubber drive belts have turned to glue and about 100 cassettes from the 1970s and 1980s are inaccessible. This is a simple way to put those tapes into an accessible modern format. Given the price, one shouldn't expect the highest quality and precision, and indeed one has to fiddle with the tape a little to load it sometimes, but this is minor. Overall I was pleased with the operation. One just has to load the cassette, load a MicroSD card (included), press a couple of buttons and wait. The device shuts off automatically at the end. Turn the tape around, press a couple of buttons, and it records the other side. I converted cassettes to digital both with the MicroSD card internally, and with the USB cable connected to my computer recording with the included Audacity software (I suggest downloading the latest version rather than using what's on the CD). The reason I downrated this is an unmet expectation based on the Amazon product description that says: "Preserve your cherished music collection in a modern digital format." If a user cherishes their music collection — especially stereo recordings — they'll reasonably expect a converter to preserve stereo fidelity. The SM-163 does not. It mixes the left and right channels into one single monaural output that is then sent to both the left and right channels of the output MP3 file or the headphone jack. The headphone jack wiring is nonstandard — it connects only two of the three terminals, and neither is ground. This works for headphones but may cause issues when connecting to audio systems without a custom cable.. I spent the better part of an afternoon trying to figure out what was wrong before coming to the realization that this was not a stereo device. That fact was confirmed by a prompt response from the seller: "This is not a stereo cassette player." Let me be clear: there is nothing in the product description, nor in the Instruction Manual with the word "stereo." I asked Rufus, and it said it didn't know. I just jumped to a wrong conclusion. In reality, most of my old cassette tapes are not stereo. Some are "stereo compatible," which just means they are monaural but work on a stereo cassette deck. I have decided to keep the SM-163 because it's convenient and my cassettes are mostly old memories rather than serious music to listen to. Plus a full conversion would require manually breaking up cassette sides into individual tracks and labeling them. The converted cassettes sound good, and studio monitor headphones plugged into the SM-163 deliver clean playback — even if it’s mono.

Don't buy this! I need a cassette-to-digital tape player to preserve a beloved Wyndham Hill collection that was issued only once, and only in cassette format. I have struck out completely with Amazon purchases - all Chinese junk. The sound quality was terrible on the first two that I bought, but I kept trying and this was the last one. After hitting play I realized that too much time had elapsed without the music beginning, so I hit stop and opened it to find the tape all bunched up and shredded. If I'd thought about it when it happened I would have taken a photo of my mangled tape - too late.

I have only had this for about a week now, but, it has satisfied what I bought it for. I have a bunch of old cassette tapes from the 70s and 80s that belonged to my grandfather. They include when his father interviewed my 5 year old mother, and a lot of old Hungarian music that was recorded by a cousin of his. The sound quality when hooked up to audacity is fantastic & is VERY clear. It is actually kind of shocking how clear it is. It is also very nice to be able to listen to stuff on it without having to have it hooked up to the computer. The sound quality there is also great.

I’ve been putting the SEMIER SM-I36 through its paces, and honestly, it’s a beast for what it is. If you’ve got a backlog of old cassettes that need saving, this is the tool for the job. Direct-to-PC Recording is Flawless Most of these "converters" are total junk—flimsy plastic that feels like it’ll eat your tapes. This one is different. The PC recording works flawlessly. I plugged it in, and the OS picked it up immediately—no fighting with drivers or weird workarounds. The audio signal is clean, too. You get that solid analog warmth without the digital hum or motor flutter that usually plagues the cheap stuff. The Breakdown Solid Build: It’s "small" but doesn't feel like a toy. The buttons have a real tactile click. Rock-Solid Playback: The motor speed is actually consistent. No dragging or "underwater" sounding audio here. Zero Friction: It’s basically plug-and-play. If you’re trying to digitize a whole library, this is easily the path of least resistance. Bottom Line It’s rare to find a modern tape player that actually delivers. Whether you’re hit with a wave of nostalgia or just mid-project trying to archive years of audio, the SM-I36 is a sleeper hit. It’s compact, reliable, and just gets the work done.

I was trying to sort through a hundred cassette tapes I had stored and moved with me for four decades. I tossed many that I knew I would no longer play or could access on spotify. But the ones that were recorded by myself or fsamily presented a different problem. I narrowed it down to ten, but as I was searching digitizing options online and the prices, I realized I had no idea if there was truly something worth saving on many of the tapoes as I no longer had anying to play them on. Looking at digitizing options, and remembering sending one a decade ago that cost me $35 to find out it was basically blank) I checked Amazon and found this cassette player at a great price! As an almost 80 year old I was grateful how easy and user friendly it was after adding the batteries and I spent an evening listening to my voice and those of family from 1982 with clarity! What a treasure. I may still opt to digitize some but now that choice is supported by knowing what the outcome will be. A great find for anyone with the same problem I had...What's on those old tapes? Now I wish I had come to this solution before tossing so many that may not have been blanks, but grateful to have again reduced the clutter for my family when I am gone and maybe only leave the few memories they might enjoy!

The cassette player itself works, and the recordings sound fine when played with VLC. However, there is a serious problem with the files it records onto the microSD card. The product claims to convert cassettes to MP3, and it gives each recording an .MP3 filename. After Audacity repeatedly refused to open my recordings, I had one of the files examined. The machine is actually encoding the audio as MPEG Layer II (MP2), not MP3, and merely putting an .MP3 extension on it. There is no setting on the SM-136 that allows you to change the recording format. This is particularly frustrating because the machine comes with a micro CD-ROM and a link to download Audacity, yet Audacity cannot open the files recorded directly onto the machine’s own microSD card without additional conversion. The recordings are not necessarily lost—VLC can play them, and VLC can convert them into genuine MP3 files that Audacity will accept. You can also bypass the microSD recording feature and record directly into Audacity through the USB connection. Nevertheless, buyers should not have to perform an extra conversion to obtain the MP3 files this product advertises. The player is usable, but the microSD “MP3 conversion” feature does not work as described and should have been tested with the included software. Note: when you add raw data, the file is nothing but distortion and hiss.

Compact, nice design, good quality sound, works with batteries or AC. I am content with this product, so far.

Works great.

Radio and cassette player are okay. But recording -- totally useless .

El producto cumple de manera cabal con lo que se ofrece, transferir la música de casete a mp3 lo hace de manera excelente y con muy buena calidad. Los materiales del reproductor son muy buenos y resistentes. En general muy satisfecho con la compra, entregada en tiempo y forma.

It’s awful. It kept eating my tape and I tried different batteries, or USB..the problem is clearly with the cassete player. The reels only spin for three seconds befors the sound distorted then faded altogether. The radio is the only thing working fine but it’s not what I got this for. I will return it and buy a different brand.