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If they'd kept it a single cassette playing unit it would have no doubt been smaller in size. But if space is a concern, you're better off with something like Plus Deck's tape-to-pc converter. Still, it's nice to have two cassette decks in one in case something goes wrong with one side. It installs directly into an empty drive bay and integrates more directly with the pc. The software included is okay, but no better than you can get online for free. All in all it does what it's supposed to do, with no bells and whistles. So far I haven't had any problems at all with this device.
I don't quite understand why they had to make it a dual dubbing deck, as I can't imagine a scenario where I'll ever need to dub tape-to-tape. I initially bought it because my old tape deck that I used to transfer tapes to my pc broke, and I figured I might as well buy a new one that's specifically designed for this purpose. As another poster pointed out, it is large, like the old dubbing decks. Though installation is more tricky than with this unit.
I've found that cassettes deteriorate over time and start to wobble and sound shaky, as we all do after 18 years or so. It also serves as a traditional dubbing cassette deck, which only adds to its value as a component. The ION Tape2PC is a very useful and easy-to-use piece of equipment that enables me to archive cassette recordings to MP3. And for $120, it was a bargain. More impressively, I received it 5 days after placing my order, way ahead of expectations. I have a large collection of impossible-to-replace live radio broadcasts that I can now duplicate to MP3 and CD. Hat's off to Amazon and UPS, and ION for its unique products.
I have a lot of audio cassette tapes that I wanted to change over to cd's. The TAPE2PC does all that and I can choose what songs I want or don't want to go on the CD from my PC. I've been looking for something like this for a long time. I have no complaints.
This allowed me to put the cassettes into mp3 format and listen to them on cd's, on my I Pod, or whenever I am on the computer. I like the Ion because I have a lot of cassettes that I didn't want to repurchase in CD. It's a good product and easy to use.
It makes downloading the music files much slower as it has to go and search for similar files for every file that you download. Some would import shadow files that do not play any music. The worse part of it is that you have to guess which song belongs to what track to pick the title that Gracenote comes up with.
As for the Gracenote, that is a different and worse nightmare. Honestly I never found it helpful and just a waste of time.But after all, this is the only thing out there (that I know of) that converts your tapes to digital files. When I started downloading music from my old tapes, I thought that this is going to be amazing.
Some would import double files. The fun starts when you actually start to import the music files to i tunes. Some music files would not import.
So I guess I should not complain.
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