Really interesting stuff
I don’t know if this video was already posted… but i found it interesting
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Top 10 Musicians Who Ruined Their Reputations with One Song
They must have ruined their careers at the very start, I stopped after the first 3 or 4 artists/songs, all unknown to me, like the sexist click bait thumbnail woman. 
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Jesus, you are cruel. 
You hurt the feelings of fans of Taylor Swift or similar.
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Do you have old cassette tapes? Now you can turn them into MP3 files.
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those are utter and complete crap - the cheapest nastiest components and can barely keep the tape playing at a steady speed
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Are you quoting comments from YouTube or are you writing this from your own experience?
Agree with @sound.and.vision , all you need is a cable and Audacity. Not some cheap crap of a junk player. And why on earth would you archive to MP3 anyway.
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I don’t think recording an analogue cassette output requires a lossless format such as FLAC.
Or do you think that would improve your sound in any way?
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Yes, but only in case you have a working cassette player and an A/D converter.
And Audacity is well capable to store the recording even as 24-bit FLAC, if you like.
What I didn’t understand in the video is that the level is adjusted on the device. It would be much easier to adjust the signal with Audacity.
But I also agree with @sound.and.vision that it’s probably crap and not worth the money.
I saved all my old LPs as FLAC, although any MP3 from a CD would sound better. (in many cases 
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This is a cheap toy for damaged, worn-out tapes.
If you have chrome cassettes with Dolby C, you need to dust off your old deck or buy a used one and adjust the head tilt.
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If you don’t like used equipment touched by someone else’s fingers, you can buy a new deck TEAC, but with very poor parameters.
| Chrome | 50 to 12,000Hz +/-3dB |
|---|---|
| Normal | 50 to 12,000Hz +/-3dB |
| S/N ratio (overall) | 59dB (3%THD level WTD) |
https://teac.jp/int/product/ad-850-se/spec
Less than FM radio.
The example video was suggesting to buy a USB attached device. So picking up a cheap second hand cassette deck makes more sense to me. I then just use headphone socket. Last time I did this was actually with a classic Sony Walkman Recordable that still worked. My old Aiwa hifi stacked kit had rotted out its rubber bands, but the Walkman is still going strong.
Archive without compression. Reduce\compress later. Maybe today your speakers can’t tell the difference, but a later day you may update your kit. (Been there, done that…
Lesson learnt.) Quality is more about the way you record, as noted above you tweak that in Audacity.
I am actually doing something similar at the moment. I have my later father’s voice caught on an answerphone which I am using Audacity and a cable to capture.
Ebay is full of decent kit being offloaded. Old kit is better made than the modern stuff. It also looks way nicer.
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BTW, just so you realise, we are not swearing here. It is an acronym. crap = Create Rubbish Audio Product.
Ivan, it’ll be just right for your ears and your pocket.
Then you’ll save up more money and buy a better one.
I ripped a CD-R of a concert I was at to MP3 320mbps. I then upgraded my hifi. Spending my cash on better audio. I now listen to that concert and it sounds underwater. I can hear the compression.
Meanwhile time moves on and those CD-Rs are unplayable. They have rotted away. I lost my window to rip at lossless quality. I cannot go back in time and rip lossless now. Same with cassette tapes. I have tapes that are now mouldy and unplayable. I missed the window of opportunity. I don’t want others to make that same mistake. Always rip better than you need. Rip for tomorrow, not today
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Yes, I also think about others, not about myself.
yes owned one, its now in a WEEE bin somewhere - thing couldn’t maintain speed at all