Grace Digital GDI-Tape2USB200 USB Tape Player with Built-In Mic Includes PC/MAC Software
- Save your cassette tapes in stereo directly to your PC or Mac
- Includes a built in speaker to monitor your recordings or play the tapes (regular or chrome) away from the pc or on your home stereo
- Connects to your personal computer via USB or your home stereo to play tapes via standard left and proper RCA jacks.
- Built in counter to monitor your recording time
- Package consists of: USB recordable cassette player, Audacity software for Mac and PC, 9V DC power adapter, USB cable, RCA cable and user manual
Bring those old cassettes back to life – both store-bought or recorded from the radio or live performances–and save them to your PC with the Grace Digital USB cassette deck, which is compatible with both Windows- and Mac-based computers. Just plug the GDI-Tape2USB200 into your computer making use of the provided USB cable, install the software and start converting your music. It comes with every thing you will need to turn your music into digital MP3 files. The included Audacity software makes transfer and editing your music simple. Even store your music in your iTunes music library. When you’re finished digitizing your cassettes to your pc, the GDI-Tape2USB200 can connect to your stereo system utilizing the included RCA cables for convenient cassette listening wherever your stereo system resides. Other features contain recording level adjustment, and a built in microphone. Preserve your memories – with Grace.
List Price: $ 119.99
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Grace Digital GDI-IR2500 Wi-Fi Net radio Featuring Pandora, NPR On-Demand, Sirius and iheartradio
- Listen to over 16,000 web radio stations such as Pandora, iheartradio, NPR on-demand, BBC, ESPN, Live 365, Sirius
- Includes a full range rear ported 4″ speaker for fantastic highs, midrange, and bass to listen to your favorite Pandora, Live365, SIRIUS, AM/FM
- Large 4-line display with 30 backlight micro settings. Set your radio to automatically dim when turned off in the night time and stay bright during day time listening.
- Includes 5 alarms to buzz or play your favorite radio station. Each alarm settable for 1 time, a day of the week, weekends, weekdays, or 7 day alarm
- Even plays your music files from your PC or MAC.
The Grace Digital Innovator III (GDI-IR2500) Wi-Fi radio is the newest in the line of Grace’s tabletop radios. The Innovator III is a mixture Web radio and audio media streaming device that brings all the audio content of the Net and Pandora within listening distance, wherever you are. With it users can listen to 16,000+ radio stations from NPR, FOX news, CNN, BBC, CBS to KROQ, over 35,000 podcast, 20,000+ On-Demand subscription streams or your personal Pandora radio stations. Extra features contain a stereo headset jack for personal listening enjoyment, the ability to stream files from local personal computer networks, compatibility with the totally free Grace remote control App for iPhone/iTouch, and 5 separate alarms with sleep mode and a high contrast 4 line adjustable backlight display.
List Price: $ 169.99
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Wow….this really works…!!,
I am now 75, and if I can do it, anybody can do it…This cassette player works great..! I already have several MP3 files uploaded to zSHARE of my digital piano gospel music specials in one day! I’m glad now I paid a little more and got this one…it was worth the extra.
The play back sounds excellent, and just as good as my original tapes made back in 1963. The play back is stable, and never changes from the correct pitch. The player is solid and powerful enough to play old cassettes that sometimes try to stick or stall and lower the sound or pitch…. We don’t want that to happen! This tape player is Recommended!
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|A marked improvement for Grace Digital Audio,
This digital recorder converter is of impressive quality, and the sound is as impressive as the result of superb engineering by Grace Digital Audio after the noticeable disappointment of the previously released digital recorder converter. Not to mention of its clean details and of a similar construction of the previously released device which I encountered numerous problems, the same cannot be said of this newer Grace Digital Audio Tape2USB ll. Instead, I got superior sound quality of the tape being recorded with the help of Audiacity software. I love it so much that I’ve rated it the most improved product since Grace Digital Audio seemed to redeem itself after a disastrous performance of Tape2USB. I originally was going to send the Tape2USBll to the seller that I got it from, but after a change of heart, I’ve decided to keep it. What a great choice, I’ve made now, that I am going to send the Grace Digital Audio Tape2USB to my folks’ for them to use instead of the Tape2USBll. So now, I have the liberty and the good grace of using Tape2USBll to do the job that it was supposed to do! So far, I have not heard of any interference that I’ve experienced with the Tape2USB digital recorder. Thank you, Grace Digital Audio!
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|The Best 5 star,
It worked right out of the box with no problems. It is Perfect.
I would recommend it to anyone.
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|Would make a fine $49 tabletop radio in a couple of years,
I have owned the Grace GDI-IR2500 now for a couple of months, and I will try to be as brief as I can with my thoughts and comments.
Build quality: Fair – not terrible, but not great. The black vinyl or plastic wrap used over the wood housing is attractive but not assembled very well, with very noticable imperfections/large wrinkles on both the top front right corner and the top back right corner. The controls are of comperable quality to those of a $10 clock radio, and will probably start wearing out after a couple of years of heavy use. The 4-line LCD display is relatively easy to read.
Setup: If you have ever setup any other wireless devices such as a laptop, smartphone or other wi-fi enabled device, it is not much different and pretty straight forward. The only area that can be somewhat cumbersome is the same issue I have in other areas of operation: the poorly functioning and designed remote control. The remote basically offers up and down keys for entering a security key, scrolling through each number and letter of the alphabet, locating the character you need, then selecting, then scrolling… you get the picture. A remote offering a numeric/ABC type of entry would be preferred, and for $130 to $150, should be included.
Station selection: Good – but not nearly as good as some of the applications offered on iPhone, Android, and Blackberry smartphones such as WunderRadio and RadioTime. Searching for stations is also poorly thoughtout. Other than Clear Channel Communication’s “iHeartRadio” offering, you can’t even search stations by state, let alone city – and searching by call letters is again an entry where you have to scroll through every letter of the alphabet and enter each character, which is a pain.
Connectivity: No complaints, it starts up relatively quick once you have your wireless settings configured. Regarding connecting to a station url, it depends on the stream format… most .AAC streams begin playing quickly, .mp3 streams fairly quick, .WMA streams a few seconds longer, but none are frustratingly slow. It also played all streams consistantly for hours at a time without interruption.
Sound quality: Fair at best. I guess for $150 I expected this radio to sound at least as good as some of the $50 Sony or Panasonic tabletop radios from the past. There is no reason it couldn’t on most mid-to-higher kbps streams – but Grace chose to cut costs on one of the most important aspects of any radio – the speaker – and the speaker quality is about on par with that of a $20 GE table radio. That would be OK if the radio cost $50, but for what these relatively cheap to build radios cost the consumer, I expect the materials and components used to be of higher quality.
Remote Control: Poor quality, poor layout, and many times you have to hit keys two or three times to get a response. I thought the included battery might have been old, but the Duracell replacement battery I bought did not improve the remote’s performance.
The bottom line: If you want an internet radio that somewhat gives you the look and feel of your old tabletop radio, and you use the presets a good part of the time, it’s an OK radio. I don’t hate it, and have actually had some fun with it, but in reality it is worth about $79 tops. I would however look at the Logitech Squeezebox before this or any other internet radio. I played with one at Best Buy a couple weeks back and the build and sound quality is light-years better, and it also offers an optional battery pack.
If the old-time feel of a tabletop radio isn’t important and you are wanting to just tune in stations from around the world and have decent sound quality, and if you own an iPhone, Blackberry or Android smartphone with 3G and/or a wi-fi connection, I recommend one of the many decent wireless bluetooth speaker systems (I own the Altec Lansing inMotion SoundBlade Bluetooth A2DP Speaker/Speakerphone, which sounds better than this Grace unit, operates on either the supplied AC power adapter or batteries, and cost me around $50) and install some free to very cheap apps on your smartphone such as Pandora, Slacker, Sirius/XM, iHeartRadio, Yahoo Music, WunderRadio and RadioTime. The beauty of smartphone apps is you can also use them with many new car audio systems via bluetooth, at the office, at the beach, and pretty much anywhere you have either 3G data or a wi-fi connection.
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|Innavator III,
This is my first experience with an Internet radio, so I cannot compare it to anything else except regular radio and the Sirius radio that is in my car. I was around before TV, the technology today never ceases to amaze me. I just remember when I was a kid listening to Superman on a small radio by my bed—that was a good as radio was.
I had very little problem setting this with my wireless router, I have a secure network and it took me several attempts to get the WEP key entered correctly as I was using the entire key-phrase on my Actiontec PK5000. I since changed it to something more simple on the ISP website—instead of 25 characters I now have 8. That was the only hiccup!
The radio scanned for available Internet connections and found several then found and recognized mine. I am now getting radio! I was overwhelmed by the number of stations available. You can select the genre; sports, talk radio, news, music type etc. and then check out the stations that are available in that category (more than I would want to count). After you find a station that you like you can enter it into memory, so that you can instantly go to that station, there are ten presets available. It will display the song title and performer or artist. The display is easy to read, the brightness is adjustable and it displays the time when the unit is off. This will also function as an alarm clock. The remote control is rather small and very easy to use, very helpful if you listen to the radio while in bed.
I am still exploring stations to find the ones that I like the most, just too many to chose from. I will not be using Sirius as I get that on Directv, but it is available. Pandora and Live 365 are also available, I have not been there yet as I have spent most of my time exploring stations that are already available. I live in the Phoenix area and I find the local radio stations on the dial too. I’m having a lot of fun with this radio checking out all that is available—-do I have too much time on my hands? I am retired and am finding this a great source of entertainment.
I would like to mention the sound. The speaker is adequate, certainly a lot better than what I listened to when I was a kid. It is ported through the back with the 5″ speaker facing the front. I hooked up a pair of my wife’s ear-buds—now I get the full stereo and a much richer and full sound. I intend to next attach it to our home sound system—I am just thinking that will be some kick-butt audio.
I would recommend this unit to anyone who really is into a music library and wants unlimited choices in radio and does not want to be concerned about reception problems.
Hope this will be some help to those who hesitate getting more involved in the Internet related field. It was really easy to set up and is providing much enjoyment–I have very limited computer/Internet experience compared to my grand-kids.
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|Is this Granny’s Christmas?,
Yes! Your Boomer granny can set the Grace Digital GSI-IR2500 Wi-Fi Internet Radio up all on her own (if she has a wireless router).
Other younger and wiser reviewers will tell you all about the technical aspects far better than I can, but I can at least assure you that the Grace Digital does have universal appeal. With music, news, and sports from around the globe, 17,000+ radio stations, and 20,000+ on demand radio programs, I have a lot to like.
But it’s the Pandora radio individual stations that put the icing on the cake for me. After registering at the Grace website, I was able to set up my own stations. I entered the name of my favorite artist, and now have my own easy-to-return-to station playing similar music.
Now to convince Gramps that he needs to listen to Radio France and brush up on his French so we can order brioche and cafe with elan.
The bottom line: Five stars. It’s easy to set up and use and provides many listening choices.
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