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I found a 20 year old box of audio tapes, but I no longer had a cassette player. I knew the tapes were tapes from where I recorded audio of my toddler's bedtime routines, and I really wanted to hear his voice again, so I ordered this. This device is allowing me to convert those old audio cassettes into files I can play on my computer, ipod or mp3 player. This device isn't a standard cassette deck - it does not record new audio, or play audio over speakers - it does have a headphone jack so you can hear what is being copied, though. How it works: 1) Install a small software program onto your Windows PC. The box says for Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7, but I am using it on Windows 10 with no issues. An internal paper said it also supports OS for Mac too if your Mac has a build in cd-rom. 2) Connect the device to your PC using small usb cable (provided, but you need USB port - and the cable is pretty short, so it needs to be accessible.) 3) Open your software program (Audacity) and change a few settings, which the paper walks you through. 4) Insert cassette tape into the device and click play (with headphones connected to device to hear what is being recorded). Click the 'RECORD' button in the audacity app, and click stop on both the app and the device when you want to stop. 5) The application will allow you to edit the recorded content. I haven't tried to use any of the editing functions other than clipping out extraneous parts of the recording with too much noise, too much silence, or too much obnoxiousness on the part of the parent or toddler. 6) When ready to save the file, select Export (which you can't do while it is playing/recording). You can save the output to various types of files. MP3, WAV are the two types I tried. Apparently you can also save as AIFF, GSM, Ogg Vorbic, WMA, AMR, M4A, AC3, or Flac. I have no experience with those, so don't bother asking.