Hi, does it play cassettes? My mom has a huge collection of old cassettes. Wondering, if I can buy this for her to play her cassettes?
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Oh, yes, it does, and plays them great. And that is why I bought TWO of them...A friend and I both had tons of cassettes and just hated to think of never hearing them again. Any box that plays cassettes is really rare these days.
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Yes it does. I have mix tapes that I made in the 80's and they all work perfectly well. The only thing I don't like is that there is no "window" in the cassette compartment which helps me "visually" in which way the cassette goes in the compartment. The sound quality is good and I love the fact that it came with a remote. The only thing that would make this a fabulous purchase for me would be if it was a three cd player so I wouldn't have to get up every 45 minutes or so to change the cd. But I can live with it.
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Oh, yes, it does play cassettes, and very well, too. I'd highly recommend it for your mom or for anyone else, as availability for buying (good) boom boxes with tape-playing capabilities dwindles with each passing quarter. Hope this helps!
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Hello......Yes, this plays cassettes too...I also have a large collection of them that I don't want to give up, so this fits the bill!
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Indeed it not only plays your cassettes, but you can record from radio or CD to a new cassette as well.
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Yes, it plays cassettes very nicely. That is what I use it for when I am rowing in the cellar every day. - Bill
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Yes, but it doesn't work as well as you would think. It's inexpensive so you get what you pay for. I now just use it primarily as a car tape player (I go thru many batteries) as I only have a car CD player. And I connect the cassette player to my AUX port in the car. I would really suggest buying a cassette to recordable cd machine if you have as many to convert as I do. Costs more to get quality recordings.
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I think so, but I'd get a second opinion. I had it shipped directly to my daughter, and she has a problem with it. Apparently 33 rpm records bump against the side of the case and they don't play properly, but that just might be the one I sent her. You might try to find one you can try out before ordering. Oops, just read the other comments, apparently doesn't play cassette tapes.
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Yes since the unit would have to be in the recording mode you should be able to play. You can play a cassette without recording so a record should be no different. The output on my unit goes thru an amplifier
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Yes, I didn't even remember buying this one, but since it is on record, I must have. The information from the manufacturer states< "38% larger playback speaker for enhanced sound" which would mean that you can record and play it back or put in other cassettes.
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Yes! I bought this for my granddaughter to use to listen to books that had cassettes that went with the book. It's great!
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I have not yet used it after purchasing.....my hope is it will work with cassette recorder to transfer from tapes to computer files. I bought it because it seemed it will plug into any type of music source and then transfer the sound to computer. Good luck.
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The cassette playerS are no longer working. I would recommend buying a different cassette player. We bought these for my mother in law for her birthday in June and it stopped working two months later.
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Yes-this Panasonic Cassette Player works real well with old cassettes, providing that the tapes are in good condition. I use mine all the time to play old tapes that are my favorites. As a matter of fact at the moment I am on vacation in the mountains and had planned to bring my tape recorder so I could play books on tapes, and wouldn't you know it I forgot to pack it. I am so angry with myself as I brought all my cassettes and nothing to play them on. I will need to purchase a second Panasonic to keep in our RV. Toinette
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The controls for the cassette are on the top. the button on the side has to be on tape. The buttons on the front are for the cassette. That's crazy!! I haven't played mine in awhile and I just tried it and it plays them awfully slow so I won't use it until I find out why it does that!! When I first got it I thought it played pretty good. Also make sure the tape is up and not down. Good luck, hope this helped you. Barb
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1/19/2013 Hi Robert, I was going to select "I don't know" when I received the Amazon email, as I really don't know, but being curious myself, I went to the Tascam site and asked the question there for you. I am assuming that a cassette is a cassette and the unit will play it. But I think you are asking whether the unit has filters (bias and equalization) for the different coatings on the tape, am I correct? Looking through the manual, the only "real" thing it tells us is not to use 120 minute tape "as C-120 tapes are mechanically weak, and could become entangled in the transport mechanism, we do not recommend their use." Now, back to your question...I emailed Tascam pre-sales information request and asked that question. It should be 2-3 business days for a reply. Hope this helps a "little tiny bit", and I'll get back to you as soon as I find out. Cheers!
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I have been using it now for over a month and it will not play on the B side of the cassette only the a side. My cassette player will only except the cassette with one direction with the wire sticking out. Previous one I've owned allowed the wire to come from either side that might be your problem. Hope this helps
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I don't see why not. I haven't done much with the converting to digital functions of this machine. But it does have a cassette port, I'd imagine it's similar to digital conversion of LPs. Good luck, let us know how it turns out!
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Yes, Susan. This was purchased for my 84 yr old mother to take to her church choir practices. She doesn't read music or hear as well as she used to, but she still loves to sing and is very active in her church choir and also a Senior Music Group my sister in law has at her church. So, Momma takes the cassette player and her 120 minute tapes that we also bought from Amazon as they are getting hard to find so when we find them, we buy several, and she comes home with her sheet music and listens to the playback and learns the songs. Hope this helps you in making a decision about this cassette recorder. We have been very pleased with the purchase Yes, Susan. This was purchased for my 84 yr old mother to take to her church choir practices. She doesn't read music or hear as well as she used to, but she still loves to sing and is very active in her church choir and also a Senior Music Group my sister in law has at her church. So, Momma takes the cassette player and her 120 minute tapes that we also bought from Amazon as they are getting hard to find so when we find them, we buy several, and she comes home with her sheet music and listens to the playback and learns the songs. Hope this helps you in making a decision about this cassette... » Read More Yes, Susan. This was purchased for my 84 yr old mother to take to her church choir practices. She doesn't read music or hear as well as she used to, but she still loves to sing and is very active in her church choir and also a Senior Music Group my sister in law has at her church. So, Momma takes the cassette player and her 120 minute tapes that we also bought from Amazon as they are getting hard to find so when we find them, we buy several, and she comes home with her sheet music and listens to the playback and learns the songs. Hope this helps you in making a decision about this cassette recorder. We have been very pleased with the purchase « Show Less
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Good question . . . I never got this thing to work at all, it went in to my cassette player and the player tried to rewind it forever since there was no tape in it to stop it. I threw it away in the end.
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According to the operating instructions, you can record from a cd, radio, and usb device to a cassette. Yes you can play from a flash drive(I have a flash drive with gigabytes of MP3"s and they play fine). This unit has good sound.
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I tried and it will not charge and play at the same time. The charging cord does not allow the device to seat properly in the cassette player.