ION TAPE Express

AT LONG LAST, I AM JOINING THE 21ST CENTURY If you are approximately the same age as me (let us just say more than 40), no doubt you were brought up in your childhood with things called audio tapes, which came in sizes called C60, C90 AND C120 just to mention a few. For those of you that haven’t got a clue what that means, a C60 tape would record and play back for 60 minutes, a C90 for 90 minutes and a C120 for 120 minutes. In my youth these would be widely used to record the top 40 off Radio 1 at the weekend. I have lots of these tapes still, but unfortunately, their use has been diminishing ... more

Don't waste your money. There are too many reviews about this product from people who anticipate using it as opposed to going through the pain of actually using it. The bottom line is that it is a cheap attempt to solve an expensive problem and unsurprisingly delivers very mediocre results. Forget the idea that you are going to pop a tape into this device and then hey presto! - you get a fully ripped mp3 version. It is not going to happen. What (probably will happen) is that you will get a large aggregate mp3 file pushed directly into iTunes whether you wanted that to happen or not. The mp3 ... more