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Review on 🎧 Digitnow USB Audio Capture Card Grabber: Convert Vinyl and Cassette Tapes to Digital MP3 Format on Mac & Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP by David Dober

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I couldn't find the exact information you wanted before ordering so I thought I'd give it to everyone else. General Information: - This is a "Full Speed" device (12 Mbit/s), not a "High Speed" device (480 Mbit/s). There's still enough bandwidth for 2 channels and the extra latency is only important for Live (and probably won't be noticed) Competitor products advertise USB 2.0 and I'd be curious if they actually offer 480Mbps or not. The system sees this as a two-channel input (output jack), but it is only correctly identified as an input. The supplied CD does not contain a floppy disk drive. Just an old version of the open source audio tool Audacity. (see image) Don't use this, just download the latest version Mac specific: the device works without drivers on macOS Mojave (10.14.x). Just plug it in. I assume it works with the latest version of macOS, but haven't tried it with anything else. It doesn't seem possible to change the sample rate from a Mac (I haven't tried it on Windows). It is tuned to 48kHz. You can usually change this in the Audio MIDI Setup application, but not for this device (see image). It's not perfect, but it's not the end of the world either. The supplied CD does not contain any drives. Just an old version of the open source audio tool Audacity. (see image) Don't use this, just download the latest version or use it with QuickTime Player or GarageBandiOS: - This is a more obscure use case, but the device will also work on iOS with an Apple Lightning to USB3 camera adapter. I've tried both with and without power connected and it worked both times. I'm assuming this will also work with the Apple Lightning to USB Camera Adapter, but haven't tested it. An input-only device is fine on iOS, as the operating system seems to have a limitation that if a USB device has an input and an output, both must be used (you can't use headphones connected to an iOS device use). contains a few screenshots showing: - USB device information - Received audio information - Information from audio MIDI setup - CD list

Pros
  • Internal components
Cons
  • Questionable purchase for the elderly