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digitiziing cassette recordings to my Macbook air M1

I purchased TR computers tape 2 Mac cassette player on Amazon and I cannot get it to mount on my desktop. I went into finder preferences and into utility and dont see it mounting and I have the recognize external drives box checked in the finder prefrenvces and still not seeing it. Is there something I am missing or a workaround any one knows of. This is so frustrating when a company says it will work with Apple silicon and it doesnt. Just want to make sure im not missing/forgeting anything. My 85 year old mother gave me a slew of cassette tapes of me and my siblings talking and playing and celebrating birthdays over the years and she wants to listen to them. I need some help Please!!


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My mothers daughter

Posted on Mar 10, 2024 12:05 AM

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Posted on Mar 10, 2024 1:03 AM

Is this it?


https://www.amazon.com/Tape-2-Mac-USB-Tape-Capture-Mac/dp/B006XEYNMI/


I see that you have an Apple Silicon notebook. It has a security "feature" that may be interfering with your attempts to use this cassette player. You have to approve the use of new USB or Thunderbolt devices – or else the computer will cut them off.


Allow accessories to connect to Mac - Apple Support


If that's not it, here are some other ideas.


There are a lot of cassette players on Amazon that can digitize audio recordings and store them on a SD-family memory card (like the one you would use in a digital camera), and/or on a USB flash drive. That could make the transfer to the computer a lot easier, since you wouldn't need to worry about getting the computer to recognize some random device using some random piece of third-party software.


There are also USB sound cards that would let you digitize analog output from a regular cassette player. You'd need software to record the audio.

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Mar 10, 2024 1:03 AM in response to Aimeepf

Is this it?


https://www.amazon.com/Tape-2-Mac-USB-Tape-Capture-Mac/dp/B006XEYNMI/


I see that you have an Apple Silicon notebook. It has a security "feature" that may be interfering with your attempts to use this cassette player. You have to approve the use of new USB or Thunderbolt devices – or else the computer will cut them off.


Allow accessories to connect to Mac - Apple Support


If that's not it, here are some other ideas.


There are a lot of cassette players on Amazon that can digitize audio recordings and store them on a SD-family memory card (like the one you would use in a digital camera), and/or on a USB flash drive. That could make the transfer to the computer a lot easier, since you wouldn't need to worry about getting the computer to recognize some random device using some random piece of third-party software.


There are also USB sound cards that would let you digitize analog output from a regular cassette player. You'd need software to record the audio.

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