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It's stupid that this thing apparently can't record from a computer or line-in onto cassette.
It's also unclear whether it can digitize music from cassette onto a computer with high quality, and if it can't do that that would also be stupid.
Digitising should be a given but as long as it has a high quality audio jack you can do it through that.
Recording onto cassette is different though because doesn't that need a specific writer head?
It doesn't necessarily require a different tape head for recording, but ideally a different head is used. For recording it should have an erase head though, otherwise you're recording over what is already on the tape. Digitising tape in high quality requires a good playback mechanism that has low wow and flutter, I doubt this thing has that, most recent portable cassette players had the same bad mechanism.