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Crosley CR249 BK Keepsake USB Turntable (Black) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Crosley
Category: CE
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $104.73
You Save: $45.22 (30%)
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 1782
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 17.6
Dimensions (in): 22 x 16 x 11
MPN: CR249 BK
Model: CR249 BK
UPC: 710244274951
EAN: 0710244274951
ASIN: B000W75XW6
Availability: Usually ships in 3-4 business days
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| Features:
| • | USB Enabled for Connection to Windows Equipped PC and Mac | | • | Software Suite for Ripping and Editing Audio Content | | • | 3 Speed Belt Driven Turntable Mechanism | | • | Automatic Return Tone Arm | | • | Dynamic Full Range Speakers |
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Product Description
The Crosley Keepsake can help you take your old vinyls and convert them to CD in minutes with just a few simple steps. The Keepsake allows those old albums to be recorded in a digital audio format for high quality sound on a smaller, more modern compact disc. It easily interfaces with the USB port on any computer by utilizing the supplied software suite. However, if you still want to enjoy your albums old style, then Crosley's Keepsake offers a 3 speed turntable for your listening enjoyment. Preserve your entire music collection with the Keepsake.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Good except for one small detail.... January 5, 2009
Great turntable for what it is, a good ole mono turntable. The only thing that I didn't like, and find troubling is that while it has 3 speeds, it doesn't come with the .50 cent adapter to allow you to play a 45 speed record. No point in having the speed if you don't have the adapter for the record. But if all you have are LP's then you're in luck.
 Cheap, poorly made, poorly constucted. December 25, 2008
Waiting almost a month for Christmas Day opening. I was exited I had a portable record player. I opened Record player to find a defective product. Platform for Turntable tilted, with or without transit screw tightend down, as if a spring had sprung. Records then played as if warped.
Tone arm couldn't track. The contruction of this product reminds me of a "kiddie' record player from the 60's & 70's but really poorly constructed. I am returning, and because amazon is out of stock am being issued a refund to credit card. I won't be seeking a new one from a third party. I will purchase a "real" USB turntable.
 Stylish but difficult to use December 24, 2008
If you're buying this just to have a nice-looking portable record player, then you'll probably be happy with this. It's stylish (I actually got the tan one, but there wasn't a way to review it on Amazon) and has built-in speakers so once you turn it on, you're good to go. It's not a Bose sound, but it's not terrible, either. By the way, if you plug the usb cord into the PC you can play the turntable through your PC's speakers (though I don't know why you'd want to).
However, I figure most people are buying this with the grand idea of transferring all their LPs to MP3s. You're going to be disappointed. First of all, the documentation is terrible. By the time you get all the connections right (it'll take a while) and get ready to make your first MP3 transfer from one of your favorite albums, you're going to realize you might have been better off just simply buying the CD or downloading the song(s) you wanted. To transfer an entire album to MP3 will probably take a couple hours or so. Then you'll find when you listen to the transfer, there are a few skips, loops, etc. I'm not a purist, but that will end up being as irritating as the way 8-tracks (remember those?) used to shift in mid-song.
You're better off just transferring one or two songs individually from your favorite albums, which may be what you plan to do anyway since it'll take years to transfer each individual album if you have a large collection. By the way, I also never figured out how to separate the songs so the album is just one really long song. I THOUGHT I figured it out, but it didn't work. Frankly, I was grateful (and relieved) I got the thing working in any fashion after hours of frustration.
Would I buy it again? I don't know. I'm tempted to return it, to be honest. Still, I like the look of it, and if it'll let me record a song or two from my favorite albums, then maybe it'll be worth it.
Here is how Crosley could improve it. Get someone who can read and write English to write the documentation. I'm not trying to be a smartypants. I'm being honest--the manual is a joke. Crosley should also think about using something other than the free Audacity program (or at least including the dll file you're going to need to make MP3s which I had to research and then download from the Internet). There are some good user-friendly software programs out there that will help you record from LP to MP3--give us a break, Crosley, and give us a better one because it reflects on your company. It makes you look cheap.
 A Great Find December 20, 2008
I've been using this record player 2-3 hours a day for about a month and I love it. The hardest part about setting it up was getting it out the box. The speakers sound great despite how small they are and they don't get fuzzy even when the volume is turned all the way up. If you're one of those people that always wants cutting edge technology and the best sound possible, go out and buy a fancy-pants home stereo system. But if you're just a normal Joe looking for a quality record player, this is definitely for you.
MP3 joke December 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think the sales pitch suggests that the set-up process is just a matter of minutes. How many minutes is that? 360?
I'm not a complete idiot, I can run Pro Tools and an Avid, but I've spent two hours so far and cannot get this player to give me an MP3. And yes I've downloaded the Lame MP3 encoder, which they don't supply but you need, in order to create an MP3.
I'm about to take an axe to this little black box...
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