AGPtek® USB Portable Cassette to MP3 Converter Tape-to-MP3 Player with Windows 7 defaulted

AGPtek® USB Portable Cassette to MP3 Converter Tape-to-MP3 Player with Windows 7 defaulted
I am running windows 7 and I was able to get this to work.. Finally!

I ended up having to mess with the settings for recording devices under Sound in the control panel.

Windows 7 defaulted two things that keep this from working correctly.

1. Win7 sets the tape deck as the default Playback device. I had to manually change the setting back to the speakers of the system.
2. The device is enabled, but not set to "allow this device" in the control panel. Under sound -> recording -> microphone array (how the deck shows up in my system) I had to goto properties and manually check the box that said allow this device.

That gets you about 90% there. to actually get this device to playback into the computer you need to do the above and then ....

3. With the deck hooked to the computer, press play.
4. with the tape actually playing, disconnect the usb cable from the deck.
5. wait until you hear the windows "bing bong" that says the usb device is removed.
6. plug it back it.... you should have playback success.

I messed around for about an hour to get this to work. I hope this helps someone in the future.

Otherwise, the until is nice, it did the job I needed, to get some old masters of a radio show I did in the 90's converted to wav.