My grandma still uses a cassette player. Sadly it broke few weeks ago.

I try to convince her to use CD/USB portable player, but sadly earphone & wire just aren't her thing.
But that's not the main thing.

Thing is, my grandma had lots and lots of cassette collection, more than 50 I supposed.
Those songs are so classic and some couldn't be found in the Internet.

The only solution right now is to fix her cassette player/buy a new one for her.
But cassette player is hard to find nowadays, anyone know where can I get a hand of it?

This is something she had, not exactly it, but closest image I could find:


She requires a portable cassette player that comes with speaker, not those bulky type.

Where to repair/buy cassette player?

lelong.com.my

It would be perfect it it had a speaker.

or which shop still offers cassette player repair service?

This post has been edited by potatobanana: Jun 12 2017, 04:17 PM

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Those electrical shop should know how to fix,try ur luck and ask

go to those electrical shop that fix things. Usually they sell some of the ones they fix

Thanks for sharing, although granny would prefer a smaller and lighter one.

Electric shop that know how to service these are so scarce.
Even though they might know how to fix, but probably dont have spare parts.

Do you guys have any particular good shop that can recommend will head there when time allows.

Check Lazada see whether got sell or not. Last time I saw but it is aradio with cassette, larger and not really convenient to carry around.
Otherwise, you can try to convert all the cassette into MP3, buy a speaker with USB and play it from SD card or pen drive. I believe those larger sd card or pen drive can even fit all the songs in.
No wire involve apart from maybe charging the speaker.
It really takes time, you just be patient and teach her all the way and it will be good.

You try your luck in Pudu?

I got no issue with that, converting or teaching.
Problem is, age old people have many hindrance. Wouldn't want to learn much, hand-eye coordinate etc..

I could put into files, but she will have hard time browsing and looking at digital screen.
Which is why older phones with buttons etc also working better than smartphone.

Thanks for understanding.
Tried in Pudu coz they famous with electronics.

Repairing nope. Selling cassette player no. Please please do inform me if any shop that could help my grandma in case I missed.

Thanks in advance.

You can try mudah too, just browse around.

Sharing my collect Walkman ,try to repair and use it... Is good...


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Got the Panasonic finally, thanks so much!
Grandma is happy.
Very nice stuff over there

http://www.hifi4sale.net/t57407-list-of-re...ighlight=repair

wow very nice!

got to give you a cookie for that

go buy one from aliexpress

Jalan Pasar / Pudu Plaza

I suggest you get a cassette to MP3 converter later on. It cost me about RM100. If you want my second hand one, I can sell it also. I only used it a handful of times to convert some exercise tapes to MP3. Not seeing much use now.

Reason is the tapes will soon wear out, so best copy them to digital format when they can run. Why use earphone and wire? Just use bluetooth speaker ma.

Mind you converting is a pretty intensive work and you'll need to use Audacity to edit the MP3 especially the tail end, when the music stops but recording continues.

the cassette tape doesnt last very long. You can buy the best walkman but i dont think the cassette is playable anymore..