You can also buy a stereo Y-jack cable from Radio Shack or other electronic parts place, and take a feed directly out of the headphone jack on your receiver into the stereo inputs on your sound card. A hard disk recorder such as Goldwave will record the transfer to your hardrive and then you can go in and edit (trim) the gaps at the beginning and the end of the hard disk recording, to tighten it up. There are also programs like Easy CD Creator 4.x and others that will help eliminate hiss, pops and crackles from recordings from cassette and LPs.