I think some of you missed the point of the original question...

Kate wasn't asking about getting the audio on to the PC, but how to chop the resulting audio into 'tracks'.

Proprietary software separates audio into 'tracks' by detecting the gaps, and cannot detect 'tracks' where gaps do not exist.

The best way to deal with this is by using a wave editor as I've already suggested...

Another way, messy and unreliable, is to manually stop and start the playback whilst recording to PC. With vinyl this would be very imprecise, but could work okay with a cassette recording.

As far as I'm aware none of the 'ripping' software has a manual track marker system, but most wave editors do. In other words, during recording or playback you can insert a marker with a click of the mouse, which makes finding your 'tracks' a little easier.

Audacity only allows markers to be added during playback as far as I can see, but Soundforge (Sony bought it from Sonic Foundry and actually improved it!), CoolEdit and Adobe Audition (Adobe bought CoolEdit from Syntrillium and changed the name, amongst other things!) all have the facility to drop markers during recording - which is when you most need them!

My preference is SoundForge, which is the programme I use for assembling programmes for Radio Britfolk - I used to use it when we were broadcasting on BBC GMR.

Sony integrated SoundForge with CD Architect, which is not the best CD burning software, but it is particularly good for assembling audio CDs - you can see each wave file from within the project and open it directly with SoundForge. Another useful feature applies normalising and stuff without affecting the original files. Nero allows normalising, but slows down the burn process to do it each time rather than letting you hear the results before you burn.

Erm... lecture over!!

;o)