I'd respectfully disagree that doing this on your PC is necessarily the best way. It depends what you want. I have a stand-alone burner that has been very reliable and is much easier to deal with in terms of tracks--while the LP is playing, you just hit a button and the CD demarcates a new track. The software I was using required, as someone said above, that you record the whole LP side, then cut and paste individual tracks, then do noise reduction, then create a file list for the CD burner software. Then, my computer CD burner only really worked two times out of three. The result is that I was sitting there editing for more than an hour on average AFTER I had recorded the LP to my hard drive. If, like me, you have 1,000 LPs or more, this is not a viable method.

With my other method, i.e. the stand-alone burner, I just wait til I want to hear an LP, and just record it while I listen. Voila, I have a CD of it. If I then want to clean up the sound I can take the CD to my computer and do that, too. But in many cases I don't need to. My Bandoggs LP had practically never been listened to, if you can believe that--I got it recently from a collector who had just had it sitting in his collection unlistened to!

I would recommend this especially to people who are going to buy a minidisc or a good tape deck to keep with their computer or cart between stereo and computer. Once you're spending that kind of money, might as well spring for the stand-alone CD recorder. Then you make a CD, and bring it up to your computer if you want to clean up the sound.

Steve