Quote Originally Posted by Zen View Post
Do you have a link for that product?
I have an ION brand one. Honestly, I wouldn't recommend it. The stylus is so heavy that I had to tape $1.50 in quarters to the back end to keep it from skating across my records. (That took about 3 hours to figure out after diddling with the anti-skate device and taping money, one cent at a time, to the back end.) Once I got it balanced, though, it was easy to use. There are certainly much better ones out there. The only good thing about this one is that it was less than $100.

If you plug the turntable into the computer, via the line-out on the receiver to the line-in on the computer, you do this without a USB turntable. You can download the Audacity program for free http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. This is the part that makes it easy to record your vinyl onto the computer. Then you need a second program to put that download onto your CDs or MP3. (I learned this after I bought the USB turntable.)

The nice thing about the program is that you can just record the whole side of the album and then easily add the song breaks afterward. Otherwise you have to stop the recording after each song to get a break. If you don't have breaks then the CD sees the entire side as one song. There's no way to skip from song to song.

Sorry this got so long.