So I've got a 5G ipod, I've got Sennheiser earphones (PX100 and 200), I use Apple lossless and still I'm not happy.

It's not as if I've got a £5K seperates set up at home.

Without the outlay of a ripping service, is there something else I could do to record from my CD player to my hard drive?

I'm sure I read somewhere that there's something that can supprt recording on to Hard Drive from my turntable, although I don't expect it to come close to that level of quality, just a little closer to CD.

Any suggestions, I just thought it would be better.

Dead easy to record from LP - buy a dedicated audio CD recorder. Once you have captured the sound on CD-RW, copy it to your hard disc, then use ClickRepair
- http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/%7ebriand/sound/ -
to get rid of the clicks and then copy to the medium of your choice.
If your computer has a CD drive already, you don't need any ripping software - just copy to your hard disc and then copy to the medium of choice. iTunes allows you to convert regular aiff/wav files to MP3.

Oh - and worth adding that the results of copying from LP can be superior to the equivalent commercial CD release - if your turntable is good enough.

I use a Pioneer CDR 607 CD recorder - not sure if it's still current - this requires use of dedicated CD audio blanks which is why I use CD-RWs and I then burn to regular data discs.

Thanks for the help Julian.

My main focus was bypassing the reader in the laptop.

Anyway, I found an old article that said there was a device that worked as an external soundcard and could feed direct to the computer. The one they mentioned was a Soundblaster Digital Music, that costs £45 approx.

Have you, or anyone else any experience of this and how it works?

Hi Patrick

I'm afraid I'm a Mac user - well, actually, I am not _afraid_ at all - I am _proud_ I'm a Mac user - but what this means is, I have no experience at all of a Soundblaster.

Sorry.