Hey there, well I have done quite a bit of Vinyl to CD-R work and have found the results to be very good. There is no reason why you couldn't have great success with vinyl to MD. My technique however, while producing great sound, is slow and labour intensive. I first record from my turntable to MD via my stereo amp in one a continuous file and worry about breaking it up later. This is the easy part. That is, I run a digital out (or RCA) from my amp into my MD recorder (an old and large component style unit), set the levels on the MD recorder and simply record. I then connect the minidisc to my PC via an audio capture card 'Edirol UA-20' and save the file to 'Music Maker 7' (a cheap version of Cubase or such) and from there I can delicately break the file up, remove much of the noise and alter volume levels and so on. I have not done vinyl to CD or MD since getting my Hi-MD recorder so am not sure about USB connections as yet. Next, I transfer the files to 'Steinberg clean 4.0' which I use to remove the last of the pop, hiss, crackle and so on. Finally, I enter the song details and burn the song to disc! Phew, what a mission...and yeah it is a real hassle, but at least at the end of it I get a sweet sounding and well structured CD-R or MD.