I've "ripped" over 120 LPs and cassettes, all with MJ, versions 5 thru 8, and I've been pretty satisfied. All the records I bought new were still in great shape, and some of them made nearly-CD-quality wma's. Some time I'll have to try this ACL to clean up some of my other wma's-from-records, but MJ almost always did a great job. Only trouble I had: getting the line-in level low enough to make clear undistorted recordings. Luckily I had an Aiwa receiver with mute, and the mute doesn't completely cut off the sound, it just drops the volume probably 90% or so. Fiddling with the various volume controls in Windows might give the same effect. Later versions of MJ with the "Split" button in Record were much more effective than trusting auto splitting, IMHO; but in the case of albums with tracks fading into each other, or very short gaps between tracks, the best way is to record as a WAV file and then edit and convert in Media Editor.