answer:I bought one of the devices that is cheaper and copies directly. I’ll say that unfortunately, you’re always going to face one issue or another. Mine was that intermittently it would read something as “copyrighted material” and stop recording. There’s a reason for such protections of course – but in cases like yours and mine, it’s really just a nuisance. I think that you may have the best method in the two-step process. Playing the analog to a computer and using a different program to capture is the loophole for those copyright protections. What you have to accept is that in order to get a clean transfer, you’re going to have to invest real money, or use a service rather than doing it yourself.