The hardware has easy to follow instructions. The software, not so much, but with the aid of these reviews on Amazon it wasn't too hard. The first try, I recorded the wav file from my LP, and split it into tracks ok, but when I burned the CD it only recorded the first track. Then I tried again, numbering all the tracks (and skipping the dead space where I turned the record over) and VOILA - a playable CD. I figured it out trial and error. I didn't find the online help very useful. I'm a newbie to digital audio files so this may be obvious to most people.Who knows, maybe this'll make me buy an MP3 player so I can try making mp3 files.