Get Audacious.
To digitize your music, you will of course need a truntable, but you will also need audio recording software for your computer. Although there are some more sophisticated options, free Audacity is a good all-around choice, and it is the software bundled with many USB turntables. If you downloaded it, decompress and install it as you would any other software package.
Setting up your own recording studio... Just a corner of a room will do.
Next you will need to position your stereo unit within close proximity of your computer so that the patch cord will reach. The type of cord you use will depend on the type of jacks on the stereo unit. If there are jacks on the back that read "out to tape" those are the ones you should use. (As far as the phonograph is concerned, your computer is nothing more than an overpriced tape recorder.)
Plug it in.
If there are no out-to tape jacks, you can plug the cord directly into the unit's speaker jacks; you'll be monitoring your recordings through your computer's built-in speakers anyway. Or you could plug the cord into your stereo's headphones jack; you get the same signal out of the front or the back anyway, and the front is easier to reach.
However, on an aging turntable of mine a hum was audible when using the headphones jack unless the plug was wiggled just so. This was just the unit's way of telling me it was getting old!
Next, plug in the computer
The other end of the cable goes into your computer's audio-in port. Note the icon associated with this port: it looks like a circle intersected by two triangles (older computers may show a microphone icon next to this port). If there is no audio-in port, you will need a USB adapter (or a USB turntable).
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