USB is the best way, yes, and use J River or Foobar. There are many others too, but those 2 have plenty of supporters here. Let me know if u run into any issues. I own the Zodiac Gold and eval'd the wonderful Plus for many weeks. Although I am primarily MAC OSX or Linux (Voyage MPD) I can help on the pc side too (it's where I rip and convert everything).
By the way, the Plus will start to really sing at 500 hours, and be glorious at 800 hours.
