Converting Audio from Vinyl to MP3?

Posted by Cliff on Monday December 10, 2001 @05:15AM from the those-large-groovy-disks-that-came-before-cds dept.

superpat asks: "My father-in-law recently disposed of his turntable, and I foolishly volunteered to rip his vinyl from my turntable to CDs. The process seems to be: rip to WAV -> process to remove surface noise, find track boundaries, encode as MP3 -> burn CD. Presumably I can use sound recorder to rip from the line in port to a WAV (I'm on Windows ME, unfortunately), and I have RealJukebox with Roxio CD Creator to do the last step. Now there seems an amazing variety of software available to do the middle stage, from comprehensive general purpose sound processing packages such as Soundforge to special purpose apps such as LP Ripper. Has anybody has any success with this process? Any recommendations?" Has anyone had luck with a specific program or set of programs that might make this process any easier, regardless of OS?

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In case you missed this: by Bazzargh · 2001-12-10 05:28 · Score: 5, Informative

Not tried it myself but there was an article on this on O'Rielly network:
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/01/ 05 /record_cd.html

Which reccomended Gramofile:
http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/

Don't be put off by the Linux-centric title - gramofile works on DOS/Windows too. Looks to be more fully featured than LPRipper and costs a whole heap less (ie nothing) than SoundForge _plus the noise reduction plugin_ ($290 on top of the cost of soundforge).

At that price it's got to be worth a go!