Ripping vinyl / encoding mp3

Well my current method is record straight into cubase, then export all the tracks out individually, renaming them along the way.
It seems to take a fair amount of time so the question is:

Is there a fast and efficient way of ripping vinyl?
Or is it just a pain in the ass and deal with it?

For me Audition is the weapon of choice when it comes to rip vinyl.

1. Recording the whole Vinyl
2. Hit 1 (shortcut for lowcut at 30Hz to kill the rumble.)
3. take a closer look at the peaks (are there loud clicks and pops? if so I kill them with another shortcut. I could do this automaticly but I want to change the audio only if its nessecery so I kill the pops manually)
4. Shift + A (shortcut for Hard Limiting. I use a threshold thats ca -1dB to -3dB lower than the highest peaks
5. Hit 3 (normalize to -0.1dB)
6. Hit F11 and change the bitdepth from 32bit to 16bit
7. Fade In (Hit Q) and Outs (Hit W) between the Tracks
8. let the software "look for phrases and mark them"
9. Go to Cuelist and change the names of the phrases (Songs) from phrase001.....to the name of the songs
10. mark all phrases in the cuelist, hit batch, choose folder and save them as flac

Well it took a little time for sure but thats just my way to get the quality that I want and it took ca 10-15 minutes for a complete vinyl (where the most time is used by my slow ass PC for calculating stuff)

peace

That's cool, you sound really organized with it. Can anyone compare Audition vs. Sound Forge? I've been using SF for years, but sometimes it sounds like it's not the best wav editor.

good luck,
you will find your groove.

I have over a terrabyte of recorded vinyl from my collection.

I do not convert to mp3.
and I rip @ 24bit 44.1k

I usually leave them as WAV/AIFF files and only convert them to MP3 if I need to. If you dump the AIFFs/WAVs into iTunes they can have metadata like an MP3 and you can file them appropriately.

As far killing frequencies and taking pops out -- that's just destroying the sound. The only post editing I might do is to fix skips.

Here's how I generally do it though. I just hit record in Audacity and let it record as I play each record / track I want to rip. I cut each song out from that big .WAV, trim it up, and then export it as a .WAV or .MP3. Audacity will prompt you for all the ID3 information before encoding. I repeat that until I'm done.