Vinyl to CD's

im trying to find an efficient way I can record my LP's onto the computer so I can burn it onto CD. anyone have any suggestions for software? thanks!

I just do it manually using Cool Edit Pro because I don't like those "automatic vinyl-to-CD programs".

1. Record one side of an LP
2. Save the different tracks in that one big recording as separate wave-files (by using the "save selection as" function for example)
3. Edit each track wave-file where needed (begin and end points, maybe add some fade-in and fade-out, maybe some pop/click removal and noise reduction)
4. Repeat step 1-2-3 for the other side of the LP
5. Burn all the wave-files on CD with some burning program like Nero Burning ROM

cool.. i was thinking about doing that too with cakewalk which is what i use. but i thot it was kind of a tedious process...what do those 'automatic vinyl to cd' programs do exactly? what is so special about them, and why dont u like them?

In most of these programs you can set the time of silence between tracks before you start recording, so the program "knows" where a track ends and the next one starts, this to automatically create separate tracks out of the recording. Most of the time, and especially with older LPs, the programs cannot always distinguish silence from music because if there is some noise (instead of total, pure silence) between the tracks on the LP, the program will see that noise as music. Eventually, you will end up checking each created track, and therefore I just do it manually (which doesn't take that much time). I know Minidisc recorders also have this feature of automatically creating tracks out of one recording by searching for silent passages, but there it also goes wrong most of the time.

oh is that all it does?? thats pretty dumb then..ive had experience with these in minidisc players, it can be convenient at times but its no big deal to separate them manually, especially wen u can visually edit it. thanks for the info, peace

I use Sound Forge 6 to copy the LP's to WAV and then edit the WAV's for volume, bass or what ever. Then I use CD Architect to reposition the songs I want into tracks for the cd.
CD Architect is great for tracking down songs (breaks) in a continous mix also. The programs are a bit costly but well worth it.