I have converted over 200 albums using my Sound Blaster Audigy line in. A Sony turntable with a built in pre-amp. And I used Audacity as the recording software. I would record each album as one track in Audacity. I would then use the amplify plug in, in Audacity to bring up the overall volume without clipping. Then I would save the wave file and then open it in a program called Wave Editor which allows you to easily slice up the long wave file into seperate songs and name them in the standard music media format. Wave Editor was designed for recording vinyl but it lacks a amplify feature to raise the overall volume of the songs. I could do it by raising the input gain, but I found it so much easier to leave the input level at 75% and let the amplify plug in do the maximizing. Audacity and Wave Editor are free. I paid $100 for the turntable. The turntable did its job well. I could have bought a pre-amp for my 30year old 40 pound Pioneer P5 turntable. But sound wise the Sony did damn good. I then did the same with about 100 cassettes. The results I obtained sound better than store bought cd's of the same songs. Im my opinion. The bass and mids are so much better.
