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I've been slowly putting my collection of vinyl into the computer, and found the best program to do it so far. I have an ION USB turntable, so the turntable goes straight into the computer, no issues there. Not the best turntable, but certainly good enough. I had been using Audacity, but it seems to really run the CPU even when it's recording. Don't know if it's a PPC issue, or just the program in general. I like the click/pop filter it has, and the MP3 encoding with LAME. I tried doing the recording with Final Vinyl, which works well enough to just record, but is a bit too simplistic.

So I just started using VinylStudio, and it's great. Interface isn't totally Mac, but it makes sense from a process standpoint, and works great - especially since this is the first Mac version (v7) of a longtime Windows program. It's worth the $30 registration for making the process that much easier - the automation of getting and inputting MP3 tags is a huge help and the biggest thing missing in my other methods. Audacity helps a bit with that, by at least remembering the tag info within the same recording, but it still requires manual input, and if you record in different sections you have to type it all in over again (yes, you can save the info and reload it, but it's a cumbersome process).