Putting my LP's into digital format is the whole reason I got into linux in the first place! I was tired of trying demo (crippled) windows versions of music recorders/editors, and I was too broke to buy one. So I got wind of some open source programs that worked on linux (also free), and away I went. I bought a preamp to hook my turntable to the soundcard inputs, and finally settled on Audacity for recording/editing, and GWC (Gnome Wave Cleaner) for removing pops and noise. I think I was using something like Mandrake 7.2 at the time, so it was a bit of a chore to get it all working. Nowadays I imagine it would be a lot easier, although like I said before, Ubuntu has always given me problems.
It was in Ubuntu that I was having problems. Audacity would work fine on Windows 2000. But when I tried the Linux version it would not recognize signals through Line In or any other source. I could never get it configured. So I went back to Windows 2000. I then tried Ubuntu as a dual boot on my laptop. I had other issues so now I’m back to Windows XP.
The laptop is in my office. The W2000 PC is down in the basement on a table that also holds my diskette player and turntable. Those are linked to a switch so I can record off either one. (Yes, I did try removing the switch when trying to get Linux to record). The two PC’s are networked. I have a Linksys wireless router attached to my laptop, and a Linksys wireless USB router on the Windows 2000 PC. No problem in Windows networking. But I wasn’t able to get the two to handshake in Linux.
BTW, the Windows version of Audacity has a pop/click cleaner.