Digitizing LPs

I have put together an inexpensive and extremely satisfying system to do high quality needle drops. You can read the post on the Atlanta Audio Club forums by clicking here.

I don’t want to create CDs, I just want to send a copy of each to hard drives so I can stream them. I am digitizing my CDs too.

@echolane I understand what you're saying but I'm a bit confused by the last sentence in your statement "I'm digitizing my CD's too."

Just to clarify, the data stored on a CD is already in a digital format.
CD/DVD's are digital storage media. When your computer reads the information on a CD/DVD, it is reading 0's and 1's.  There is no analog information stored on the CD.   LP's on the other hand are analog storage media and require conversion to digital before you can store and/or stream the information on them.  But you already knew that.

My audio dealer has a large vinyl and tape collection. He spends hours converting music on LP and analog tape to digital, except he burns CD's to play in his audio store.  Not sure what his equipment setup is, except to say it's very expensive stuff - but that's his thing.

Have fun!

I’m not sure if Ayre still makes or sells them but I would check out the Ayre QA-9, this A/D convertor is well known to produce excellent results. So if you have a nice vinyl rig and cart, this could be a good solution to convert to digital. Good luck!

https://www.stereophile.com/content/ayre-acoustics-qa-9-usb-ad-converter-page-3

I am in the same boat as the OP.  For 12 years, I have been slowly digitizing my LPs, about 3 or 4 per week.  Until recently, the process was:  Clean the LP > Record it to CD-R using a Marantz pro-sumer CD recorder, inserting track splits on the fly with the remote control (and often missing the right moment) > Rip the CD-R to my server.  Obviously this is limited to 16/44.  Six months ago, I got my Sweetvinyl Sugarcube SC-2.  This reduces the clicks and pops, as well as digitizes the signal up to 24/192.  However, as the software is still in development, it will not yet split tracks or send the digitized files to a server over a home network.  The recordings land on an attached USB thumb drive.  From there, you can load it onto a server, but you will have to tag and split the tracks somehow.  Tagging I can do, although manual tagging is a PITA - I do it whenever dBPoweramp can't find the metadata of a digitized LP.  Track splitting I lack the software to do.  So I am impatiently waiting for the Sweetvinyl team to implement track splitting, which is promised.

Having heard dgarretson's digitized DSD files, I can vouch that they are nearly indistinguishable from the original LP.  That said, dgarretson is also somewhat of a technical wiz, and knows how to put this stuff together and make it work well.  I lack the time and knowledge for this sort of thing, so the Sugarcube is the answer for me, assuming they eventually deliver all the functionality they have promised.

Look at Vinyl Studio. It allows you to split tracks and does tag lookup. It also does a good job of cleanup, although your Sugarcube is doing that already. Only $29 and has a 30 day free trial.