Rip Cassette into MP3 with Ubuntu

http://askubuntu.com/questions/50447/app-that-will-rip-mp3s-from-an-analog-cassette-tape

So I've got a bunch of old cassette tapes that I've been wanting to listen to for a long time. I finally broke down and figured out how to rip the audio into an MP3 on my computer.

1. First, install Audacity and Sound Converter
2. Plug in you jack into the appropriate sound-in / headphone socket in your laptop or PC sound card.
3. On your tape, approximately forward to where you have the "loudest sound"
4. Play your tape
5. Using Audacity, press the record button
6. Adjust the input levels so that the sound doesnt "clip"
7. Stop recording and rewind the tape
8. Choose from the Audacity Menu - Transport - Sound Activated Recording
9. Play your tape and record until the end of the tape

Now a bit of clean-up of the sound recorded.
To remove the tape-hiss choose from the Audacity Menu:

1. Effect - Normalize. This will adjust the approximate sound level through the entire track
2. Effect - Noise Removal. This will remove some of the lower frequency sounds that is the tape hiss - just follow the two suggested steps on the window. Play with the results to get the best sound on your track.
3. Finally, save the file as a .wav file.

At this point, the source link tells you to use Gramofile to automatically split the big .wav file into individual tracks. I found this to be a huge waste of time, because it didn't do it all that well for my audio. Instead, I used Audacity.

1. Select the section of the audio for each track.
2. Export the selection as a .wav file.
3. Convert to MP3 using Sound Converter.

And there you have it! Did it work for you as well as it did for me? Do you have any other tricks I'm missing? Let me know!