The primary purpose of Groove Mechanic is to dramatically improve the quality of your old vinyl LP records and cassette tapes while getting them ready to record onto a CD. Although the program does not actually perform CD writing, it does allow you to capture the audio from LPs or tapes (or other sources) into audio files on your computer, analyze the quality of the sound, remove the clicks and pops that often plague older LPs, remove the rumble that is sometimes apparent in both new and old LPs, remove the hiss that is often audible on tapes, and work on an entire LP side (or cassette side) and then split it into individual tracks. The output from Groove Mechanic is WAV files, which are accepted by nearly every CD-recording software package. The resulting CDs can be played back on any audio or computer CD player. Alternatively, compressed files (MP3 or OGG) may be produced.