> Select the audio from the beginning of the recording, past the initial pop from the needle landing in the groove
Call me old fashioned, but when I digitized a few of my LP's a few years ago I kept the sound of the needle hitting the groove, and the rumble of the turntable's shutoff mechanism picking up the tonearm at the end of the side. After playing the records so many times I had grown to expect those sounds to be there.