When you first open the Spin It Again program and click on "Record a vinyl LP," you are taken to the "Recording Wizard" control box, where, among other things, helpful tips appear, including:
"If the record is skipping in the same spot, you might be able to get past the skip by lightly touching the back of the record arm (stylus). Be gentle!
"If you can't adjust your record player arm and it sounds like it's dragging, try taping coins on the back of the arm so that it rests lighter on the record."
"Fix a warped record by making it flat again. Put the record in its cover and make it flat again by stacking a bunch of magazines on it. (This may help after a few days of pressure.)"
Now I'm not making fun of these "tips." These folks are my kind of audiophiles, bubble-gum and bailing-wire Joes who take a common-sense approach to getting the job done (though I have found that a warped record is a stretched record, like a dented fender is a stretched fender, and no amount of pressure is really going to fix the problem--but heck, give it a try). But yes, I've tried these things. Have I ever pressed a warped LP in a warm oven to try to flatten it? Could be. However, I swear that I have never placed an LP in the dishwasher, nor in the refrigerator, nor in any other major household appliance. But I may be "guilty" of stacking various little objects on top of the tone arm to make it track more heavily on certain problematic records, or of tilting the turntable in one direction or another to try to counter skipping or sticking. You do what you have to do in order to make it work.
"Spin It Again" gets very high marks for trying hard to make a complex procedure foolproof. In addition to several wizards that take you through various processes step by step, there is a nice lady inside the software who talks to you in a sweet soothing voice. Besides a master wizard who takes you through the various sub-procedures involved in restoring a record, the program features a "hookup wizard," which guides the new user through the steps of hooking up the phono to the soundcard, and a "level wizard," which insures that the audio signal going into the soundcard is at the right level, and that the recording volume is set correctly to prevent clipping (this it does automatically).
I have found that this software is one of the most user-friendly applications discussed on this site. It does a particularly good job of taking a waveform consisting of several tracks on a single LP side, and splitting that waveform into individual tracks. Moreover, the automatic click-pop filter does a very good job. It does not have a separate mechanism for editing out individual clicks, but one could employ the freeware waveform editor Audacity to "mop up" any clicks or pops leftover from Spin-It-Again's automatic processing. A good application.