I realize this is stupi... BUT.....

WIth me being new… I am gonna ask… If I record an LP to a file in Audacity… Is there an easy way to get the tracks broken out individually after each side of the LP has recorded? DOes this make sense? Am I the first person to wondewr about this?

This tutorial in the manual is probably what you need: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/splitting_a_recording_into_separate_tracks.html