Thanks John in Brisbane and othersd.

First stage A OK. Well actually not wholly, but essentially - I tried doing it the line-out/line-in way, and it wouldn't work. I sui=uspect I was using the wrong setting or the wring lead. But I also realised that with my tape recorder I wouldn't be able to listen in to it while it was playing, if I did it that way, so I tried playing the tape in fronmt of a microphone plugged into the PC instead, and that worked fine. There didn't seem to be any significant loss of quality. It also means that if I want I can stick on a backing vocal or whatever if I want to.

(But I'll probably get hold of some kind of thingy that will allow me to listen into the sound while I'm using a line-out/line-in connection, to see how that works, and top avoid any problems with sneezing or phone calls while I'm recording.)

However the next stage with Real Audio has so far got me foxed - I was able to get it so that it played back through RealAudio on my computer, but from my hard disc, not from the server, even though I thought I'd kloaded the reklevabnt files on to it. Maybe there are questions I need to ask my Servicice Provider about what they provide in the way of facilities? If so, guide me, oh wise ones, as to what I should ask them.