Bill,

That dbPowerAmp is excellent....I'm now having tremendous fun creating mp3 files.

I might start tagging on a few mp3's as a higher sound quality alternative to the dozens of wavs already at my acoustic musicians and poets sound archive

Listen online to classic poems set 2 music & unique recordings of acoustic music

I reccomend this excellent free mp3 conversion software to all others out there that like myself have struggled to find the wood for the trees when seeking the way of creating mp3 files. It only takes a few minutes to download on my dial up connection,and once installed its simply a case of popping a cd of your stuff into the player on your pc then locating your chosen track and adjusting the compression slider and bit rate (meter)thingy until you've got the mp3 file down to a sufficiently small size to send by email or post on a website.

Thanx a million Bill for your help I'd love to buy you a pint,but I guess alas your too far away,but I realy do appreciate your help.

I'll check out that other converter you mentioned too.

Whilst i'm on the subject of pc audio..I wonder is there a similarly genuinely no catches free audio mixing/sound studio software package available on the net suitablr for my ancient windows 98 pc ???

Thanx Again.

Jim...