Thanks for all that; I'm still rummaging about in the cyber-bowels of this thing looking for programs that I don't even know about yet.

Although I don't have a DAT (nor do I even know what that IS!) or a minidisk recorder, I do have a couple of old casette tape decks about, which although not of stellar fidelity would probably suffice to make a crude recording, at least.

I like to listen to streaming "old fashioned Gospel" music while doodling with the PC, as it is not to be found on any local radio stations up this way, other than a little smattering of it in between hellfire and brimstone sermons and pleas for contributions on one of the Christian stations.

It would be nice to be able to listen to some of it out in the kitchen while I cook & attend to regular KP duties, where we have a CD player but no PC.   For that matter, we could put a tape player out there and dispense with the CD format entirely, I suppose.