Oggie - I've tried Audacity as well since my last post, and I'd have to agree with you. i don't like it very much. the sound quality of the recording seems to be a bit better than that with Garageband, but it's not user-friendly. for example, normally if I place the cursor over various button icons, a dialgoue box appears explaining the function of that 'button'. This feature I found on most programs from Word to Garageband. But not apparently, Audacity. So you have to use each feature in turn to try and work out what it does, isolating it from other elements in the program. another annoying aspect of both Audacity and Garageband is the lack of a proper graphic equaliser. This would allow far better fine tuning of the incoming sound, for example, allowing you to boost the bass a bit or pick out a voice lost in the melody. Audacity has a number of features that don't seem to really work, such as 'click removal'. I was wondering of this click removal might help get rid of some of the worst levels of clicks that come from scratched records, but despite using it dozens of ways, it seems to have no noticeable effect on same.