Ok, I mentioned Goldwave in my first msg. It's shareware, and a good starting point. Its not the best out there, but its free and relatively easy to learn over the stuff windows gives you.

I won't go into too much detail with it, cause if I just typed out what you have to do, my fingers would be sore, and you'd get confused. (Hell, I'd get confused first!)

So I'll just talk about it a bit. Goldwave is a wav recorder/editor. We'll use it to record your songs, into a format that your CD burner software will recognize, a wav file.(.wav) You will use this program to either record one song at a time, which is the best way for new users. This means, you will have to create a new wav file, at the right recording frequency, (44100 Htz, 128 Kbts, 16 Bit stereo) goldwave should ask when you first open a new file. It has to be at that frequency, or normal cd players will not recognize the cd when you're done.

Once you have created the file, you will hit record on the computer and then start your source.(tape) when one song is finished, stop both the computer and your tape.

To make it the right size, you will need to select the unused part of the wav file, (where no music is) and delete that part. This is to ensure you have no long blank spaces when you burn your cd.

Once you have the wav file to the right size, use 'Save As' and name your file. The name of the song usually.

Do this for each song. Name each song different though. And remember where the files are being placed. (usually in the same directory as the goldwave program) You will need to know this when you go make a burn.

And that's the next msg. See ya there.

Steve