Thanks, McG: that's the kind of thing I'm up to, along with transcribing my old recordss (as in Sound archives decaying). It's the clever bits you refer to that I'm particularly interested in, as I'msure there are a lot of things I won't pick up without a bit of nudging in the right direction. It would be nice, for instance, to be able to change the equalisation curve to the one appropriate for the particular recording, or remove noise more accurately than I do now, or ... how can I separate the two stereo tracks into two distinct files?

Over to you, folks!