Hi, think might have mentioned this in past, but, I specifically have a couple of records/LPs that I want to copy over into MP3 files, so can then listen to them on PC, or MP3 player, etc. etc. Either way, we hooked up a pretty standard old hifi, which had it's own record player turntable on it up to my laptop using a standard 3.5mm audio jack cable, but with an adapter on the hifi end since it had the larger diameter socket on it, and then I plugged the other end of the line into my laptop's actual stereo audio line in, started up audacity with a new, clean project, started the record playing, and hit the record button in audacity - note there is you use ctrl + F6 to navigate between the 3 primary sections of audacity software's interface, and, when focused on record button, you use the R key to start recording from your chosen audio input source, and then space bar to stop recording, and you can then either save the project as such, or specifically export either the selected bit of audio, or the whole project into actual audio files, but anyway. Main thing is found the wiki page on using audacity with regard to recording either phono, or old tapes, and, I thus had a sort of idea relating to what effects I would want to apply to the audio to take out the bit of white noise, and sort of echo/reverb it had in it, so I pretty much first told audacity to then select whole recording of each side of the LP's recording, told it tot then normalise the audio - pretty sure that applies to making all peak sound levels be roundabout the same loudness, and then after selecting one piece of each track which had only the sort of white noise in it before, or inbetween each song per side I told the noise removal effect to detect/interpret that white noise, and then selected whole track, and asked it to carry out noise removal across whole track. Lastly, after using audio player software, gomplayer, to set sort of bookmarks inbetween each track, to know the exact times of those points, I just selected each single song chunk and exported the selection out one at a time, with the track names, etc. Anyway, actually came out sounding pretty good/decent, and this was an oldish record - think had bought it from somewhere like the sunnypark sunday flea market stall a long time ago in early 90s, and while the sound quality may not be 100% perfectly digital as such, it pretty much sounds like an authentic record playback sound, which is more like what I wanted in any case...<smile> Now, if anyone is interested, here's the webpage relating to using audacity along with jaws screen reader: http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-1.3.3-Guide.html And, here's the audacity wiki page specific to phono/tape recording: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Transferring_tapes_and_records_to_computer_or_CD Now, not really relevant, but gomplayer is just a nice, simplified interface multimedia player that lets you control whole interface using context/right-click menu, and apart from track/file bookmarks that carry over session to session, it also lets you do things like quite easily speed up and slow down playback, as well as either applying effects like voice emphasis, or voice removal, but anyway: http://www.gomlab.com/ Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'