Actually you are too late for the good old days of music downloads. The viruses and the jerks have taken over and it's too risky now to download without paying a fee. Also our awaremess of what constitutes "intellectual property" has become more clarified, and well it's not nice tos teal something that someone is selling for money. There are many sites, some you pay a fee for unlimited downloads and others you pay by the album or the song. Find somewhere that has the kind of music you like, join the program, send your fees via PayPal and you are in business. The file sharing programs were fun but are also very dangerous....think of it as STD for computers! You upolad your infected file, I down load it and infect all my files and then I upload it and there you go. Soon a huge percentage of the files are infected. It works much like a photo sharing site like Flicker or photobucket. Linda C

Take a look at a previous poster's cure at the link below. I would download Ccleaner and run that to remove all your temp stuff and generally clear out what ever you have on the computer that appears to be corrupt. This is an excellent cleaner, just install and run at default settings. Here is a link that might be useful: See how Sue cured it

Audacity records digital audio information. If you're recording a sound sourced from a record, with the sound source connected to a PC, it's gone through a A to D conversion. Which is what my first comment today mentioned as a factor limiting quality. PC level sound converters are of low quality generally. A really good one all by itself costs hundreds and hundreds of dollars. Whether a sound is stored in analog form or in consumer digital source, at the point where it's inside a PC and "recordable", it's digital. Digital is digital, the original source doesn't matter as far as ways to record it. When you say "OP", are you talking about the conversation above from many years back? PS - there's nothing at all wrong with sound stored in digital form, per se. Most modern musical sound recordings are stored in that way. But at the recording studio level, the sound is lossless and is at VERY high bitrates and VERY high sample rates, much higher in both regards than anything available or playable at a consumer level. Playback of such recordings over appropriate equipment sounds nearly exactly the same as the sound was live.

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