'pon my soul, Willum,you've given me some reading to do - which should keep me quiet for a while but before I disappear, I'm still a bit puzzled. My understanding is that Audacity has to be married up to Lame for it to work and I can't see any mention of this in the reading I've done so far. I've obviously successfully recorded onto audacity cos the graphics appear, but when I press the green(play) button Windows Media player tells me that it doesn't recognise the file extension, ie the file type or codec used to compress the file. Nero tells me the same thing.
Just noticed on the top of this page an advert for "free" audacity and for EasyRecorder V5. Wonder if the latter will do the trick. Wonder too if it's a freebie???

Peter