Thanks to everyone who replied. My findings are given below, in case
anyone asks this question in future.

My old PC is a Pentium 100, with 64M ram. Windows 98 will work on it,
but it would be more accurate to say it walks than runs, so I prefer
to stick with Windows 95. I can confirm that Audacity will not work
on Windows 95, even though the hardware is just about good enough for
Windows 98.

I was very interested to try Audiograbber, as I already have an old
copy of Audiocatalyst installed for converting CDs to MP3.
Audiocatalyst combines Audiograbber with the Xing MP3 encoder and is
very fast and easy to use - although sadly my version does not allow
recording from the analogue inputs. I tried Audiograbber with the
Lame encoder and it worked fine - except that the Xing encoder with
Audiocatalyst is 4 times faster.

I was impressed with CDex (especially the on-the-fly MP3 encoding,
except that my PC isn't fast enough) although I could not find any
form of level meters - a major failing in my view.

In the end I found a compact program called ALL2WAV which does
everything I want, although I did have to install a dll file to get it
working with Windows 95.

Once again, thanks to everyone who replied.

Paul



On 14 Aug, 19:32, "Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
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* *Eeyore wrote:

wrote:
Hello

I've got an old PC with Windows 95 that I would like to use for
converting a load of old cassettes to MP3 format, and I need some
sound recording software. *It doesn't need to do anything clever at
all - just start recording and then stop, saving a wav file. *Can
anyone recommend anything please?

I know people always seem to recommend Audacity, but that is only for
Windows 98 or later.
Just a suggestion. Can't you get a copy of W98 Pref SP2. It's SO much
nicer.

Absolutely. It runs on the 586 PC card in my workshop Acorn machine so
should run on anything.

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