Signal wrote:
"Woody" wrote:

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




64Mb is really too small for W95 and certainly for 98. You should still
be able to get hold of the right type of RAM - usually known as PC100
but PC133 will work perfectly well. 256Mb is more like what you will
need, then you should find W98SE will run quite well, albeit rather
slowly.

You may need to go to a computer fair to get the right type of RAM, but
it is still readily available.

You might be able to pick up some of that ram, with a better spec'd
computer attached to it on freecycle.


Indeed - I recently Freecycled a load of computer bits including
processors, a motherboard and a few gig of RAM. Don't mean to rub it in
- just to say it happens!

Rob