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Before we start just a reminder note about copyright. This is much the same as site graphics. If you are putting music on your site that you wrote, hold the copyright to (if there is one) and performed that is then that's okay under most countries' and international law (assuming it fulfils international and locally acceptable laws about it contents and lyrics - i.e.. Don't put a song on-line if if against the law to play it in front of an audience). Clearly if you change your entire music collection or a film's audio track into downloadable files and place it on the web without permission from the relevant parties that is illegal and you might well end up being at the wrong end of a legal action. Between this the key is permission, so basically if in doubt don't do it and see about getting permission first (These thing vary from country to country and company to company - so we're not going to bore you to death about it and give potentially false legal info).

Hello, wakey, wakey ! Sorry about that now here's how to record a sound file

With Windows it is comparatively easy. You will need a sound card with a mic socket and a microphone (alternatively you can record something onto tape and use the line in socket with a set of leads.

Turn on your mic and talk into it. You should hear yourself through the PC speakers.

If not click on your volume control icon ( a small loudspeaker) in the system tray (down on the right side of the windows toolbar). Check the mute box isn't ticked for the microphone and you may have to fiddle with your volume settings

Now move your mic around to sort out any feedback (yup that's the high pitched whine you're getting. You may have to move your speakers too)

Now open a program called sound recorder (it should be in one of the accessories folders - on our win 98 machine it is under)entertainment) via the start menu (e.g. start -> programs ->accessories -> entertainment -> sound recorder)

Sound recorder as you can see has controls that looks abit like a tape recorder just hit record (the red dot button) and recoder your file hitting stop when finished (the button with the square)

Sound recorder allows you to play back the recording (and can do a lot of editing). To save the file go file -> save as and save the file (we'd recommend sticking to wav. files when starting out)

For Mac users the process is essentially the same (although your sound recorder may well be slightlt differentlt titled.)

Once you get the hang of things you can use your sound card to record from things like tapes or minidisc files you've made allowing you to save files without being stuck at your PC.

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