PC recording help please

[Guest tomdbomb61]

help needed please

ive got windows xp and a creative labs 5.1 sound card.

ive also got a set of decks and what im aiming to do is to record my vinyl onto cd via my pc.

at the moment my decks r plugged into my pc via the line in, and i can play them threw my pc's speakers.

what i need to know is how to record from the line in to say mp3 format on my pc, that i can then burn onto cd via my cd burner?

any help would be very helpful.

thanks tom

[Guest siu99spj]

To be honest you want to record straight to WAV on your Pc and then burn that onto an audio CD. You can use Creative Audio Recorder for that.

However for encoding to MP3, you'll need to use an audio app. I don't know if any freeware apps (Or even if Creative Wave Editor) supports it, except for CDex, but thats kinda clinky for converting WAVs. I know Cool Edit Pro does the things (Its what I use after all) but thats going way beyond your simple needs (and budget probably).