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Dallas:

There are two ways I know of to do the conversion from *.wav files (what's probably on your CD) to *.mp3s (which take up less room and are what you'll want to post).

(1) When I first started doing this, I got software (free--I am waydam cheap) to do it. The one I got was MusicMatch Jukebox, which was available on SoundClick, which at the time was marketing it as an *.mp3 player (they've since developed one of their own, which is not near as good).

(2) I later invested in a little recorder--a Tascam 4-channel "Porta-Studio"--which can do the conversion to *.mp3 all by itself. These days, I just do that, and squirt the file from the Tascam to the 'puter (which treats the Tascam as a portable hard drive).

If you have computer recording software (which I do not) *it* will probably convert sound files to *.mp3, too.

As far as where to post, there are a bunch of places. I use SoundClick, which is probably still the biggest; it has some technical problems, most related, I think, to there being so much traffic and SoundClick still using an antique operating system, but they're also one of the few sites (I think) still catering to folks like me who don't have high-speed Internet (I still have the curse of the Dialup Demons). Soundclick also had (and may still have) good instructions how to do it--even I could follow them, and I'm a technological dinosaur. And there are plenty of users there with a lot of technical expertise who are willing to help. (This is probably true of the other sites, too.)

Click on the link below my signature and it'll take you to my little "corner" of SoundClick and you can see--and hear--what it's like. You can do that with anybody who's got one of these URLlies attached to their name--and you'll notice there's a bunch of different ones.

This help?

Joe
www.soundclick.com/bands/7/joewrabek_music.htm