I need help - in many ways. Tonight's question is triggered by Steve's move into radio. I think this is neat. Neat is a word I have used since I was five in 1968 and I think it covers a range of good things. But I don't want to be just like Steve...at least that is my story in public and I am sticking to it. What I am interested in is the device that would replicate the old casette machine we had where we kids would mess around with audio - recording toilet flushes, the sound of a creaky door, making Halloween sound tapes that kind of thing.

What machine do I need to do this. Do I buy a tape recorder and convert its output to Mp3 or do I record direct to Mp3? Maybe I will have ambient sound option where you can listen to the sound of me typing as little kids racing in and out of the room screaming. I don't know about playing music like Radio Steve but as SOCAN and the Copyright Board have yet to determine the issue and SOCAN's proposal that a general fee will come from ISPs, there is a good chance that the practice will be essentially covered anyway.   It would be nice to link to a file to listen to when I discuss a song.