Ok. The pros can skip this. I just figured something out here and it's got to be useful to newbies.
I was trying to burn an audio Cd from my mini disk recorder (Sony NF 810) of live performances, picked up with a mic into my minidisk.
Turns out with my new laptop it was really, really simple...
Damn! :D I spent all day trying to get my Edirol interface to accept a recording from my minidisk, and it turns out it's easier without it.
My Gateway laptop has a line in or mic mini plug. I had a mini plug cable from my SONY minidisk to the laptop line in.
I downloaded Audacity for FREE and...