Well, I finally got it together to connect up my computer and stereo
so that I could make digital recordings of my cassette tapes. This past
week I've been making MP3s from my old favorites on tape, some of which
I haven't listened to in over ten years - fun!

Last night I discovered something rather interesting. In retrospect, I
should have figured out that this would happen, but I didn't. I recorded
an entire side of a tape, about 25 minutes of music. So I busied myself
with other activities on the computer while that was recording, such as
reading my email and RPCA, and so forth.

This morning I was going to take the big audio file and chop it up into
song-length MP3s. My hope was to burn a CD before leaving for work, so
I could listen to an old favorite album during my commute. But first, I
checked out the audio file to make sure there wasn't anything weird on it.

Hmm... what are those odd-looking spikes right after the end of the
second song? There are a bunch of them, all the same size, one right
after another. Some glitch on the tape? So I listened to that section
of the song, and what did I hear? Pop, pop, pop. And the pops continued,
interspersed in the next song, and the next one as well. Quite audible
even with the music.

I had been playing Bubbels while recording!!!!! <D'oh!>

Only the first song was bubbel-pop-free, so I kept that one, but I had
to dump out the rest. I'll just have to find something else to do while
waiting for a long recording!

Joyce