Hot dog, I understand everything you said! I'll check out the Audacity & other software you listed and compare it to the others. Thank you
so much for your time, Sam, especially for the picture of the wire. That
really helps. It will be a few weeks before I can get to this. If you want, I'll come back when I'm done and tell you how it went. If you don't hear from me, that means something else came up & took my time and I'm too pissed to talk about it. :-) Keep your fingers crossed for me. And have a Merry Christmas!
(Arasina, see Sam's original post for info about Audacity software.)