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Editing sounds

This week, we take stock of a bunch of tools to edit sound files. You can add, delete and mix files as you please. Some of the tools are shareware, but most come free of cost.

Soliton

Soliton is a sound editor that allows you to record and edit wav files. You can view a wave file spectrum, change the sampling rate and amplitude resolution, and also to apply some basic filters and effects.

Filesize: 296 KB
Platform: Windows (All)
Purchase info: Freeware
Download location: http://home.bip.net/baxtrom/soliton.htm

Pocket Voice Recorder

Pocket Voice Recorder is a small sound recorder that can record up to 10 minutes of audio from your microphone or any other input line available with your sound card. The recordings are automatically organised as messages and can be easily exported to standard wav sound file format.

Filesize: 1491 KB
Platform: Windows (All)
Purchase info: Freeware
Download location: www.xemico.com

Audacity

Audacity is a free audio editor with which you can record sounds, play sounds, import and export wav, aiff, and mp3 files, and more. You can edit your sounds using cut, copy and paste (with unlimited undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customisable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal.

Filesize: 1588 KB
Platform: Windows (All)
Purchase info: Freeware
Download location:http://audacity.sourceforge.net

MPEG Audio Scissors

MPEG Audio Scissors is an mpeg audio (only) cutter that enables you to cut and join mp3 files at frame. You can process multiple files and save all selected frames in a single mp3 file.

Filesize: 587 KB
Platform: Windows 9x/NT/ME/2K
Purchase info: Freeware
Download location: http://tfm.profm.ro

File Audio Processor

File Audio Processor is an advanced mp3 file renamer, tagger and manager. It comes with a built-in File Manager for fast and easy file management that allows you to work with entire drives or folders, the same way as in Windows Explorer. The program features powerful file rename features and supports mass renaming and tagging. Everything can be done automatically; batch operations can include renaming, tagging as well as move or copy to any location on your PC.

You can also compare folders, maintain a list of favourites, view the log file and more.

Filesize: 14047 KB
Platform: Windows 98/NT/ME/2K
Purchase info: Shareware
Download location: www.sprintbit.com

All Editor

All Editor is a powerful, all-in-one audio editor that provides you with over 20 effects to enhance and edit your music. You can directly edit your files, view their spectrum graph, mix from other songs and more.

In addition, the built-in audio recorder allows you to record any sound including streaming audio from the Internet, games, RealPlayer streams, etc. It supports recording and direct editing and saving directly to mp3/wma/ogg/vqf/wav formats. Additional features include scheduling options, preview playing, and enhanced multi clipboard.

Filesize: 2839 KB
Platform: Windows (All)
Purchase info: Shareware
Download location: www.alleditor.com

All Recorder

All Recorder enables you to record sound from a microphone, line-in audio, streaming audio from the Internet or music played by Winamp, Windows Media Player, Quick Time, Real Player, Flash, games, etc. You can record, edit and export any sound you can hear without losing any quality and save it directly to mp3, wma, ogg, vqf and wav synchronously. You can also apply several special effects to the recording, including fade in, fade out, normalise, scale, squeeze, silence and others.

Filesize: 2685 KB
Platform: Windows (All)
Purchase info: Shareware
Download location: www.allrecorder.com

MP3 Surgeon

MP3 Surgeon allows you to trim, join and split any number of mp3s to varying lengths and sizes and more. You can also apply fade in, fade out effects and normalise your entire collection to the same volume level. In addition, the program allows you to create comma delimited (.csv) catalogues of mp3 files to be used with Excel/Access and similar programs. Other features include batch processing and MP3 TO WAV conversion.

Filesize: 1022 KB
Platform: Windows (All)
Purchase info: Shareware
Download location: www.mp3surgeon.co.uk

Compiled by C. Ramesh

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