Audio Editing Goodness

Ok, thanks to a recent question I'm doing this post about editing audio.

First off we're going to start with conversion. There are many, many, many programs out there that can be used for audio conversion. The best few that I've come across are as follows:

Switch presented by NCH. This converts almost all medians of audio format....almost, a good program, runs smoothly, but lacks some abilities.

Blaze Media Pro is another decent program at editing but it's a little crappy if you're trying to go professional.

For those of you who want to convert to mpeg-4 audio...troublemaker (thanks for the post)... simply get Quicktime 7 Pro. This won't let you convert wma to mp4, but it will let you convert an mp3 to an mp4. As far as I know there is no program that'll convert strait from wma to mp4, but you can easily make 2 conversions. Wma --> Mp3 --> Mp4

If you want Audio creation software I would go with the one that suits you. Here's a slew of them to pick from, but there's still more.

A great audio recorder/editor is Audacity...good opensource, free....wonderful. If you're wanting to just get some loops or techno editiong going. I'd go with Sonar or Fruity Loops. They're both pretty good, it's just Sonar is a lot more expensive, unless you go with the XXL package of Fruity Loops.

AK