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Free Alternatives: Part 2
Nikhil Rastogi, Oct 14, 2007 1133 hrs ISTA continuation of last week's guide on free stuff that's practically as good as the paid stuff
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Audio Editors
If you come across the need for simple audio cut-paste jobs to complex audio cleanups for recording sessions, you need an audio editor. Windows doesn't come with any built-in application, though is does have Windows Movie Maker, which can do simple editing, but which forces one to save in its own propriety WMA (Windows Media Audio) format. But you certainly don't want to use that, as it has quite a few limitations. The other option is the pathetic dinosaur of a Sound Recorder, which probably hasn't been changed since Windows 95 days.
Audacity
Audacity is the only freeware audio tool that can do a lot of what the big boys, such as Sony s Sound Forge, can. Audacity supports uncompressed audio standards such as WAV in addition to MP3 and OGG (open-source) files. In addition to a full complement of basic effects such as reverb, delay, compression, it also has great plug-in support that can help expand and make audio editing much richer.
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