on 3/21/04 2:00 AM, audities-owner@smoe.org at audities-owner@smoe.org
wrote:

> On Mar 20, 2004, at 9:28 AM, Dale_ThisIsPop wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking for something that:
>> 
>> 1) works on a Windows PC (I'm not a Mac guy)
>> 
>> 2) allows me to edit sound files - namely getting rid of silence at the
>> beginning or end of a song to tighten up the mix
>> 
>> 3) can control the over all volume levels on a disk to even out the
>> audio
>> levels of a mix
> 
> 
> I think iTunes for Windows will satisfy the above three, and it's free.
> It's a nice enough app, at least on the Mac side.  And you can always
> trash it if it doesn't suit.
> 
> 
> 
> - Steve

Not so - iTunes is great for ripping files (or converting mp3s to wavs or
aiffs), but you can't save the volume change info when copying the file, and
the length editing is only good for playback within iTunes.  It's very good
at what it does, but editing length or adjusting volume to exportable files
- a big NO (unless they've changed iTunes dramatically in OS X - I'm still
in OS 9.1).  A program like WaveLab is probably the best way to be able to
do everything you want.  I used to tweak mp3 files by converting to aiff and
editing in a Mac based program called Jasmine, and then taking the new aiff
and converting back to mp3.  Worked great, and was fairly inexpensive.
Certainly there must be a program similar to Jasmine for Windows - after
all, there's more PC software than Mac...

Brioohs