# Suggest for me some sound editing software

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-for-me-some-sound-editing-software/161696>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 16, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-for-me-some-sound-editing-software/161696 "2003-03-16T01:46:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-for-me-some-sound-editing-software/161696/1 "2003-03-16T01:46:50Z")

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I’m looking for some really basic and free sound editing software that will run on my shiny new eMac running OS X.2. I need it to be able to let me work on mp3s, WAVs and Mac-format sound files, including converting the latter two back and forth between file types and to allow me to merge files of different types into single files in mp3 format. I don’t need any bells and whistles (except insomuch as I might want to use the sounds of bells and whistles) although the ability to equalize volumes would be nice but is not critical. Did I mention that this needs to be free?

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-for-me-some-sound-editing-software/161696/2 "2003-03-17T15:20:02Z")

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**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-for-me-some-sound-editing-software/161696/3 "2003-03-18T13:37:01Z")

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I like Goldwave. It’s shareware, and does everything I need it to. I don’t know if it works on Mac, but if it does, I’d use that.

You should be able to find it fairly easily through Google.

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**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-for-me-some-sound-editing-software/161696/4 "2003-03-18T17:19:03Z")

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I agree with the Goldwave recommendation without reservation.

[http://www.goldwave.com](http://www.goldwave.com)