Whether you will be placing an occasional audio file on your website, or a regular audio podcast, you may find yourself in need of editor to make changes to these audio files.
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- 123apps : Edit, Convert, Create your audio files using only your browser. (Scroll down to "Audio Tools".
These are just below the "Video Tools".) This is a "Freemium" type of business model. The free option lets you edit 10 files per day, and they are limited to 700MB. And you will see ads. The
premium option costs $5 monthly, the number of files you can edit daily is unlimited, and the max file size is 4GB. Plus, you won’t see ads.
- Adobe Podcast Enhance : "Enhance voice recordings for free. Speech enhancement makes voice
recordings sound as if they were recorded in a professional studio." Free account required.
- Audacity® (Free, cross platform) Audacity®, perhaps the most well-known and best,
certainly of the free audio editors available, is free, open source, and cross-platform. It is not only for editing audio, it also does a great job of recording.
- mp3splt-gtk : (Free, cross platform) "Mp3Splt-project is a
utility to split mp3, ogg vorbis and native FLAC files by selecting a beginning and ending time position, without decoding the original file. It's very useful to split large
mp3/ogg vorbis/FLAC files to make smaller files or to split entire albums to obtain original tracks."
- WaveShop : (Free, Windows) "WaveShop is bit-perfect, meaning samples
aren't altered unless they need to be. Editing a portion of an audio file only affects that portion; the rest of the file is untouched. Blocks of audio can be cut and pasted
without changing their contents at all. This is especially useful for patching a finished master without corrupting its dither."
- MP3Gain : (Free, Mac/Windows) While not strictly speaking an audio editor, it does
normalize MP3 files. Have you ever listened to group of MP3s and had to adjust the volume level because each file was playing at a different level than the other files? Normalizing
files "evens out" the volume level across a group of files. But MP3Gain is different because it uses statistical analysis to determine how loud the files sound to the human ear.
And it does all this without decoding and re-encoding the contents of the file, thereby maintaining the quality of the original MP3 file (no additional losses).
- Murf : "Go from text to speech with a versatile AI voice generator. AI enabled, real people's voices. Make studio-quality
voice overs in minutes. Use Murf's lifelike AI voices for podcasts, videos and all your professional presentations." Free to try, but with no downloads. Must purchase a premium plan to download your work.
- Wavosaur : (Free, Windows) "Wavosaur is a cool free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor
software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze,
record, and batch convert." This does not need to be installed and therefore runs as a stand-alone program, or portable app.
- GoldWave : ($19/$59, Windows/Linux) "GoldWave is a highly rated, professional digital
audio editor. It's fully loaded to do everything from the simplest recording and editing to the most sophisticated audio processing, restoration, enhancements, and conversions."
- MP3 Quality Modifier : (Free, Windows)
"MP3 Quality Modifier is a straightforward program that is able to easily change the quality of your MP3s in order to save disk space and/or to fit more music on your MP3 player
while maintaining the desired level of audio quality and keeping all ID3 tags intact!"
