SOFTWARE TOOLS

	Adobe Audition Professional Audio Editor (Formerly CoolEdit 2000) If your Windows computer has a sound card or sound module (as almost all do), Adobe Audition can turn it into a recording studio with all of the features used by professional audio engineers. You can use it to record your own music, voice or other audio, edit it, mix it with other audio or musical parts, add effects like Reverb, Chorus, and Echo to it, equalize it, and master it so that you can burn it to a CD, post it on the World Wide Web, or email it. Once you get started, you'll be amazed at what you can achieve!
	dBpowerAMP Converter (CD-to-MP3, MP3 Encoder) Highly Recommended! Rip digitally sound from Audio CDs and store in a multitude of formats. Convert from one format to another, just about every audio type is supported: mp3, mp4, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio, FLAC and many others. Volume Normalize audio files. Windows Explorer Integration - right click Convert To.
	Cool Record Edit Recommended! Great visual interface and inexpensive! Cool Record Edit Pro helps you transfer tapes, LPs, live performances, Internet radio, TV, DVD, or any other sound source to your hard drive. The software helps protect your valuable recordings--just set the sound source, the recording quality, and volume, then start recording.
	Audacity Freeware Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.
	Free Sound Recorder Completely free basic MP3 recorder! Free Sound Recorder does exactly as it sounds--it is an easy-to-use software program that lets you record any sounds from your sound card and save the recording directly into MP3, WMA or WAV files.
	GoldWave Digital Audio Editor GoldWave is a top rated, professional digital audio editor. It contains so many great features, you will be amazed by all the things it can do. GoldWave is the most advanced and complete audio editing program available in its price range. It even includes many features (such as batch processor/converter, CD reader, and audio restoration filters) that cost extra in other, more expensive audio editing programs.
	PolderbitS Sound Recorder and Editor! The PolderbitS Sound Recorder and Editor is designed to digitize sound recordings of music cassette tapes, vinyl LPs, or videos so they can be recorded onto CD. All you need is a multimedia Windows PC with a CD burner and CD burning software, and with PolderbitS audio processing software you can transfer vinyl records to cd. Move all of your old recordings onto your PC by converting them into digital sound files.
	Power MP3 Sound Recorder Power MP3 Recorder(MP3 Sound Recorder) can record mp3 audio file DIRECTLY with various bit rate from 8kbps to 320kbps. No disk space will be used when recording mp3 files, some audio recorder may record audio to WAV format first, it will greatly consume your disk space, for one minutes wav format audio costs about 10M bytes disk space.
	Blaze Media Pro Powerhouse all-in-one converter, burner, audio and video editing software for all popular audio and video formats...and much more! Some of the formats supported by the software's audio editing and video editing include MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, and more. Blaze Media Pro includes an audio and video converter, audio editing and video editing, video capture, audio recorder, data CD/DVD burner, audio CD burner, Video CD (VCD/SVCD) burner, audio CD copy, effects, media management, playlist, full-screen video support, and more all-in-one software application!
	MediaCoder (Free Universal Audio/Video Transcoder) MediaCoder is a free universal audio/video batch transcoder, putting together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats with many extra features.
	Nero CD Burner (MP3-to-CD) Fast, reliable, and user-friendly, Nero is the best companion for your recorder. Learn more about Nero and dowload your full-featured demoversion for free.
	mp3DirectCut (fast mpeg audio editing) mp3DirectCut is a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for MP3. You can directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files for audio editing. This saves encoding time and preserves the original quality, because nothing will be re-encoded. The built in recorder creates MP3 "on the fly" from an audio input. Using Cue sheets, pause detection or Auto cue you can easily divide long files.
	FlexiMusic Wave Editor FlexiMusic Wave Editor is an easy-to-use audio editor for professionals and home users (for Windows). It provides a powerful and user-friendly editing environment for novice users. You can edit and record music, apply effects and filters, adjust stereo channels, save audio to all of the popular formats and burn songs to CD. It includes many features for audio editing and converting.
	FREE iTunes for Mac + Windows (MP3 Converter) Introducing iTunes—digital music the Macintosh way. iTunes features a clean powerful interface for importing music CDs to MP3 files, creating playlists, burning music CDs, moving music to your portable MP3 player and listening to hundreds of radio stations on the Internet. iTunes does all this and more.
	AudioCatalyst MP3 Encoder (CD-to-MP3) Expand your digital music collection with Audio Catalyst. It's easy to make MP3 files from all of your CDs - just insert the CD into your CD drive and go! With Audio Catalyst you get high-quality MP3s with very small file sizes, so you can have more hard drive space for your music. Audio Catalyst also includes the new Xing MP3 Player so you can create playlists, organize your MP3s, and more.
	Audiograbber (CD-to-MP3) Audiograbber is a beautiful piece of software that grabs digital audio from cd's. It copies the audio digitally-not through the soundcard-which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals. It can even perform a test to see that the copies really are perfect. Audiograbber can also automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and send them to a variety or external MP3 encoders, such as Fraunhofers L3enc, or even use some MP3/WMA encoders internally for automatic creation of MP3's.
	AudioAlchemy MP3 Edition AudioAlchemy MP3 Edition is a fast, easy-to-use, highly configurable, and affordable audio conversion tool that provides settings for speed, quality, bitrate, frequency, channels, and much more. Convert from WAV, MP3, WMA, OGG, AIFF, AU, VOX, RAW, PCM, GSM, ADPCM, g726, g721, g723, MPC, MP+, etc. to MP3 in a snap. AudioAlchemy MP3 Edition can also convert existing MP3 files to a different bitrate, frequency, and/or channel setting.
	MP3 Volume Maximizer (FREE) For the best possible listening experience, VARTA has now developed a special tool. At the click of a button the VARTA MP3 Volume Maximizer will squeeze the ultimate performance out of your MP3s. Quick to download and easy to use, the programme adjusts and maximizes the sound levels of your MP3s for an even, crystal clear sound, making jumps in volume between different tracks a thing of the past.
	Amadeus II Mac MP3 Encoder Amadeus II is a sound editing utility and Mac mp3 encoder that uses the LAME encoding engine to compress digital audio to MP3. Also included is an OGG Vorbis encoder to compress files to that audio format as well. AIFF and WAV formats are also supported.
	Boilsoft DVD Ripper & Video Tools Boilsoft provides powerful tools to rip DVDs, split and join WMVs, convert Quicktime and RealMedia files easily and effectively!
	Magic DVD Ripper Magic DVD Ripper is a very easy and powerful DVD ripping software, which can convert DVD to VCD, SVCD, AVI(DivX), WMV, MP3, iPod and PSP formats or backup DVD to hard drive without any loss of quality. You can then enjoy them anytime without DVD discs or burn them to blank DVD or CD discs using burning software.
	Xilisoft DVD Ripper Xilisoft DVD Ripper is powerful, easy to use DVD ripping software which helps you rip DVD to AVI, MPEG, DivX, VCD, WMV, ASF, VOB, MP3, WMA and other popular video and audio formats within a few clicks. Easy to use and fast than ever before, just a few clicks to rip DVD to AVI, MPEG, DivX, WMV etc.! Free download Xilisoft DVD Ripper to have a try now!
	DVDx DVDx allows you to convert DVD to VCD2.0 or SCVD1.0 or DivX or WMV in one step (including multiplexing, splitting). It produces very good quality movies in MPEG1/2 format and you don't need to have 5GB or more free on your hard disk. DVDx has been designed especialy for unexperimented users, it is a simple and intuitive program.
	WinAVI Video Converter WinAVI Video Converter is software for video conversion. By using our product, users are released from the limitations and difficulties of video formats. It can support almost all formats of video including AVI, MPEG1/2/4, VCD/SVCD/DVD, DivX, XVid, ASF, WMV, RM, QuickTime MOV, Flash SWF. Also, it allows you to burn to VCD/SVCD/DVD. A powerful AV compress engine can complete a whole AVI movie conversion and burn it to DVD just in 1 hour. You can enjoy the film with your home & PC DVD Player.
	TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Robust and Recommended! TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress gives you the freedom to take almost any video file and encode it to your desired file format including DivX 6 AVI, QuickTime, MPEG 4-ISO, H.264, DVD-Video, DVD-VR, HDV camcorder, and much more. This powerful software provides you with functions and features ranging from a simple cut-editor tool to multiple powerful video filtering and effects.
	MP3 Splitter & Joiner MP3 Splitter & Joiner is a very useful MP3 audio editor. It builds MP3 Splitter (MP3 Cutter) and MP3 Joiner in one, you can split, cut, trim a large MP3 file into multiple smaller pieces or join, merge multiple MP3 files to a larger one. Split and merge MP3 files directly without MP3 re-encoding, it is fast and no sound quality loss.
	Movavi Video Converter Movavi Video Converter is a groundbreaking video format converter you can use to convert video & DVD files. Convert video. Rip video. Save in iPod, iPhone, PSP, PDA, cell phone formats. Do it all with this powerful video file converter.
	Sony Vegas Movie Studio (Video Editor) Vegas Movie Studio™+DVD Platinum software offers everything you get with the standard version such as easy drag-and-drop video editing, integrated DVD layout and burning, Show Me How interactive tutorials. In addition, Platinum Edition provides added features, advanced editing tools, and other bonus materials to speed you through even the most complex of movie projects — from fullscreen DV to widescreen HDV.