looking for the best freeware wav editor

[Axel]

OK - so I'm WAY behind on my MP3 stuff - and am looking for a good visual WAV editor out there with a bit more functionality than what came with win2kpro......Any suggestions out there? Also - if you can recommend a bona-fide for pay program with good graphics. I'm using Freerip for the 192 encoding and am quite pleased with it, so all I need is something to edit WAV files to take some of those awful pre-ables off some tunes.....

Axel

[Herb]

Not excactly what you've asked for;) but this I just found yesterday http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
Great for basic direct editing of MP3, nealy no footprint.

For WAV editing I use the package which came with my burner SW. Most have them included in the premium editions, so no need to look for that, sorry.

[Herb]

This one should do it for good and free :D http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

[Axel]

no doubt about it - audacity is a good product, but it leaves the file in an aud format - and if you translate back to wav - it's in monotone - not stereo - so no dice there - but thanks for trying -

still looking for "candidates" -