Audacity Rocks! This is a completely free/open source music editor that can be very handy for everyone who is really into their music editing (but who can't afford the heavy duty mainstream gear), or those like myself who just want to do something simple like cut 5 seconds of garbage of the end of a track.
Audacity comes in Windows, Unix and even OSX flavours, and the windows installer is easy and convenient. The interface is pretty easy to use, though one surprise is you need to install the LAME Mp3 Encoder Library separately. Don't try and get LAME from sourceforge since it requires compilation. Instead use (http://lame.bakerweb.biz/) to get the lame_enc.dll and just stick it somewhere where you can point Audacity to it. Usually audacity will ask you where to find the dll, but in case you miss the screen, just go to Edit -> Preferences, File Formats and then Find Library.
I might fall follow up with some audacious creations and even more audacious quotes about Audacity.
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