From the GoldWave web site:
GoldWave is a digital audio editor. It is ideal for people who
need to work with audio for CD editing, games, Java applications,
Web pages, radio and TV, or just for fun. You can use it to make
everything from elaborate answering machine messages to professional,
high quality CD audio content.
If you need to transfer old albums to CDs, GoldWave helps you record
the album to a file on your computer. You can remove background
noise and edit out clicks and pops before writing to a CD.
It features real-time graphs and LED meters, large file editing,
numerous effects and filters, a CD extraction tool, and support
for a wide variety of sound formats.
GoldWave opens, plays, creates, and edits .mp3 files. It converts
to and from many sound formats including .wav, .voc, .mp3, .aiff,
.au, and binary and text data. Special effects such as doppler,
distortion, echo, flange, time warp, and pitch alter and enhance
your audio files to create new and unique sounds.
This versions new features include batch conversions, automatic
pop/click filter, cue point file splitting and a fix for the Save
as command.