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MP3Gain is a simple and elegant application that serves one main purpose – to automatically adjust MP3 files so they all play at the same volume. It does it without decoding and re-encoding, so the quality remains the same. No more fiddling with the volume between different songs.

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Free Audio Editor is a completely free audio editor that is powerful and full of features. The FAE user interface was designed with speed, accuracy and ease of use in mind. You can record you audio from a microphone or any other input device. Once you’ve got your audio recorded, FAE has various effects that can be applied to give you that unique sound. When your project is complete, burn it to CD and enjoy.

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Are you looking to edit audio files on your own? You may think that you are going to need some expensive audio editing suite but that isn’t the case. Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor and wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features you would find in the high-priced audio editing software to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record and batch convert.

Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO drivers, multichannel wav files and real time effect processing. The program has no installer and doesn’t write anything to the registry. You can also use it as a free mp3 editor, for mastering and sound design.

The Wavosaur freeware audio editor works on Windows 98, Windows XP and Windows Vista.

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Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CD’s.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
• And more! See the complete list of features.

If you are just breaking into the audio editing scene, this application will get you started on the right track. Once you have a good understanding of the basics within this app, you can always move on to a more robust app if you feel the need to. Or, if this works for you then stick with it. Remember, other audio editing apps that have more bells and whistles come with a hefty price tag. This one is free.

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With Orbit Downloader you can download video/music/streaming media from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora, and Rapidshare to name a few and save it to your PC.

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YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod. Although we concentrate on free Windows applications,  if you know someone who is running Mac OS X or Linux, it will work on those as well. This app runs directly from your iPod. You do not need to install anything. Your PC will recognize your iPod and you can start copying mp3 and AAC files from your iPod onto you computer. This program is not just for copying files, it has dozens of other features that you might find very useful.

Download YamiPod here.