> - do Batch processing (like fade in and out at the begin and end of > the sound convert format etc.) The snd family has some nice tools (sndfile-info/sndinfo, sndcompare, sndfile-convert, sndfile-resample, etc) and ecasound is quite deep and powerful for batch processing. And my personal "build anything you need" tool of choice, Csound. > - and finally to do DVD burning. There is a very promising new DVD-A project "dvda-author" (with recent posts on this list and elsewhere), but if you're looking for standard DVD video/mpeg there is dvdauthor (with many graphical front-ends), transcode, mplayer/mencoder, others. I'm not sure if these are in CCRMA. Best of luck. Kevin