There are a lot of audio tools for Linux. Some of them even work! I have not tried 'ecasound' which several people have mentioned, but have thrown together a wav file editor which I call 'afix' available on my web site. But Geoff is right, it is not all that obvious how to use it, and I have not yet written any manual for it. I have used it intensively for many months now though, and it is robust and does most of what I need. I plan to develop it further but - who knows when? The next feature to be added will be a simulated automatic gain control (agc). The program relies on the availability of mpg123 to convert from mp3 to wav format, trplayer and vsound to convert from realaudio to wav format, lame to convert back into mp3, and sox to do other conversions and play sample portions. If any of these utilities is missing there will be parts of afix that you cannot use. Be warned also that vsound does not always work as advertised for most users on most systems. I have found it to be great fun to work with audio files, particularly on a fast machine with lots of ram and disk space. If anyone wants to play with the program, the source code is included with the package and I will be happy to 'consult' about its use. But you know, if you are comfortable with basic tools such as 'cat', 'dd', and 'sox', you can do a lot of simple editing without a formal audio editor. I began by putting together a bunch of scripts based on those tools, but soon found there were some things I wanted to do that were just plain easier to do in C++ code than in bash scripts. But one way or another, the Linux environment is a great playground for audio toys. Chuck My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Gibbous (77% of Full)
