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**Bill in Co[_3_]** · April 5th 19, 08:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

wrote:
On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 12:05:22 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Nil
writes:
On 02 Apr 2019, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote
in alt.windows7.general:

Since the editor I use doesn't accept .m4a, I use Pazera's
"extract to WAV" function, and proceed from there.

You might want to look at the free Audacity editor, which can open and
save M4A format. It's not my daily audio editor (Adobe Audition is),
but it's got a good feature set, is in active development, an active
support base, and you can't beat the price.

Audacity does seem to be the default for free audio editing. I really
must look at it sometime!

I have it but I never really used it. I like Sound Forge. I used 4.5
for years and when there was a promo on 10 for $40 or so I bought it.

+1 Same here. I doubt if there is any audio editor that can compare to
Sound Forge in terms of its smoothness of operation, et al. And that
includes Adobe Audition, too. :-) But even more so if you add some
plug-ins to extend its capability, since it doesn't have many audio
restoration tools built in.