Free Audio Editor is... you guessed it, a free audio utility for Windows. You can use it to record audio, or open WAV, MP3, OGG, or WMA files. And of course, you can use it to chop up audio by removing sections or mixing one audio track with another.

But Free Audio Editor also provides a bunch of advanced tools including effects like echo, vibrato, fades, and reverb. There are also a compressor, normalizer, and noise reduction tools. You can use Free Audio Editor to adjust the pitch of an audio file, or change the sample rate.

What Free Audio Editor doesn't include is multi-track editing tools. If you're looking for a free multitrack editor you might want to stick with Audacity, which runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. But Free Audio Editor does offer some advanced features and a nice clean, easy to use interface which could make it an attractive alternative to Audacity for quick and simple editing tasks.

There's also a deluxe version of the program that adds support for burning and ripping audio CDs, batch converting audio files, and converting text to speech. You also need to shell out $30 for the deluxe version if you want to save your audio in compressed audio formats like MP3 or OGG instead of WAV. But you can find free utilities, including Audacity, that perform most of these features.

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