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<blockquote data-quote="Scythe42" data-source="post: 895089" data-attributes="member: 95833">Actually the three quotes &quot;WAV-Editors&quot; are a perfect example for what I consider crap. They are a prime example of legacy software that stopped evolving. Especially the last two who had its root in Win3.0 and never got rid of them. Can't it get more legacy?<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Audacity - horrible on all accounts - unusable, buggy. It's a perfect example of GPL software going bad by design.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cool Edit - became Adobe Audition. Product alone doesn't exist anymore over a decade. It couldn't sell for a reason anymore. First rebranded to Audition then rewritten. Older Audition Version = Cool Edit.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">SoundForge - Also dead. Last release over 20 months ago. No noteworthy improvement since a decade as well. Sony bought it and then it died a slow and painful death. Bumped major version numbers like there was no tomorrow in a final attempt to get some PR and rescue the product. Another bad move by Sony catching a falling knife. </li>
</ul>For the consumer/prosumer only Audtion CS6 is left - decent major rewrite. But the scope also changed a lot. And for a more professional digital audio stuff these products were never an option anyway as they lack professional workflow integration. The last two had it heights on Win98SE but died slowly with XP as digital audio workstations entered the Windows arena.&nbsp;Only Streaming Encoder without own resampling I know = Real Video/Real Audio. And competitors of that time. Yes, the company still exists even no one has used real video/audio in this century. Same as AOL who became a blogging company.&nbsp;And before you ask. There is really great DAW software out there for Windows. Also free. WAV Editors itself died with the rise of MP3. Pratically dead since 2002 when the iPod came to Windows and changed the way we listen to music.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scythe42, post: 895089, member: 95833"] Actually the three quotes "WAV-Editors" are a perfect example for what I consider crap. They are a prime example of legacy software that stopped evolving. Especially the last two who had its root in Win3.0 and never got rid of them. Can't it get more legacy? [LIST] [*]Audacity - horrible on all accounts - unusable, buggy. It's a perfect example of GPL software going bad by design. [*]Cool Edit - became Adobe Audition. Product alone doesn't exist anymore over a decade. It couldn't sell for a reason anymore. First rebranded to Audition then rewritten. Older Audition Version = Cool Edit. [*]SoundForge - Also dead. Last release over 20 months ago. No noteworthy improvement since a decade as well. Sony bought it and then it died a slow and painful death. Bumped major version numbers like there was no tomorrow in a final attempt to get some PR and rescue the product. Another bad move by Sony catching a falling knife. [/LIST] For the consumer/prosumer only Audtion CS6 is left - decent major rewrite. But the scope also changed a lot. And for a more professional digital audio stuff these products were never an option anyway as they lack professional workflow integration. The last two had it heights on Win98SE but died slowly with XP as digital audio workstations entered the Windows arena. Only Streaming Encoder without own resampling I know = Real Video/Real Audio. And competitors of that time. Yes, the company still exists even no one has used real video/audio in this century. Same as AOL who became a blogging company. And before you ask. There is really great DAW software out there for Windows. Also free. WAV Editors itself died with the rise of MP3. Pratically dead since 2002 when the iPod came to Windows and changed the way we listen to music. [/QUOTE]

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