Fission 1.0

I'm with Mel, Fission is a great program for what it's meant to do. I have a bunch of books on tape, and I've been recording them as MP3s and using MP3Trimmer to trim off the silence at the start and end of the recording. This will be a much easier way to do this without resorting to something like Garageband or Audacity, and without reencoding it.

Some of you people are missinh the point of what Fission is all about.

It's not aimed to be a general purpose audio editor like Audacity, etc. Fission fills a very specific niche of editing lossy files in an uncompressed fashion.

Audacity/Peak LE/Garageband, et. al. will not let you edit MP3s, for example, without requiring you to recompress the file upon saving it. I am an archivist of many hundreds of radio programs which are stored as mp3 files, and I regularly need to edit out the commercials, breaks, etc. Nothing on the Mac (besides MP3Trimmer, which has the worst interface usability on the planet for what it's supposed to do) will do this...or do it easily, at least.

Fission looks extremely basic, if it meets your needs you would probably be better off using Audacity and saving your money. x Too many of the cheaper editors for Mac OS tend towards an overly simplistic interface which can be irritating in the long run. http://www.bias-inc.com/products/peakLe5/ Peak LE is a good example of a clean interface but with decent features such as full plugin support.

Fission sounds interesting and could fill a gap. Are QuickTime, Sound Studio and GarageBand able to open a lossy file (AAC or MP3), edit it and save it back to the same lossy file type without losing quality? Most of the other apps are creating transcodes.

Amadeus is still the best (and most seasoned):
http://www.hairersoft.com/Amadeus.html

Erick - Sound Studio all the way! =D (I'm biased though)

i just use quicktime pro....

don't you mean there is a free trial available?

I use garageband to do this and I love this program.

I'm disappointed in Fission. I make podcasts frequently and was hoping for an easier way to edit them than Audacity (no, Garageband is not it). Fission can only edit one file at a time and it can only cut out audio, it cannot add audio.

It's beautiful and easy to use to cut out audio, but I'm really disappointed by what might have been.