Here are your results from the Audio Editors - 2008 Member's Choice Poll:

• Audacity takes the Audio Editors - 2008 Member's Choice BBR Gold for the third time in a row...“Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.”

• GarageBand '08 takes the Audio Editors - 2008 Member's Choice BBR Silver...
"With GarageBand, you can create your own virtual onstage band and play along on your favorite instrument. You can record, edit, and mix a song exactly as you want it, in pristine CD quality."

• mp3DirectCut takes the Audio Editors - 2008 Member's Choice BBR Bronze...
"mp3DirectCut is a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for compressed mp3."

Other contenders that received votes in the Audio Editors - 2008 Member's Choice Poll:

(These are listed by percentage of votes, alphabetically thereafter.)

• Nero 8 WaveEditor with 5.2% of the vote.
• Sound Forge 9 with 4.4% of the vote.
• Adobe Audition 3 with 3.7% of the vote.
• Soundtrack Pro 2 with 3.7% of the vote.
• Logic Studio with 3.0% of the vote.
• Roxio Jam / Roxio Sound Editor with 3.0% of the vote.
• GoldWave 5.22 with 2.2% of the vote.
• mpTrim (/PE,/PRO) with 1.5% of the vote.
• SonicStage Mastering Studio with 1.5% of the vote.
• Jazz++ Midi Sequencer (0.7% of the vote.)
• MP3Gain 1.2.5 / MacMP3Gain 1.9 (0.7% of the vote.)
• Pro Tools|HD (0.7% of the vote.)
• ReZound 0.12.3beta (0.7% of the vote.)
• Spectrogram 15.1 (0.7% of the vote.)
• WavePad (/Masters Edition) (0.7% of the vote.)

In the compilation of this data, some interesting statistics emerged:

• 55.7% of the users that voted may have gotten their favorite Audio Editing software for free,
• 26.2% of the users that voted may have purchased their favorite Audio Editing software, and
• 18.1% of the users that voted may have received their favorite Audio Editing software along with the purchase of another product.

And the (very) rough indication of platforms preferred by those who voted on Audio Editing software are:

• 39.3% of the voters may be likely to run their Audio Editing software on some kind of Windows computer.
• 35.4% of the voters may be likely to run their Audio Editing software on some kind of Mac computer.
• 25.4% of the voters may be likely to run their Audio Editing software on some kind of *NIX computer.

For your perusal, here is a table of data that was compiled for this FAQ:

Key for the "Acquisition" column:

• F = Free
• I = Included with purchase of another product
• P = Purchase

Key for the "Platform" column:

• M = Macintosh
• N = *NIX
• P = PC

All links verified as of November, 2007

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by Kylemaul edited by MSeng
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