Here is where I _highley_ recommend the program
'sweep'. No offense to the
authors of audacity, but I just find it to be a very clunky program to use.
Sweep is very very similar to the program 'soundforge' on win32. It has
recently been jackified thanks to Torbin Hohn (thanks Torbin!). You have to
download his patches to sweep which you can find on the linux-audio-dev
mailing list. Anyway, here is the link to sweep:
Sweep has a great interface, but it still has one significant
downside: all the audio is loaded into memory. This prevents
the effective editing of large soundfiles or sessions unless you
have a ton of memory (or it will swap all over you). For smaller
files, like a single stereo song, it works great.
jlc