Years ago, I found a wave editor called WAVEPAD.... not to be confused with wavelab.

Wavepad is a free audio editor by NCH. Once the free trial expires you can elect to either buy the full version or continue to use it in a dialed back limited mode.

It easily does conversion from wave to mp3, removes the ending and start silence, it can insert silence at the start and it can normalize and do a number of other functions that I don't need, and all that from the limited mode.

It's not big and fancy, (maybe the full version is...IDK) but it does what I need.


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