Thread:BunsenH/@comment-28858167-20170114200136/@comment-24577221-20170114212331

I'm fond of the Audacity tool (free, open source) for working with sound, but it may be beyond your needs. I have been using it to scan my old cassette tapes and vinyl records into digital format. It also has a wide variety of functions to modify sound, including pitch changes and distortions. And it does sound format conversions.

It's pretty useful for editing sound, including helping me get rid of the worst of the noise in the old media. Some of my records are second-hand (or third-, or n), but even the albums I bought new have accumulated a few ticks and pops over the years. With Audacity, I can zoom in and delete the milliseconds of the sound file that correspond to the noise. The tool also does multi-track stuff, useful for making complex recordings.