Now that CD-writing is a popular pastime for many PC users, decent audio editing software is a must for those looking to do more with their music files.

Power Audio Editor is a small yet powerful application that can be used to edit and save audio files to MP3, WAV and WMA formats.

Tools are included for mixing, cutting and pasting, while effects such as flange, delay and reverse can be employed for the production heads out there.

The following audio formats are supported:

• Uncompressed WAV PCM
• MP3 (MPEG Layer-3), MP2 (MPEG Layer-2)
• VOX (Dialogic ADPCM)
• Windows Media Audio
• RAW (PCM, A-LAW, U-LAW)
• CDA (Audio CD Tracks)
• OGG (Ogg Vorbis)