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I was approached by one of my colleagues today for whom is having difficulty on how to edit and export his music (from .wav to .mp3) on his laptop.

He wanted to have this done using a freeware and of all the softwares he stumbled, it is all pay per use.

Well, I recommend a software called Audacity.

Audacity is a tiny music editor that works very well (even if it is running on a laptop) and the trick about getting your .wav file to export to .mp3 format is that you need to patch the software with a file (dll) called lame_enc.dll which is available for free at dll-files.com.

It is a cross-platform software which means it works on Microsoft Windows, Mac OsX and Linux operating systems.

There is a lot of features that Audacity has to offer like :-

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
• And more!

But if you are into serious sound editing, softwares like Sony’s Soundforge for example is a great and value for money software.

Being a former musician and songwriter, I’ve always understand that to do music recording you will need a desktop (it is my fundamental opinion, of course)

But to be on the go, one alternative is the Mac Book …… but they cost a blimey .

I was thinking back on doing a home based recording but a Windows based laptop ( well that’s some challenge).

I was surfing the internet and I could say the “Musician Friend” is indeed a musician’s friend (get what I mean) .

MusicXPC laptops are designed for musicians on the go ….. like me.

It’s hard to say at $999, i think it’s a steal.

The fun part is this … it is a Windows XP based sytem and it is tweak specifically for the music production.

Whether you’re using Cubase, Sonar, Reason, Protools, Cakewalk or others …. you will feel it is lightning speed.

Lets look more on the spec and you will definately know what I mean …..

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