Not only can you use Audio Studio Gold to grab music from a CD, but also record audios. Stop there, and burn your improved, converted audio files to disc. Or use the advanced audio editor to create your own music that you can transfer to CDs.

Features: Audio Studio Gold will let you rip audio from CDs. But that is just a small part of the functionalities available. You can record audio in one of many available formats. These include uncompressed WAV(PCM), compressed Wav or ADPCM, A law, micro law, DSP, GSM etc.; MP3 and MP2, Ogg, WMA, CDFA, AVI, AIFF, AU, G721, G 723 and G 726, VOX (Dialogic ADPCM), RAW and MPC. Etc., It will digitize a sound recording to the hard disk, in a way that is suitable for recording it on an audio CD; you can also record audio data from a microphone or other available input device. Also use the advanced audio editor to create your own music and songs that you can transfer to CDs. Audio waveform display is used, that makes it very convenient to use the cut-paste kind of editing to the recording.

You can pick specific areas to apply effects. To decide the exact point at which you need to add the effect, you can zoom the waveform too. There is a set of filters that can be applied to the audio to improve its noise performance. There are a set of effects also that can be applied. The studio is actually a set of six applications that include besides the recorder and the editor; a format converter, an audio CD burner, a MP3 CD burner and an audio grabber. The format converter helps conversion of files in one audio format to another very quickly. Audio CD Burner integrates all of the burning technology into one workstation. It’s the only authoring program that gives you fast and efficient access to Disc-Audio production. Audio MP3 CD Burner digitizes MP3 to your hard drive, in a way that is suitable to burn it on an audio CD.

Overall: Quite a handy audio tool, good to have around.