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Musicmaniac: Perhaps you might consider how you wish to use the MP3 format in performance, the time you wish to spend in the conversion process, your level of computer expertise, and then seek a program or two that fits your game plan.

A prevalent misconception of the MP3 file is it is a compressed file much like an sponge. When there's no water, the sponge is very small. When water is added, the sponge is reconstituted into its original size and shape. This is not entirely true with an MP3. The MP3 conversion technique is also surgery. Portions of the original .wav file are deleted...removed...surgically gone forever. A common processing error is downloading a 128kbs MP3, using a program to convert it back to .wav file, then making a 192kbs MP3 from that, thinking that it's now a better sounding file or higher quality file. Wrong. What you have in this scenario is a 128kbs quality file taking the space of a 192kbs file on your hard drive.

The purpose of this example is to alert readers that time and effort in conversion to MP3 format should be approached as a one time project unless the conversion process is repeated from the very beginning.

Taking some extra time and effort in the very beginning will result in huge benefits for the digital DJ down the road, .wav file editing being the least utilized yet most creative aspect available to a Digital DJ.

Any software tool or hunk of physcial gear is a personal choice, a personal preference. "It sucks" or "It rocks" are descriptive phrases, worthless in a professional-like forum unless backed up with the experience and credentials of the user, real time use of the product, followed by the reasoning of why it sucks or it rocks. Nothing precepitates a gear or software flame war faster than unsubstantiated opinion.