[Nobody]

Chris and company,
I hope you're gonna test out the new AmadeusPro 1.0 from HairerSoft, which just came out this weekend. AmadeusPro does everything Fission does, plus everything else that I mentioned earlier in this thread that an audio editor should do. Besides that, it's rewritten as a Cocoa app with an interface that beats the pants off Fission. I'm not a license-holder (yet), but I'm testing AmadeusPro now. Since MacUpdate has a one-day "sale" on AmadeusPro today for $25 (it's usually $40), I may go for it if it works as expected. Certainly, it's a huge bargain compared with the overrated Fission. This product simply reinforces the questions I raised earlier about Fission's pricing... If HairerSoft can release a full-featured editor like AmadeusPro for $40, why does RogueAmoeba think they need $30 for a tool that does only one-tenth as much for end users?
I can't believe you pushed to get this listed as an Editors Choice award, with all the truly excellent Mac software released in 2007. Are you sure you don't have friends at RogueAmoeba that you're trying to thank? You're certainly not doing Macworld's readers any favors.
Leland

[Chris Breen]

Jeez, Leland, haven't you gotten this bee out of your bonnet yet? I like Amadeus Pro a lot -- I've recommended Amadeus II for just about ever and I upgraded to Pro during the beta. Its existence doesn't make Fission any less attractive for what I use it for -- slicing and dicing tracks. Much as I love Amadeus in all its forms, Fission makes the job easier.
But then who am I to argue with the guy who considers AudioSlicer a viable alternative to Fission?

[Nobody]

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Jeez, Leland, haven't you gotten this bee out of your bonnet yet?

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The bee came back into my bonnet when I picked up the latest issue of Macworld and saw that you had included Fission as one of the best software products of 2007. Incredible. I wonder how many Mac users you've misled with such recommendations?

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I like Amadeus Pro a lot -- I've recommended Amadeus II for just about ever and I upgraded to Pro during the beta. Its existence doesn't make Fission any less attractive for what I use it for -- slicing and dicing tracks. Much as I love Amadeus in all its forms, Fission makes the job easier.

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How can you say that? Have you tried AmadeusPro's automatic track marking tool? It marks individual tracks in a long audio segment every bit as well as Fission does. The command is in Selection/Generate Markers... Like Fission, it gets you only so far, and then you have to manually adjust the split markers yourself. The point is, you don't have to leave AmadeusPro in order to do this work, and then you're still working in an actual audio editor if your audio requires further cleanup. I don't see how saving the file and opening it in Fission to do something you could do just as well in AmadeusPro "makes the job easier."

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But then who am I to argue with the guy who considers AudioSlicer a viable alternative to Fission?

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I made clear that it's only a viable alternative to Fission if you're working with mp3 files. My main point was that it's FREE, which might be an important consideration for a lot of Mac users. Further, my point is that Fission is unnecessary, which suggests that AudioSlicer is, too, if you already have a good audio editor.
Recommending that readers spend $30 for Fission while still needing to pay $30 or $40 for Amadeus is bad advice. Heck, at that point, you could recommend they buy Sound Studio for $80, which lets you automatically start and stop your recording based on the db level of the sound. No need to split the audio afterward, because Sound Studio does it for you.
But what do I know? You're the expert, and I'm just an idiot reader who was trying to make a point you may have missed.

[Jason Snell]

I'm going to jump here and just say that clearly, we are all going to have to agree to disagree.
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