As far as open source audio editors go, they are few and far between. So much so that there really is only one of them to consider:
Audacity.
It’s been stable and functional for some time now, to the tune of 2 or 3 years. Its important to note that there is further beta development at version 1.3.6 which I have not looked at yet. For now I’ll concentrate on the stable release.
It’s cross platform, (mac ,*nix, and pc), it looks good in windows, and it works very very well. It does everything a sound editor could want. You save to any codec supported by your OS, you can fade, edit, resample, upsample, downsample, and it even supports multitracking, although it’s no substititue for Acid. It supports most formats, but notably not AAC or WMA. Considering that these are both proprietary, platform dependant and DRM’ed formats this is probably a good thing. No good can come of DRM, but that is another story - see my DRM musing here. It does support the important ones: MP3, MPEG, and OGG (and WAV of course).
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