Ahh, the miracle of Gold Wave found here
If you're gonna spend money on anything, grab Sound Forge Audio studio, it does everything goldwave does, and much much more. I myself use the full-bodied version, lets me use the paragraphic EQ and everything necessary for restroation and cleanup.
Anyways, I've found out some interesting stuff about the Zune. You have two choices to get music onto your Zune. You can buy a monthly pass for $15, which will let you access anything unlimited and allow synchronization to the Zune. You can NOT burn these tracks to a CD though. If you want to do that, you have to buy a block of Microsoft Points (ugh, I know) and purchase the song with the points. I broke it down and the tracks are a bit cheaper through the Points service, they're roughly 85-90 cents a track, and each album is reasonably priced, around the 9.99 for the entire album like over at iTunes.
Also, with one monthly Zune pass, you can access that Zune pass on three seperate computers, instead of being tied down to one single machine. I think though the Zune will only synchronize with one machine, I could be wrong though. You'd think if the thing would go and look for the Zune pass on each of the machines, that it would be able to keep the content on the device, and allow you to sync it up at work AND home, for example. Oh yeah, and if you purchase the tracks with the points, and you lose the song off of the hard drive, you can re-download them, unlike iTunes, where I lost a handful of songs I purchased, and the service wouldn't let me re-download them. I mean, come on, I purchased the rights to the tracks, I should be allowed to re-download those tracks. Apparently, the Zune service (Probably along with a lot of other services out there) allow you to re-download it if it's lost.
So, the service offers a little bit more freedom over iTunes, which IMO is ****ty, for no-redownloading, but the Zune service kinda sucks right now cause it has a lot of these... new... no-name bands I've never heard of. They must be really popular in Seattle... lol. but thier selection is pretty robust. Now they need to start offering movies online.
