[frozenwind]

My basic audio editing needs were always met by Audacity, but in the 2000s I used to use Goldwave for a specific need: ambient sounds that need to be played in a loop in Half-Life. I can't remember how it's done anymore, but you had to set 2 markers (or at least one), usually at the start and at the end of the sound if it's smoothly loopable. These markers are baked in the resulting 8bit .wav file. Goldwave was the only program I knew that did that.