I need a program that will let me snip out pieces of songs, and other audio files, and save it as a seperate file. As many supported formats as possible.
Rip_UK, GoldWave does about the same as SoundForge and the bottom line is $45 v $299. I use both, but GoldWave most of the time because it's easier to use. That's why it's outstanding value.
And to add up again, Goldwave is really simple to use and if you are familiar with like.. Word.. you'll probably pick it up easily because most of it's icons and such are very similar. You can hover over them and they'll tell you what it does and such.
Also, it has supports for files that if needed in the future for a new codec, it'll probably have a plug in where you can download to support such files.