Fission is an efficient audio editing tool designed for Mac. This feature-rich utility enables you to crop, trim, and join audio files with minimum effort, without losing any of their quality in the process.
The application comes with a straightforward interface, works with a wide variety of audio formats, and gives you access to waveform display mode. What's more, it lets you add Fade-In and Fade-Out effects to your audio files, edit metadata info if necessary, insert silence segments in the imported sound files, and much more.
In addition, you can use this application for creating ringtones for your mobile phone. The program preserves the quality of the input files and takes minimum time to export the ringtones you need.
This new version comes with many useful bug fixes and improvements. For example, you can now export segments from the imported audio files; this feature comes in handy if you need to extract a certain portion of the input file. Furthermore, the MP3 encoding is much faster.
To cut a long story short, Fission proves to be a smart addition to your collection of Mac apps. It's feature-rich, simple to use, preserves the quality of the input audio files, and is cheap.
v2.3 [Feb 13, 2016]
- MP3 Chapters: Fission now supports saving chapter marks in MP3 files, as well as editing existing chapterized MP3s. MP3 chapters are handy for podcasters in particular.
- Faster MP3 Encoding: MP3 encoding has been sped up, and is now 3x faster.
- Damage Visualization: When Fission loads a damaged file, it will now visually display bad packets in the waveform.
- The display of bitrates for AIFF and WAV files has been improved.
- This update fixes a bug where partial M4A files, created when a recording issue occurred in Audio Hijack, failed to load.
- An issue where certain lesser-used types of AAC files would not load properly has been corrected.
- An audible glitch that could occasionally be heard at the end of playback of some audio files has been corrected.
- A rare bug where Fission might crash with certain types of AIFF or WAV files has been fixed.
- The software update mechanism (powered by Sparkle) now runs securely over HTTPS.
- Other minor fixes and improvements have been made.
