So I purchased a selection of sound effects. All well and good, except they proudly proclaim the purchased versions are "CD Quality Sound"... huge filesize.

For a downloadable demo, I don't want these enormous filesizes; I'd much rather have low quality sound.

Suggestions on (cheap/free? :) ) editors to drop these down to something smaller? I don't want to go Mp3, I just want a smaller wav.

ogg samples.

pat.

Just get any half decent wave editor. Wavelab is the top choice (and it really rocks), but there are many much cheaper alternatives.

Alternatively, there's always good ol' sndrec32.exe that comes with Windows, it can save files in lower quality formats, I don't think the resample algorithm is very good though.

Or alternatively, read up on DSP and write your own resampler, though I guess that's total overkill for what you want to do =)

There's also Microsoft .WMA format. Any particular reason you want to avoid MP3s?

Apart from the obvious licensing issues - which are easily circumvented by using ogg instead...

There's also Microsoft .WMA format. Any particular reason you want to avoid MP3s?

Here is some information about why you want to avoid mp3.
http://www.dexterity.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=165
And in this thread you can read a few things about wma.
http://www.dexterity.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56

<troll>MP3 decoding is free with Java. Mind you, so's OGG and it's twice the quality
<fx: runs off into distance, cackling in 44.1khz 16bit stereo>

Cas :)

why is mp3 decoding free with java?

SoX can resample and trim sound files. http://sox.sourceforge.net/
(this is a command-line tool)

It's free because Sun have kindly paid for a license to include MP3 technology in Java for you (along with a whole load of other stuff that normally costs you money).

Cas :)