cs> I don't know about editing wav files with linux. Seems there are
  cs> mp3 editors though. You might want to think about editing files in
  cs> mp3 format then using something like SoX to convert the mp3 file
  cs> to wav format for writing audio tracks to cd. ...

Thanks, but that's the exact opposite of what I need to
do.

My client/friend has a new double-CD album already
listed in Amazon and other distribution services. Since
he's semi-retired, this is an independent production,
not something being distributed by a big record label,
so he has to do this gruntwork himself. Or hire it out,
which is where I come in. Since I'm doing his Web site
and will be putting the same samples there that appear
on Amazon et al, it fell into my hands to do this job.

Amazon et al require MP3 samples. I have a copy of the
newly minted recordings and have ripped all the tracks
to WAV files. I need to select several segments from
them, lopping off the beginning and/or end as necessary
in the case of those samples that come from the middle
of tracks, fade in or out as appropriate, and save the
resulting WAV file. From there converting them to MP3
is a no-brainer.

But thanks for the thought.

As it turns out he'll probably take it to his recording
engineer to do it next week. But I'm frustrated that in
this case, because I'm using Linux, I seem to be
limited in what I am able to do. That shouldn't happen.

-- 
Lynn David Newton
Phoenix, AZ