Working with sounds
If you want to use audio on your site, it's best to use short clips. So you'll need some editing software to pick out the bits you want. You might also need to clean it up and compress it.
Popular sound editors
For Windows
Cooledit (Available free)
http://www.syntrillium.com/download/
Acid Wave
http://www.polyhedric.com/software/index.html
Internet Audio Mix (free trial)
http://www.acoustica.com/download.htm
Pro tools
http://www.digidesign.com/ptfree/
Sound Forge (free trial)
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/SoundForge/
For Macintosh
SoundEdit
http://www.macromedia.com/software/sound/
Apple's list of audio processing software
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/
More sound editing software
Windows
http://www.tucows.com/audioedit95_default.html
Macintosh
http://mac.tucows.com/audiomac_default.html
