In terms of features, one thing that would be useful is the capability to have two windows display their contents at exactly the same scale--for example, so 10 seconds of content is the same size in one window as in another window. (Rogue Amoeba told me that the company will consider adding this feature in a future version.) A minor annoyance is that when you edit a file that contains album art (for example, that you've added using iTunes), the edited file shows a Fission icon, rather than the album art, in the Finder. The developer says this bug will be fixed soon.

If you're an audio pro--I'm admittedly not--you've certainly got programs that do much more than Fission. But for the rest of us, Fission is likely the only app you need to work with audio files, and it does the job easily and quickly.

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