Audacity is quite nice--'beginner' is not a real problem if one is sensible and reads and thinks. You need to have some idea of exactly what you want to do before choosing the program to do it. There are LOTS of audio programs...some free.

Audacity,JetAudio, dbPowerAmp, Silent Bob, and more....do you want to play music files, record?, edit?....if you want to do everything, you will no doubt want more than one program. It just takes some time to learn the procedures, like creating & editing graphics...(which Donuel has down pat! *grin*...if he gets good at music programming, we'll be taking lessons!)