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- Table of Contents
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- 1.0 GoldWave Features
- 2.0 Installation, Uninstall
- 3.0 Important Additional Notes
- 4.0 Shareware, Copyright & Distribution, Warranty
- 5.0 Contacting the Developer
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- 1.0 GoldWave Features
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- GoldWave is a sound editor, player, recorder, and converter
- for Windows. You can use it to make sounds for website,
- answering machine messages, or record audio from a microphone,
- turntable, cassette deck, or Internet streams. It includes
- several audio restoration filters for remastering audio.
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- Features:
- * Multiple resizable sound windows with time axis, amplitude
- axis, and "Overview" box.
- * Independent left/right channel editing and viewing
- * Detailed zoom to magnify to a sub-sample level for
- accurate editing
- * Vertical (amplitude) zooming
- * Direct editing with the mouse
- * Fast non-destructive editing functions: undo, cut, copy,
- paste, trim, mix, delete
- * Multiple levels of undo
- * Intelligent editing that automatically converts
- sampling rates, bits, and channels when copying and
- pasting to different file formats
- * Configurable temporary storage: hard drive or RAM
- * Tool bars for editing, zooming, opening files, and effects
- * Status bar with configurable time and range displays
- * Standard effects: echo, volume, reverse, envelope shaping,
- panning, filters, resample, transpose, doppler,
- dynamics, noise reduction, flange, parametric EQ,
- time warp, and more
- * Ability to save preset paramaters and shapes for effects
- * Independent and resizable Controls window with
- realtime visuals, LED meters, and controls
- * Play, pause, stop, rewind, fast forward, record,
- volume, balance, and speed controls
- * Realtime playback during rewind and fast forward
- * Realtime waveform, spectrum, 3D bar, spectrogram,
- analog meter, and more visuals
- * Flexibility to choose playback/recording devices
- * User configurable play control
- * Configurable recording options: loop, countdown timer,
- level activated, monitor
- * Support for WAV, OGG, VOC, IFF, AIF, AFC, AU, SND, MP3,
- MAT, DWD, SMP, VOX, SDS, AVI, MOV, as well as the ability
- to open RAW files as 8-bit, 12-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit,
- mu-Law, A-Law, ISDN A-Law, IEEE floating point,
- ASCII text, Dialogic ADPCM
- * Cue points tool with the ability to automatically split
- large files into smaller CD compatible tracks
- * CD Reader tool to digitally read audio from a CD
- * Effect Chain Editor tool to chain effect together
- * Expression evaluator for any type of sound generation
- and manipulation
- * Complete help on all commands
- * Shareware, with no features disabled!
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- 2.0 Installation, Uninstall
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- 2.1) Installation
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- Download the self-install program from the website, then
- run it to begin installation.
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- 2.2) Uninstall
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- Use the Windows "Add/Remove Programs" feature under Control
- Panel to remove GoldWave.
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- To manually uninstall, delete the entire GoldWave folder.
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- 3.0 Important Additional Notes
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- 3.1) Windows 98SE or later is required to run this version.
- Do not install on Windows 95 or Windows NT.
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- 3.2) Video display must be configured for 16-bit colour.
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- 3.3) For MPEG Layer 3 support (mp3) you must have the Windows
- Media modules installed. Installing the new version of
- Media Player will add these modules to your system. To save
- MP3 files, either BladeEnc.dll or Lame_Enc.dll needs to be
- installed in the GoldWave folder.
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- 3.4) Updates for GoldWave can be downloaded from the GoldWave
- website:
- http://www.goldwave.com
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- 3.5) This program uses open source software. GoldWave Inc.
- would like to thank and acknowledge the following:
- * zlib library
- Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
- http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/
- * Ogg Vorbis library
- Copyright (c) 2003, Xiphophorus
- http://www.xiph.org
- * LAME module
- Many contributors
- http://lame.sourceforge.net/
- * FLAC library
- Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Josh Coalson
- http://flac.sourceforge.net/
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- 4.0 Shareware, Copyright & Distribution, Warranty
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- 4.1 Shareware
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- GoldWave is a shareware program. To register and encourage
- further development, please follow the ordering directions in
- the help or on the website.
-
- 4.2 Copyright & Distribution
- ----------------------------
- GoldWave ("the package") includes the following software
- and documentation:
- GoldWave.exe GoldWave application file
- GoldWave.hlp GoldWave help
- GoldWave.htm GoldWave manual
- GWPreset.reg Presets, settings, and shapes
- ReadMe.txt Important notes/information
- WhatsNew.txt A revision change history
- DirectX.pig DirectX Audio plug-in wrapper
- FLACFile.pig FLAC file plug-in
- OggFile.pig Ogg Vorbis file plug-in
- WMAFile.pig Windows Media Audio file plug-in
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- The package is copyright (c) 2003 by GoldWave Inc.
- You are prohibited from:
- charging a fee or requesting donations for the package;
- renting the package;
- defeating shareware limits or using unauthorized licenses;
- distributing/including the package in commercial products;
- sharing licenses;
- modifying or reverse engineering the package.
-
- GoldWave is a trademark of GoldWave Inc.
- All other trademarks/registered names acknowledged.
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- 4.2.1 Distribution of "Beta" or "Release Candidate" Versions
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- Packages designated as 'beta' or 'release candidates' may NOT
- still be redistributed under any conditions. Such packages
- are considered under development and are not suitable for
- general use. Only "Release" versions may be redistributed.
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- 4.2.2 Distribution of Release Versions
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- You may copy and distribute the package through web and ftp
- sites. Only the unmodified self-installing file may be
- distributed or copied.
-
- The package may be distributed on CD-ROMs in the case where
- download sites issue CD-ROMs of their collections.
- The package may be distributed on cover and companion CD-ROMs
- associated with magazines and books.
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- 4.3 Warranty
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- The package is provided as is, without warranty of any kind.
- GoldWave Inc. shall not be liable for damages of any kind.
- Use of this software indicates you agree to this.
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- 5.0 Contacting the Developer
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- Website: http://www.goldwave.com
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- Please refer to GoldWave Help for further information.
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