Gnome Wave Cleaner (GWC) is a
digital audio editor application. The
graphical user interface
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for the editor has been produced employing
GTK+ for the
GUI widget
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s. Its primary author is Jeff Welty.
Gnome Wave Cleaner is
free and open-source software subject to the terms of the
GPL-2.0-or-later.
Features
Gnome Wave Cleaner's primary purpose is to clean up poor quality recordings, such as those captured from old 78 rpm phonograph records. It provides tools for removing
noise
Noise is unwanted sound considered unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing. From a physics standpoint, there is no distinction between noise and desired sound, as both are vibrations through a medium, such as air or water. The difference aris ...
by
spectral
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subtraction and for removing
clicks by
least squares autoregressive
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interpolation. It is also capable of automatically marking song boundaries, and developing
TOC records for creating music Compact Discs from the cleaned audio file. As it uses
libsndfile
libsndfile is a widely used C library written by Erik de Castro Lopo for reading and writing audio files. It supports a wide variety of audio file formats and will convert automatically from one to another. It allows the programmer to ignore m ...
for audio I/O, it can read and write most audio file and data formats.
See also
*
Noise reduction
*
List of free software for audio
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Players
Audio analysis
Converters
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List of Linux audio software
The following is an incomplete list of Linux audio software.
Audio players
GStreamer-based
* Amarok is a free music player for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Multiple backends are supported (xine, helix and NMM).
* Banshee is ...
External links
Converting 78 rpm Records to Modern Media on LinuxGnome Wave Cleaner Project Web site
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Audio editing software that uses GTK
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