Gnome Wave Cleaner (GWC) is a digital audio editor application. The

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for the editor has been produced employing

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for the

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s. Its primary author is Jeff Welty. Gnome Wave Cleaner is

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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

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subtraction and for removing clicks by

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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

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for audio I/O, it can read and write most audio file and data formats.

External links

Converting 78 rpm Records to Modern Media on Linux

Gnome Wave Cleaner Project Web site
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Features

See also

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