Goldwave for Linux?

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loninappleton
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Goldwave for Linux?

Post by loninappleton »

I'm wondering what the potential is for being
able to use Goldwave in Linux? Would it all of a
sudden become open source?

I know of no equivalent program in the
Linux world.
hans-jürgen
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Re: Goldwave for Linux?

Post by hans-jürgen »

loninappleton wrote:I know of no equivalent program in the
Linux world.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen
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Re: Goldwave for Linux?

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hans-jürgen wrote:
loninappleton wrote:I know of no equivalent program in the
Linux world.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

I've heard the name of this but not in the context of Linux. Thanks.
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Re: Goldwave for Linux?

Post by GoldWave Inc. »

Audacity works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Although there were plans to create a Linux version of GoldWave, those had to be put on hold when Borland lost its mind and crippled RAD support in its latest C++ software (GoldWave uses Borland's VCL). Mono and .Net offer some hope for a cross-platform version in the future.

Chris
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Post by loninappleton »

Keep hope alive.


I have only experimented with Linux so far.

I checked out Audacity. GW seems to be more
feature-rich.
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Post by hans-jürgen »

loninappleton wrote:I checked out Audacity. GW seems to be more
feature-rich.
There is a Wiki for Audacity user support where you could place feature requests etc.:

http://audacityteam.org/
ZZee ya, Hans-Jürgen
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Post by DewDude420 »

Goldwave 4.26 works in WINE under Linux. 5.x installs but since there's lack of DirectX, it won't run. I was able to play a file back in 4.26, but recording is untested. Next time i boot up DSL (Damn Small Linux) i'll download and find out.
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Post by greenlead »

I hate to awaken a dead thread, but I have been doing a LOT with Linux lately. The JACK audio connection kit makes a lot of really cool things possible.

If a Goldwave binary were made for Linux, I would be very, very happy! Goldwave has a lot of extra features that take it a notch about Audacity (BTW: I LOVE audacity, too).

Those interested in audio and linux should check out the AGNULA and CCRMA distributions. :idea:
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Post by loninappleton »

I am not familiar with those.

My latest attempt at Linux with Simply Mempis
to just get my comm working has been a nightmare.


I made one install of Fedora Core 2 that was
easier.
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Post by greenlead »

Try the AGNULA live CD. It isn't officially supported anymore, but it has a lot of really cool features.

Also, try dyne:bolic, another live CD. This one doesn't have as much audio software, but it has video software as well. Both of them will give you a chance to play with the JACK interface.

BTW, the CCRMA project is run by Stanford U. It is a complete DAW, built on top of Red Hat Linux (and the Fedora project).
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Post by alexsergeyev »

Wine emulation sucks, sound slow, things work weird sometimes, etc.
It will be really good to see real GoldWave under XWindows.
BTW - there are others programs, for example - wavesurfer, but, as also as audacity it looks really ugly and not solid as GoldWave.

There is one interesting feature though:

In main window you can see sound file represented by waves as in GW but also optionally can switch on spectrogram picture (of whole file, not just as in GW visualization) It helps a lot when requires to edit speech sounds. You can detect single words more neatly than in wave representation. Is it possible to look for similar features in GW (windows, don't care here about lin version, even that I have Windows only for GW needs :)...) in future?
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Post by loninappleton »

Chris said that there was some problem with converting GW to Linux.


I'd be interested in hearing more about Wine
and how it works with Linux.


I have my head too full of that stuff at the moment, but eventually I want to get access to a few progs like GW from a basic Linux install of
Fedora Core or Simply Mepis.
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Post by alexsergeyev »

Just read more about wine on http://www.winehq.org/ if you want to use this.
Fedora RPM are available from http://www.winehq.org/site/download-rh
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Post by loninappleton »

alexsergeyev wrote:Just read more about wine on http://www.winehq.org/ if you want to use this.
Fedora RPM are available from http://www.winehq.org/site/download-rh

I have downloaded some of the things for that but not very close to doing things like installing Goldwave. On dialup the repository downloads
took quite while.'

For this I'm more concerned about backup on a new installation of
one of the Linux varieties called simply Mepis.


Does anyone one here have experience with WINE? The one thing I know for sure is that it runs on Intel architecture only. Plus I think you have to install your Windows system disk on a partition.




This is not an extraordinarily big job by itself. You run your install disk onto a drive,
load a Live CD with the Mepis Linux on it and use it;s graphically-oriented partitioning tool to resize. Then run the Linux install routione on what's left.

A full install of Windows may not be necessary, but I do know that the system disk is required for setting up WINE.



Then comes the study of how to get all the WINE thingies going.
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Post by jengelh »

Converting it to Linux would ultimatively require to get rid of MFC (or similar Win32 kits) and instead use "native crossplatform" gui set; it's not a big deal.
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