Audio Editors

GWC – Gnome Wave Cleaner

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

The graphical user interface for the editor uses GTK+ for the GUI widgets.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Clean up poor quality recordings, such as those captured from old 78 rpm phonograph records.
  • Provides tools for removing noise by spectral subtraction and for removing clicks by least squares autoregressive interpolation.
  • Automatically marking song boundaries, and developing TOC records for creating music Compact Discs from the cleaned audio file.
  • As it uses libsndfile for audio I/O, it can read and write most audio file and data formats

Website: gwc.sourceforge.net
Support:
Developer: Jeff Welty
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

GWC
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