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

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