GoldWave is a commercial digital audio editing software product developed by GoldWave Inc, first released to the public in April 1993.

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Features

GoldWave has an array of features bundled which define the program. They include:

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Supported versions and compatibility

Windows

A version prior to the version 5 series still exists for download of its shareware version at the official website. Versions up to 3.03 are 16-bit applications and cannot run in 64-bit versions of Windows). All versions up to 4.26 can run on any 32-bit Windows operating system. Starting with version 5, the minimum supported operating system is changed to Windows ME. However, the requirements listed in the software package's HTML documentation was not updated. Starting with version 5.03, minimum hardware requirements were increased to Pentium III of 700 (500 in FAQ )MHz and DirectX 8 are now part of the minimum system requirements compared to the Pentium II of 300 MHz and DirectX 5 required by previous versions. Windows ME are supported up to 5.25. Windows 98 works, but not officially supported. The 5.09 announcement claimed Windows 98 does not work starting in 2005-01-29 (previously claimed unsupported as late as 2 days earlier ), but the feature was restored in 5.10. Beginning with 5.51, Windows 98 and ME are not supported. Beginning with 6.00, minimum supported operating system is Windows 7 64-bit.

Linux

Prior to GoldWave Infinity, GoldWave version 5 was supported via a Wine compatibility layer.

Android

Original test version was announced in 2019-07-30. The last release of GoldWave was 1.0.36, which is also the first production version, then it was replaced by GoldWave Infinity.

iOS

Original test version was announced in 2019-10-09. The last version announced in publisher's web site was 1.0.39, which is also the first production version. The last released version was 1.0.40, then it was replaced by GoldWave Infinity.

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