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  Table of Contents
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  1.0 GoldWave Features
  2.0 Installation, Uninstall
  3.0 Important Additional Notes
  4.0 Shareware, Copyright & Distribution, Warranty
  5.0 Contacting the Developer
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  1.0 GoldWave Features
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  GoldWave is a sound editor, player, recorder, and converter
  for Windows. You can use it to make sounds for website,
  answering machine messages, or record audio from a microphone,
  turntable, cassette deck, or Internet streams. It includes
  several audio restoration filters for remastering audio.
  Features:
  * Multiple resizable sound windows with time axis, amplitude
  axis, and "Overview" box.
  * Independent left/right channel editing and viewing
  * Detailed zoom to magnify to a sub-sample level for
  accurate editing
  * Vertical (amplitude) zooming
  * Direct editing with the mouse
  * Fast non-destructive editing functions: undo, cut, copy,
  paste, trim, mix, delete
  * Multiple levels of undo
  * Intelligent editing that automatically converts
  sampling rates, bits, and channels when copying and
  pasting to different file formats
  * Configurable temporary storage: hard drive or RAM
  * Tool bars for editing, zooming, opening files, and effects
  * Status bar with configurable time and range displays
  * Standard effects: echo, volume, reverse, envelope shaping,
  panning, filters, resample, transpose, doppler,
  dynamics, noise reduction, flange, parametric EQ,
  time warp, and more
  * Ability to save preset paramaters and shapes for effects
  * Independent and resizable Controls window with
  realtime visuals, LED meters, and controls
  * Play, pause, stop, rewind, fast forward, record,
  volume, balance, and speed controls
  * Realtime playback during rewind and fast forward
  * Realtime waveform, spectrum, 3D bar, spectrogram,
  analog meter, and more visuals
  * Flexibility to choose playback/recording devices
  * User configurable play control
  * Configurable recording options: loop, countdown timer,
  level activated, monitor
  * Support for WAV, OGG, VOC, IFF, AIF, AFC, AU, SND, MP3,
  MAT, DWD, SMP, VOX, SDS, AVI, MOV, as well as the ability
  to open RAW files as 8-bit, 12-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit,
  mu-Law, A-Law, ISDN A-Law, IEEE floating point,
  ASCII text, Dialogic ADPCM
  * Cue points tool with the ability to automatically split
  large files into smaller CD compatible tracks
  * CD Reader tool to digitally read audio from a CD
  * Effect Chain Editor tool to chain effect together
  * Expression evaluator for any type of sound generation
  and manipulation
  * Complete help on all commands
  * Shareware, with no features disabled!
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  2.0 Installation, Uninstall
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  2.1) Installation
  Download the self-install program from the website, then
  run it to begin installation.
  2.2) Uninstall
  Use the Windows "Add/Remove Programs" feature under Control
  Panel to remove GoldWave.
  To manually uninstall, delete the entire GoldWave folder.
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  3.0 Important Additional Notes
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  3.1) Windows 98SE or later is required to run this version.
  Do not install on Windows 95 or Windows NT.
  3.2) Video display must be configured for 16-bit colour.
  3.3) For MPEG Layer 3 support (mp3) you must have the Windows
  Media modules installed. Installing the new version of
  Media Player will add these modules to your system. To save
  MP3 files, either BladeEnc.dll or Lame_Enc.dll needs to be
  installed in the GoldWave folder.
  3.4) Updates for GoldWave can be downloaded from the GoldWave
  website:
  http://www.goldwave.com
  3.5) This program uses open source software. GoldWave Inc.
  would like to thank and acknowledge the following:
  * zlib library
  Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
  http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
  * Ogg Vorbis library
  Copyright (c) 2004, Xiphophorus
  http://www.xiph.org
  * LAME module
  Many contributors
  http://lame.sourceforge.net/
  * FLAC library
  Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Josh Coalson
  http://flac.sourceforge.net/
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  4.0 Shareware, Copyright & Distribution, Warranty
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  4.1 Shareware
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  GoldWave is a shareware program. To register and encourage
  further development, please follow the ordering directions in
  the help or on the website.
  4.2 Copyright & Distribution
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  GoldWave ("the package") includes the following software
  and documentation:
  GoldWave.exe GoldWave application file
  GoldWave.hlp GoldWave help
  GoldWave.htm GoldWave manual
  GWPreset.reg Presets, settings, and shapes
  ReadMe.txt Important notes/information
  WhatsNew.txt A revision change history
  DirectX.pig DirectX Audio plug-in wrapper
  FLACFile.pig FLAC file plug-in
  OggFile.pig Ogg Vorbis file plug-in
  WMAFile.pig Windows Media Audio file plug-in
  The package is copyright (c) 2004 by GoldWave Inc.
  You are prohibited from:
  charging a fee or requesting donations for the package;
  renting the package;
  defeating shareware limits or using unauthorized licenses;
  distributing/including the package in commercial products;
  sharing licenses;
  modifying or reverse engineering the package.
  GoldWave is a trademark of GoldWave Inc.
  All other trademarks/registered names acknowledged.
  4.2.1 Distribution of "Beta" or "Release Candidate" Versions
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  Packages designated as 'beta' or 'release candidates' may NOT
  still be redistributed under any conditions. Such packages
  are considered under development and are not suitable for
  general use. Only "Release" versions may be redistributed.
  4.2.2 Distribution of Release Versions
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  You may copy and distribute the package through web and ftp
  sites. Only the unmodified self-installing file may be
  distributed or copied.
  The package may be distributed on CD-ROMs in the case where
  download sites issue CD-ROMs of their collections.
  The package may be distributed on cover and companion CD-ROMs
  associated with magazines and books.
  4.3 Warranty
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  The package is provided as is, without warranty of any kind.
  GoldWave Inc. shall not be liable for damages of any kind.
  Use of this software indicates you agree to this.
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  5.0 Contacting the Developer
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  Website: http://www.goldwave.com
  Please refer to GoldWave Help for further information.