Download GoldWave 5.60 Beta

GoldWave is a sound editing program for Windows, which has been on the market for almost 18 years. An extensive overview of all possibilities, including screenshots is on this page to find. A license costs $20 for a year or $50 for a lifetime. A new beta release was released a few days ago with version number 5.60. To be able to use it, a key must be entered which can be found at the bottom this page can be found. Below is an overview of the major changes made in this beta.

New Features

• Playback/Recording
  This version of GoldWave contains significant changes to the playback and recording code. By default, the new Windows Vista/7 Core Audio/WASAPIA has been used. Previous versions of GoldWave used DirectX (DirectSound) for all audio input and output. However DirectX has been the source of many problems and has been deprecated on Windows Vista/7 where it no longer provides direct access to the audio hardware. DirectSound support is still included as an option in GoldWave and is used by default for Windows 2000/XP.
• Media Foundation
  This version of GoldWave uses the new Media Foundation in Windows 7 to access system decoders to handle a wider range of audio and video files. Previous versions of GoldWave used DirectShow to access system decoders. That functionality has not been removed but it is used only if Media Foundation is unable to open a file or on older versions of Windows that do no have Media Foundation.
• iTunes M4A
  GoldWave can now open and save iTunes M4A files through Media Foundation on Windows 7. Currently there appears to be a flaw in the way Media Foundation handles cover art metadata. Although cover art can be read from a file, any attempt to write cover art results in all metadata being wiped from the file. To avoid this problem, GoldWave only writes text metadata. Cover art cannot be saved in an M4A file for now.
• Cover Art
  Cover art is shown under File | Information. Click on the image to replace the artwork with another image.
• Open URL
  A new File | Open URL command has been added to open a file directly from a website using Media Foundation on Window 7.
• Window Layering
  In previous versions of GoldWave, windows and dialogs could appear on top of other applications. Changes have been made to avoid that. However further testing is needed to ensure that windows and dialogs appear correctly on top of GoldWave’s Main window and not behind it, which would make the program appear frozen.
• VST
  The first beta version of the VST plug-in is included. However, there appear to be numerous stability issues with VST plug-ins. Many plugins violate the VST specification in a variety of ways and the specification itself has issues.

To install the beta version, you must enter a beta key. It can be found here.