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*V5.23 File | Open and Batch Processing conversion loses all tags except the small set specifically supported by the program, corresponding (undocumentedly) to the GW-specific names listed on File | Properties, being: Title, Artist, Album, Album artist, Copyright, Genre, Date, YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS, URL, Track number, ISRC, Description. Note: specifically this excludes '''discnumber'''.
*V5.23 File | Open and Batch Processing conversion loses all tags except the small set specifically supported by the program, corresponding (undocumentedly) to the GW-specific names listed on File | Properties, being: Title, Artist, Album, Album artist, Copyright, Genre, Date, YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS, URL, Track number, ISRC, Description. Note: specifically this excludes '''discnumber'''.
**Author says there is no intention to fix this.
**Author says there is no intention to fix this.
*V5.25 File | Open and Batch Processing of FLAC files that are corrupt and hence fail teh internal checksum test give no warning to the user - Goldwave silently loads what even audio is can find, e.g. truncated.
**Author says code was been added specifically to ignore corruption errors, so to avoid users blaming GoldWave for errors not reported by programs such as Microsoft WMP and Apple Quicktime.

Revision as of 2010-01-28T16:10:52

GoldWave (http://www.goldwave.com) is an audio editor program useful for many operations on music files. It has a powerful batch processing feature to perform the same list of operations on a set of files automatically, e.g. remove start and end silence and add two seconds of end silence.

Issues

  • V5.23 File | Open and Batch Processing conversion loses all tags except the small set specifically supported by the program, corresponding (undocumentedly) to the GW-specific names listed on File | Properties, being: Title, Artist, Album, Album artist, Copyright, Genre, Date, YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS, URL, Track number, ISRC, Description. Note: specifically this excludes discnumber.
    • Author says there is no intention to fix this.
  • V5.25 File | Open and Batch Processing of FLAC files that are corrupt and hence fail teh internal checksum test give no warning to the user - Goldwave silently loads what even audio is can find, e.g. truncated.
    • Author says code was been added specifically to ignore corruption errors, so to avoid users blaming GoldWave for errors not reported by programs such as Microsoft WMP and Apple Quicktime.