Free wav files software for linux

FLAC is a lossless compression method for audio files. Using it, one is able to reduce the filesize and keep the same audio quality as a regular WAV file (CD quality).

The FLAC format is open source, and can be read without any problem by such applications as Amarok or Kaffeine.

Wav and Flac conversion contains two service menus: one to convert WAV files into FLAC, and one to convert FLAC files into WAV.

You will need the FLAC application to be installed on your system to use these service menus.

WavTools is a set of WAV file processing programs for Unix.

The tools included are are:

wavcat - Concatenates WAV files, with options to convert stereo to mono.
wavpad - Adds padding to 16 bit 44 kHz WAV files, as required by some CD writing software.
wavinfo - Displays information from the header and chunks of a WAV file.

Edit the Makefile to choose build options and installation
directories.

Type "make" to build the library, programs, and documentation. Type "make install" to install the programs and manual pages.

Kwave is a sound editor designed for the KDE Desktop Environment.
It is still under continuous development but each official release should be considered to be stable. This is also the reason why releases come out only every few months: one of the goals of the project is to have a reliable and stable sound editor. Stability has a higher prority than the number of features. (The reason why I started to join this project was that I wanted to have a sound editor that does not crash every few minutes...)
After the big port to KDE2 it has temporarily fallen back to alpha state and some of the features of the old 0.5 version only will come back one by one. However, the program already seems to be useful for many people for most all-day work. Many missing functions and features will be ported in future versions...
Please keep in mind that the step from 0.5 to 0.6 was nearly a complete rewrite of the whole program and its internal architecture! The main focus was on robustness and a clean design, not on the pure amount of features.
Main features:
- KDE3 conform GUI
- 24 Bit Support
- Undo/Redo
- Simple Drag & Drop
- Realtime Pre-Listen for some effects
- Support for multi-track files
- Complete zoom and scroll-capability
- Playback via KDEs aRts or OSS (deprecated)
- Recording via OSS
- Load and edit-capability for large files (can use virtual memory)
- Reading and auto-repair of damaged wav-files
- Supports multiple windows
- Extendable Plugin interface
- a nice splashscreen
Plugins
- Amplify free
- Fadein and out
- Lowpass Filter
- Notch Filter
- Pitch Shift
- Playback
- Recording
- Silence
- Noise
- Sonagram
- Select Range
- Volume
- Import/Export of all file types supported by libaudiofile
- Import of MP3 through libmad and id3lib
- Import/Export of Ogg/Vorbis
- Import/Export of FLAC
Enhancements:
- bugfix: workaround for bug in ALSA, crashed when initializing the dsnoop plugin
- bugfix: error in swap file handling, one sample was destroyed when resizing. Affects cut, delete, crop and many other functions.
- fixed the incorrect usage of the word "loose" (thanks to J.T. Hundley)
- bugfix: went back to old implementation of ThreadsafeX11Guard class in order to fix a deadlock (closes sourceforge bug #1623357)
- documentation update: mention Subversion instead of CVS
- zero plugin: new mode, support for inserting a range filled with silence
- fixed the macro functions "Fade Leadin" and "Fade Leadout", using the new mode of the zero plugin

aifc2wav is an aifc (ima4, sowt or sdx2) to wav translator.

I made this little piece of software, because I wanted to listen to some khoomei music (23 Jul 2005: link appears to be dead), and some of those AIFC files were not handled by sox, nor xmms, nor mplayer. Those files were in AIFC IMA4 format.

How to use it?

Unzip the C file with gunzip.

You will need a C compiler (gcc is fine). Simply compile it (for instance gcc -o aifc2wav aifc2wav-4.c), and you are done.

It handles AIFC IMA4 files, AIFC SOWT files and AIFC SDX2 files, both mono and stereo (not sure for SDX2). The SOWT scheme has not been widely tested, if your file sounds strange, contact me. (Same for SDX2.)

It will produce a WAV file. Why WAV? Because WAV files are handled by almost everyone. If you want raw data, you can skip the 44 bytes long header (something like dd if=INPUT_FILE of=OUTPUT_FILE bs=44 skip=1 under unix). Or use sox, which is a good program.

It is supposed to work on any machine, little/big endian. The only problem that might appear is because of this silly 80 bits extended float used by those silly coders. Who needs that much precision for a frequency? Well, so they did, so they did. I dont know if I handle this correctly or not.

WavSplit splits large WAV files at given time positions. To find out split positions you can use any WAV player or editor with a time display.
After unpacking the tarball type these commands:
make && make install
to start the compilation process and copy the program to /usr/local/bin,
and the man pages to /usr/share/man/man1.
(If you dont have a root account, simply issue "make" and copy the tool
manually to the desired location)
You can alter the destinations by editing the variables BIN and MAN in
the Makefile.
Note for all 64-bit systems: when your `long-type vars are 64 bit, .wav
headers are not read/written correctly (=bug). If you replace every `long
with an `int (or other 32-bit type), everything should be fine.
To run WavSplit, issue the command
wavsplit WAV-FILE mm:ss [mm:ss] [mm:ss]...
Enhancements:
- Fixed a bug that frames should be >=0.0 (not >0.0 as originally)
- Updated the man page to include tracktimes options.
- Added MAN path to the makefile, and copied man pages there

mhWaveEdit is a graphical program for editing, playing and recording sound files. mhWaveEdit project is user-friendly, lightweight, portable and handles large files very well.
The program itself has only simple editing features such as cutnpaste and volume adjustment but it can also use Ladspa effect plugins and the effects provided by the SoX application.
It can also support additional file formats besides wav through libsndfile and mp3/ogg import and export through lame and oggenc/oggdec.
For sound playback and recording, mhWaveEdit supports OSS, ALSA, Jack, SDL, PortAudio and EsounD.
Enhancements:
- Support opening files via dragndrop
- Reordering effects in effects browser
- Rate conversion crash fixed
- aRts driver bug fixed
- Minor bug fixes

Mp3CatgBuilder is a script that can be used to create Web pages for audio files like MP3 and WAV. The Web pages taht you will create include ID3 tags, pictures, lyrics, and playlists.
Main features:
- Multiples parameters to build your own mp3page.
- All in CSS.
- Winamp PlayList for directory.
- ID3 popup (if you use http://getid3.sourceforge.net).
- Integration of cover pictures, cd etc ...
- Possible use on Flat and Recursive Table.
- Integration of lyrics and guitar tab.
- Buildin files statistics.