Whoa. I was wondering if it was "just" the Windows version but they are aiming to open source the new web version with all the Windows tools brought over. I hope they make it!<p>The editor itself:<p><a href="https://goldwave.com/editor" rel="nofollow">https://goldwave.com/editor</a>
This is great. I'll be contributing to this.<p>I've been using Goldwave for 20 years. I do most of my work in FL Studio (writing, producing, and mixing/mastering songs), but when I need to do a quick edit, seamless loop, fade in/out, I always reach for Goldwave. I've tried many sound editors over the years — both free and paid — but I always came back to Goldwave. Yes; it still looks pretty much like it did in 2003, but I don't care because I find the UX and reliability to be unparalleled. I've gotten many years of value uot of my $50. I wish there was more software like this in 2022.<p>I hope they can open source it so it lives for a very long time.
NFTs for software licenses? That might be the first legitimate use case that makes sense to me. It's a shame we're all on the app store model now.
I couldn't find what is the amounts established for each goal. If they are not disclosing that, what's stopping them from just saying "sorry, we didn't make it, but thanks for you non-refundable contribution anyway!"
GOLDWAVE. I remember using it and Cool Edit in the 90s. Well, with Audacity now compromised, we need competition in that open source space (I don't necessarily want a full DAW).
I hope this goes better than the opening of Lightworks. Lightworks got so much free publicity from announcing an open source version it saved their business (my theory at least.)<p>This strikes me more as a retirement plan for the Goldwave devs.
I wonder would this be better as a KickStarter project - contributors get their money back if there is not enough total?<p>2nd thing I wonder is why do they need money to develop the open source-version. If they just published the source as open source wouldn't that be it? Further open-source-developers then could develop it further.
Wonderful! Though I do worry that one-time donations might leave future development underfunded. There's a lot of value in recurring monthly donations, as Patreon (and related schemes) have demonstrated.
Goldwave is really great.
Together with CoolEdit -> Now Adobe Audition and Audacity and also the venerable tools:
Sony Soundforge Pro and Steinberg Wavelab<p>always made sound editing fun and very productive.
GlodWave! As a teenager I spent whole evenings playing with its expression evaluator. I guess now I'm morally obliged to contribute considering I, like many others, pirated it.