GoldWave is probably my favorite audio editor in the universe.  I've been using it since I was just a wee lad, and although I've tried open source alternatives over the years, I just can't get comfortable with them.  So, I decided once and for all, I'll just install GoldWave, a Windows program, on my Linux computer.

First of all, you need to have wine installed; this is the program that lets us run .exe files (Windows executables) in Linux.  To get wine, we go to terminal and type:  sudo apt-get install wine

Now that wine is installed, we just download the GoldWave installer to our Linux computer and run it with a double-click, just as if we were in Windows.

Now, I can guarantee you're going to want MP3 support, so let's install LAME for Windows into our Linux box, so that this Windows application has access to MP3 encoding.  Simply visit:  http://www.free-codecs.com/Lame_Encoder_download.htm and download the LAME encoders.  Open the ZIP file and extract lame_enc.dll to your Goldwave installation folder in wine.  This will probably be found at ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/GoldWave

Now, open GoldWave.

At present, I have not had the time to figure out why MP3 files hang on import.  I will later update this document.  In the meantime, convert your files to WAV first (a tool like Audacity will do just fine).

That's really all there was to it!  You're now running Goldwave on Linux.  Watch Episode 34 to learn more about how the program works.  Hope you enjoy!

Robbie Ferguson, Technologist
Category5 Technology TV
www.Category5.tv

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