Awave Audio v7.6

Features

Awave Audio is a dedicated audio file format batch converter.

• Do conversions from about 60 audio file formats that it can read into any of the 30 or so audio file formats that it writes.

• A three-step procedure makes converting large numbers of audio files both fast and simple.

• Handle very large files without using up your memory. *

• Handle audiophile-quality audio formats and 24-bit 192KHz multi-channel audio. Internal sample precision is 32-bit floating point. For improved sound quality, noise dithering is used when decreasing sample bit-depths (e.g., when going from 24- to 16-bit). ^[*]

• You can do optional effects processing using up to four DirectShow effect filters (aka DirectX plug-ins, also used by many other professional audio software), as well as built-in functions such as resampling and silence removal.

• Bonus feature: The Audio Recording Wizard easily lets you make new recordings.

• Bonus feature: Read audio CD tracks (requirements: MMC2-compatible CD/DVD-ROM + ASPI32 drivers). *

Awave Audio support is reachable at [e-mail].

File Formats

Awave Audio can read (R) and write (W) many formats.

Ext	R/W	Type
AIFC	R	Compressed audio interchange file format
AIFF	R+W	Audio interchange file format
ALAW	R+W	Raw CCITT/ITU G.711 A-law format audio
AU	RW	Sun/NeXT/DEC audio file
AVI	R	MS audio video interleave file
AVR	R	Audio Visual Research sound file
CDA	R	Audio CD track
CDR	R	Raw audio-CD data
DIG	R	Digilink format
DIG	R	Sound Designer I audio file
DSS	R	Olympus DSS file %
DWD	R+W	DiamondWare digitized file
ESPS	R	ESPS audio files
F32	R+W	Raw 32-bit IEEE floating point values
F64	R+W	Raw 64-bit IEEE floating point values
G721	R+W	Raw CCITT/ITU G.721 4-bit ADPCM format data
G723	R+W	Raw CCITT/ITU G.723 3- or 5-bit ADPCM format data
G726	R+W	Raw CCITT/ITU G.726 2-, 3-, 4-, or 5-bit ADPCM format data
GSM	R+W	Raw GSM 6.10 audio stream
GSM	R+W	Raw “byte aligned” GSM 6.10 audio stream
GSM	R+W	US Robotics voice modems GSM w.o. header/VoiceGuide/RapidComm
GSM	R+W	US Robotics voice modems GSM w. header/ QuickLink

IFF	R+W	Interchange file format
INRS	R	INRS-Telecommunications audio
MAT	R+W	Matlab variables binary file
MOV	R	Apple QuickTime audio
MP1	R	MPEG audio stream, layer I
MP2	R+W ¤	MPEG audio stream, layer II ¤
MP3	R+W *	MPEG audio stream, layer III *
MPA	R	MPEG audio stream, layer I, II or III
MPEG	R	MPEG 1 system stream
MPG	R	MPEG 1 system stream
NIST	R	NIST Sphere audio
NVF	R+W	Creative nomand voice file
OGG	R+W	Vorbis Ogg file
PAF	R+W	Ensoniq PARIS audio file
PSION	R	PSION a-law audio
RA	W #	RealAudio audio file #
RAW	R+W	Raw signed PCM data
RIF	R+W	Rapidcom Voice/Quicklink Rockwell ADPCM files
SAM	R	Signed 8-bit sample data
SB	R+W	Raw signed byte (8-bit) data
SD	R+W	Sound Designer I audio
SD2	R+W	Sound Designer II flattened file
SD2	R+W	Sound Designer II data fork
SDW	R+W	Raw signed DWord (32-bit) data
SF	R	IRCAM SoundFile format
SFR	R	Sonic Foundry sample resource
SMP	R	Samplevision format
SND	R	Raw unsigned PCM data
SNDR	R	Sounder sound file
SNDT	R	Sndtool sound file
SPD	R	Speech data file
SPPACK	R+W	SPPack sound sample
SVX	R	Interchange file format, 8SVX/16SV
SW	R+W	Raw signed word (16-bit) data
TXT	R+W	ASCII text formatted audio data
TXT	W	ASCII text parameter description
UB	R+W	Raw unsigned byte (8-bit) data
UDW	R+W	Raw unsigned DWord (32-bit) data
ULAW	R+W	Raw CCITT/ITU G.711 mu-law format data
UW	R+W	Raw unsigned word (16-bit) data
V8	R	Covox 8-bit audio
VAG	R+W	Sony PlayStation/PS2 compressed sound files
VAP	R+W	Annotated speech file
VOC	R+W	Creative Labs sound file (older format)
VOC	R+W	Creative Labs sound file (newer format)
VOX	R+W	Dialogic adpcm
WAV	R+W	MS Windows PCM wave
WAV	R+W	“Extensible format” Microsoft waveform file
WMA	R+W =	Windows media audio (require wmaudsdk.dll) =

* MP3 encoding requires a free third-party DLL (Lame_enc.dll or

BladeEnc.dll).

¤ MP2 encoding requires a free third-party DLL (TooLame.dll).

= WMA encoding and decoding requires free external DLL

(wmaudsdk.dll).

# RA encoding requires free external DLLs from RealNetworks.

% DSS reading requires that the Olympus DSS Player v3.x is installed.

^[*]* These are features that are not available with “big brother” Awave Studio, which does do a great many things (e.g., handling synthesizer instruments, collections, midi, editing, etc.) that Awave Audio won’t do.