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*** NOTICE: Ecawave is no longer actively developed ***

The Linux audio application scene has changed drastically since January of 2000 when the first version of ecawave was released. Nowadays there are many FOSS (free and open source software) audio file editors available for you to choose from. As replacements to ecawave I recommend:

• Audacity
• Sweep
• Ardour
• ... and many others

*** NOTICE END ***

Ecawave is a simple graphical audio file editor. The user-interface is based on Qt libraries, while almost all audio functionality is taken directly from Ecasound libraries. As ecawave is designed for editing large audio files, all processing is done direct-to-disk. Simple waveform caching is used to speed-up file operations. Ecawave supports all audio file formats and effect algorithms provided by Ecasound libraries. This includes JACK, ALSA, OSS, aRts, over 20 file formats, over 30 effect types, LADSPA plugins and multi-operator effect presets.

Ecawave is free software. It is distributed under terms of the GNU General Public License. See the file 'COPYING' for details. This file is included in all Ecawave distribution packages.

Ecawave / Current release

• ecawave-0.6.1.tar.gz
• status: stable, active development stopped
• dependencies: Ecasound 2.2.0 or newer; Qt 2.2 or newer
• CVS: tag 'v0_6_1' (see below for instructions)

Platform specific source and binary packages

• Redhat, Suse, Mandrake, PLD and other rpm-based distros
  • download the ecawave-x.y.z.tar.gz file
  • build the rpms by issuing "rpm -ta ecawave-x.y.z.tar.gz"
• Debian
  • packages.debian.org search - all ecawave packages in Debian

Anonymous CVS-access (CVS 1.9+ is required)

• server: :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.seul.org:/home/cvspsrv/cvsroot (password guest)
• module: sound/ecawave
• an example of getting the latest version (HEAD-branch) to local 'ecawave-cvs' directory
  • cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.seul.org:/home/cvspsrv/cvsroot login
  • cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.seul.org:/home/cvspsrv/cvsroot co -d ecawave-cvs sound/ecawave
• web access: cvs.seul.org

Older versions

• ecasound.seul.org/download - primary download site
• ecawave.sf.net/download - mirror site

Ecasound

• www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/download.html - ecasound download page

Qt packages

• http://www.troll.no/dl/qtfree-dl.html - Troll Tech, Qt free edition download page
• ftp://ftp.troll.no/qt/source/ - tarred and gzipped

To run ecawave, you need...:

• POSIX compliant UNIX system; tested with various combinations of Linux 2.2.x/2.4.x and glibc 2.1.x/2.2.x, FreeBSD 4.x
• standard C++ runtime environment; tested with libstdc++ 2.9/2.10, 3.x and 4.x
• POSIX threads; tested with linuxthreads 0.7 (libpthread, comes with glibc)
• qt 2.x/3.x runtime libraries

Optional packages:

See the full list at Ecasound Requirements page.

To compile ecawave, you also need...:

• standard C++ build environment; tested with gcc 2.91.66, 2.95.3, 3.0.x, 3.1.x and 3.2 (STL and exceptions need to be supported)
• GNU make, automake, autoconf and libtool packages
• binutils-2.9.1.0.15 or newer (exceptions won't work with older ones)
• qt 2.x/3.x development environment
• Ecasound development files

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