What's New in WAV Joiner

Version 4.0 © 2003-2009 CFB Software
Last Updated 2 Dec 2009

Windows 7 Support

WAV Joiner is supported on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.  The following features depend on which version of Windows you are running on.

Windows 7:

• Aero Shake, Aero Peek and Aero Snap (for resizable windows)

Windows Vista and Windows 7:

• New style File Open dialog with search bars
• The new standard Segoe UI 9pt font

and, if your computer system has sufficient capabilities:

• Taskbar thumbnail previews
• Windows Flip thumbnail previews and Flip3D previews
• Translucent Aero Glass window borders

Windows XP:

The standard Tahoma 8pt font is used.

Preferences

Show Special Folder names

A number of Special Folders with names such as Documents, Music etc. (My Documents, My Music on some versions of Windows) are pre-installed on Windows systems. These names are abbreviations for username-specific folders. When one of these Special Folders is selected in the WAV Folder or Target Folder box on the WAV Joiner Options > Preferences > Folders screen the Special Folder name is displayed instead of the full name.

Uncheck this option if you want to see the full names of the Special Folders wherever they appear on WAV Joiner screens. 

NOTE: The full folder names (e.g. c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\My Music) are shown in a tooltip when you hover the mouse over a Special Folder name on the Preferences > Folders screen and the Preview Files track selection combo box.

Menus and Toolbars

Three different visual menu styles can be chosen to match your version of Windows and other Microsoft applications.

• XP Style
• Flat Style
• Office Style

Look for Options in the WAV Joiner Help Index to find examples of the appearance of each style. The default style used is Flat.

The toolbars on the main WAV Joiner screen can optionally be displayed with large icons for better visibility.

Miscellaneous

Directories are now referred to as Folders throughout. Folder names can only be entered via a dialog box to help ensure that a valid, existing, folder is chosen and to support the display of Special Folder names.

The default folder for a new installation when creating WAV files is the user's My Music or Music folder depending on which version of Windows you are using.  A new folder can be created by clicking on the Make New Folder button when browsing folders in which to save the WAV file.

The Trial version is clearly identified on the title bar.

If Xitel's INport is connected and identified by Windows it is not included in the Playback device list. The INport can only be used as a Recording device so this prevents it from being selected for playback by mistake.

Unlimited number of files

Join a virtually unlimited number of files in one session - the number is no longer restricted to 63. The only constraint is that the size of the combined file must be less than 2GB - approximately 3 hours and 20 minutes of CD-quality stereo recording.

Additional supported formats

Join 8-bit WAV files, as well as 16-bit WAV files, in both Mono and Stereo formats and a range of sampling rates. WAV files created using Windows Media Player 11, Broadcast Wave files from digital recorders etc. are also supported.

Selected files

• Select a subset of files by ticking the checkboxes next to the filenames. The displayed start time and end time columns, and the Total Size status display are automatically updated to include only the selected files. Only the selected files are joined and saved.
• Quickly select all files or no files from the popup menu.
• Use the option Preferences > Options > Selected Files to control whether every file or no files should be selected, by default, when they are first opened.

Copy to clipboard

Copy the contents of the display (filenames, sizes and times separated by Tabs) to the standard Windows Clipboard to be used in other applications.