GoldWave displays and accepts several different time formats. The time
is separated into hours (H), minutes (M), seconds (S), and fractions of
a second, like thousandths (T). Two digits are given for hours, minutes,
and seconds. Zero or more digits are given for the fractional part.
The basic format looks like this: HH:MM:SS.TTTTT. When using this
format, minutes and seconds must be numbers from 0 to 59. Only five digits
can be given after the decimal point. Other supported formats are given
in the following table.
| Format |
Description |
| HH:MM:SS.TTTTT |
Hours, minutes, seconds, and fractions of a second.
MM and SS must be between 0 to 59, inclusive. A decimal must
be used to separate fractions of
a second from seconds. Colons must be used to separate hours,
minutes, and seconds. All values are
optional. A time can be entered as HH:: to specify hours
only, or MM: to specify minutes only.
|
| MMMMM:SS.TTTTT |
Minutes, seconds, and fractions of a second.
SS must be between 0 to 59, inclusive. Minutes can be larger than 59.
|
| SSSSS.TTTTT |
Seconds, and fractions of a second.
Seconds can be larger than 59.
|
| HH:MM:SS.XX/YY |
Hours, minutes, seconds, and frames.
This is the same as the first format, but instead of providing
fractions of a second as a decimal, frames are used. The numerator,
XX, specifies the frame number and the denominator, YY, specifies the
frame rate, such as 30 for a 30fps animation, or 75 for CD frames.
If HH, MM, and SS are not given, then XX may be greater than YY
to specify any frame. Otherwise XX must be smaller than YY.
Refer to the examples below.
|
| XXXXXXXXsmp |
Specifies time as a number of samples. This number is divided by the sound's sampling rate to
calculate the actual time. This notation is supported only in New
and Insert Silence.
|
| Example |
Meaning |
| 5 |
Five seconds |
| 3:00 |
Three minutes |
| 9: |
Nine minutes |
| 2:: |
Two hours |
| 7.1/2 |
Seven and a half seconds |
| 5123/60 |
Frame number five thousand one hundred twenty-three
in a sixty frames per second file
|
| 34:25.15/75 |
The fifteenth CD aligned frame beyond
thirty-four minutes and twenty-five seconds.
|
| 1::.3/4 |
One hour and three-quarters of a second. |
| 12:34:56.789 |
Twelve hours, thirty-four minutes, fifty-six seconds,
and seven hundred eighty-nine thousandths of a second.
|
| .67 |
Sixty-seven hundredths of a second.
|
| 24000smp |
24000 samples, which is half a second of audio at a sampling rate of 48000Hz.
|