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thanks jerry i think the problem may be/have been with my system - i do tend to run a few things at the same time - impatient to get stuff done! - and this may overload my ole PC. i downloaded a radio stream no problem this afternoon and will go about editing it in the next couple of days. i'll come back if there is a problem. many thanks for you comments. What is a "direct-to-MP3 recorder"? Thanks again Adam

Usually I stick with .wav but sometimes I use .mp3 if I am not far off burning the file to CD. Whatever the settings are, they are the default settings that come with WavePad. I am about to record a music broadcast of about 55 minutes, then I will have to "slice and dice" it into tracks, so I will see how that goes and report back! Regards Adam

Jerry Seems to happen when handling really big files, 50 MB plus, and when processing the whole file in some way - particularly saving after doing some editing work. May be a fault of my system, which is getting a bit sluggish (Windows XP with SP2, 1.88 GHz processor, 223 RAM). I am trying to troubleshoot my system and keep the file size down. Keeping a backup is a great idea, I have always though of that but am not too big on discipline! I used to be able to handle 50 MB plus files OK but maybe I will just try to cut back on the size. Regards Adam

Sometimes WavePad freezes on me. This is commonly when handling a large file, or when I cancel an operation such as "save". Then I have to go to the Alt Ctrl Del routine, and WavePad closes so I can get it going again. So far, no great deal. The problem is that, when this happens, I lose the orginal of file that I was working on at the time of the freeze. As you can imagine this is a MAJOR pain. I have not found this with any othetr software. Do I have to keep back-up copies of every file in case I lose it if I have a WavePad freeze? Or, what I am not doing? What should I be doing? Any comments, suggestions? Regardsa to all Adam

You could also consider the following: Audacity can help you combine a number of tracks, it has a number of features thaat might appeal to you, and it is free - you could check it out: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/features Also Kristal is quite an advanced sound mixer, with a number of available channels, is also free, you could check that out too: http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/ There are a number of free utilities that will burn to CD for you, the basic model of winamp (I think), Windows will now burn cds for you if you have a recent version of XP. I don't think that you would have a problem finding a free cd burner. But WavePad should do all that for you. No need to go further!

Jerry Excuse my blushes, never thought of that (!) and managed ot find the required data so all is OK now. Gawd I must look a fool! Thanks so much! Regards Adam

Hi I had an email inviting me, having purchased in the last three months, to have free upgrade to v. 2.01. I did this and on startup, WavePad tells me my trial verion wil run out in a few days. Any advice/comments? Thanks in advance adam