Z-Yogi

I ripped a bunch of my CDs so I could put a lot of them on one CD and play them in my truck. Originally I ripped them in WMA, as my old truck had a stereo that could read and play WMA. The CD player in my new truck can't read WMA, but does read MP3. So I converted all my WMA song files into MP3 using 'Switch'. Since then, ALL my operations have been 'From' MP3 'To' MP3. No conversions, no other types. MP3. I made a 'Sampler' CD with songs from many different albums, and noticed the sound levels didn't match, forcing me to adjust the volume between songs. So I decided to 'fix' the sound levels so they all matched and a friend recommended 'Wavepad'. Initially I used the 'normalize' function in the "Batch" mode. The first set worked great. I had about 20 songs in the batch list and did the batch. On the 2nd batch of songs, it crashed as described after doing some of the songs. Then it started happening more and more often. No real pattern to it, but most often after at least 4-5 songs had worked normally. After babysitting the program normalizing all my albums (dealing with the crash 'feature' about every 10th song), I realized the 'normalize' hadn't done a good job matching up recording levels, since it simply amplified it until any single 'beat' of the song was at maximum level. So I started loading albums up one at a time and amplified the songs myself. I also noticed on some albums (like Pink Floyd's "The Wall") that the mp3 'cut' locations between songs was sometimes not 'right' so I was fixing those. During this operation, the crashes happened less often, but still occasionally, when I tried to save the files. The crash ALWAYS happens the very moment it finishes saving an MP3 file I've made some change to. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but I don't think it worked as the reinstall seemed to happen almost instantly, so I don't think my uninstall really happened. There is no 'uninstall' option so I just tried to delete the wavepad folder. Any help is appreciated because as of right now, my 'trial' version has expired and I can't use it. If I can get this bug fixed, I'm ready to buy the real version. Thank you for any help!

I'm using the 'free' version of WavePad Master Edition 3.05. I installed it months ago, used it once, and lately am using it a lot. I'd go ahead and buy it if I thought that would solve my issue, but I'm not convinced it would. I've re-written this post, because upon further review, and using Wavepad in more different ways, I've found that my program crashes no matter WHAT I am doing! The only common denominator is that it ALWAYS happens when I am saving the file I've just modified. 90% of the crashes happen like so: Little window says 'Saving File...', 'Please Wait...', and the green progress bar will be at 100%. Then I get that 'error beep' (whatever you call that sound when Windows opens up an error window), and a "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library" window opens up with the big red X. It says "Runtime Error!". Gives my program name "Program /blah/blah/wavepad.exe" and the error message "abnormal Program Termination". When I hit "OK", the whole works disappears. About 10% of the time it gives me an error message saying the program terminated abnormally and I should contact tech support. Is this happening to anyone else out there?