meotch

thank you also gooroo as your response was extremely helpful and right on target. i do NOT have the original source in .wav so indeed if you are permitted, i'd love to know about the mp3 editor of which you speak. thanks! -Meotch

Thank you Michael - indeed this was helpful as I will now just leave these as .wavs. cheers! -Meotch

Hi Michael - I swear that I made double sure to download the free version - I am fairly certain I did so from the link in the FAQ that says "click here for free version", yet today when I tried to open WP for the first time in a few weeks, I am told "The trial version has expired. You must purchase to continue to use it. Purchasing is easy and can be done immediately online". I went back to the FAQ to verify the name of the downloaded .exe (I still have the one I originally downloaded) and they are both the same name - wpsetup.exe. Should I uninstall what I have now and reinstall a newly re-downloaded wpsetup.exe? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Meotch

so i opened a 192kbps .mp3, made a couple of minor edits (just chopped out some bits - no effects, normalization, etc to actual sound) and then went to "save as" and realized that wavepad opened it up to edit it as a .wav. so i assume there is already some loss of quality due to the program approximating the missing pieces of the .mp3 in order to render a .wav - i guess that is the way it goes, so no big deal there. but my question is now that i have this .wav, should i not just leave it as a .wav rather than re-compressing to an .mp3 (at any bit rate)? i.e., i'm already one step away from the original b/c wavpad edits as .wav, and i don't want to take another step away by taking that .wav and transcoding it to another format. by any crazy chance if i save it again at a 192 .mp3 would i be taking a step BACK to the original quality? storage space is a total non-issue to me but sound quality is very important. (and yes i realize that a 192 .mp3 is a poor start, but i'm trying to preserve as much quality as i can and not loose more thru this editing and resaving process and i can't get a hold of a higher quality original) thank you kindly for any guidance anyone can provide