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I'm going to say what the person from NCH was too nice to say. I can't for the life of me think of anything that MP3pro adds in value to make it worth the extra licensing fees. MP3pro supposedly offers equal quality at smaller file sizes than plain-ol'-MP3. Well, so does AAC. So does WMA. So does OGG. OGG is totally free and is supported by several brands of portable players and many media servers. WMA is not free but it is shoved down our collective throats by the Microsoft goliath, with support on most car head units and every non-Apple portable. AAC isn't free either but is supported by increasing numbers of car head units and media servers, not to mention googaplex-i-gazillions of iPods. So MP3pro not just costs more - it is supported by NOBODY! Considering all this, I have to ask... WHY?? Why on God's green earth SHOULD NCH pay additional licensing fees for MP3Pro? Bill I. Madison, WI USA

I also use v1.42, but I got mine from the NCH website and I quickly broke down and bought the registered version, since a couple of uses of the freebie made it obvious to me I would be using this program a LOT! FLAC to MP3 can be accomplished by either the freebie or the PLUS version. I have used Switch for converting FLAC to MP3 also, but have not encountered your problem. What FLAC encoder did you use for encoding your FLAC files in the first place? Or did you download them from someone else? I use Speek's FLAC Frontend package which I downloaded from FLAC's SourceForge home page. Besides a simple Windows front end for the FLAC encoder, it includes a tagger and a FLAC file checker. The whole package installed occupies a hard drive footprint of less than 1MB! If I were you, I would download and install FLAC FrontEnd for at least the FLAC checker. Then, I would check the integrity of your FLAC files you are trying to convert - just to eliminate them as the source of your problem. If your FLACs check out OK, you might want to uninstall and re-install Switch. To make sure it is totally uninstalled, use Windows Explorer to dig down into the "Program Files" folder and check to make sure that the "NCH Software" and "NCH Switch Sound" folders are gone. If not, DELETE them. There is the possibility that your installation or some of its components are corrupt; you don't want any of that left behind to corrupt your re-installation. Then go to NCH website and download a new copy of Switch from there. Re-install and then see if your problem persists. Good luck, Bill I. Madison, WI USA