ajustabill

It might be easier, but something in me balks at spending more money on this (I'd need Switch Plus to do batch and/or command line conversions). And unless I know what broke WavePad, I don't have a good feeling that something won't break Switch as well. And for the same reason, I'm not going to install Switch on even the remote possibility that something else might break. Again, it's the principle. I bought software: it worked, then it didn't. It bothers me when that happens. I'm here looking for help in fixing the problem, or at least knowing why it occurred.

I read it here - http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/support.html "Do [sic] to the volume of emails we receive we can only provide limited email support for those who have not purchased a support plan." and also when I tried to file a support request on the web site. After I filled in all the info it informed me I was no longer eligible for support Thanks for the suggestion, but I ran flacdec.exe from there and the symptoms are still the same. If I feel more ambitious, I might uninstall and then manually clean out any leftover wavepad entries from the registry before reinstalling and see if that helps.

Yes, there are alternative means of conversion from flac to other formats. I am now using one of those. The existence of alternatives doesn't change the fact that for several people at least, WavePad doesn't do what it is advertised to do. My problem is I have a program that I paid for (WavePad) not behaving as it should (and used to), and I can't get any support from NCH without paying them more money. I understand that sometimes programs can "break" (especially under Windows), but the lack of any error messages and the failure of a reinstall to fix the problem are additionally frustrating. I also understand that NCH can't offer support indefinitely, which is why I asked my question here. I did not purchase WavePad to do conversions. I still use it for its primary intended purpose. But the batch conversion feature of WavePad is one of the easiest and most effective I've used, and I don't see why you suggest I purchase another program when the one I've already paid for should work.

Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I have a registered WavePad Master's 3.02 that used to work. Suddenly it has stopped loading .flac files. No errors are reported. I can't load the flac sample file, nor any other flac file. I can use WavePad to create a flac file that can be opened and played by other programs, but it won't open in WavePad. I uninstalled and reinstalled the program without any change in the behavior. Are there known conflicts with any other programs?