nchgb wrote:
Try using Switch and see if this works.
The information provided in the WavePad web page states:
"Supports a number of file formats including wav (multiple codecs), mp3, vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, FLAC (emphasis mine), ogg, and many more."
My purchased version of WavePad (WavePad Master's version 3.05) does NOT open a flac file, nor does it do so if "flacdec" is installed form the NCH Swift Sound components page. Of course, it cannot be expected that installing flacdec would correct the problem, since there is no WavePad prompt to install this particular plug-in when an attempt is made to open a flac file.
Hence it is quite clear that WavePad makes at least one claim in its advertising literature which is not supported by the flac facts, and which has not been supported by these facts for a very long time. In my opinion, the time is long past either to (1) reprogram WavePad in order to make it conform with this advertised claim, or (2) delete this particular claim from the advertising literature.
I find your answer to the poster's question to be incredible! You are suggesting to an individual who is only asking that WavePad live up to its advertised claim is to _purchase another piece of NCH software to do the advertised job? You are an NCH employee who is now a "Professional" poster in this forum, which means only that you have posted here enough times to earn this particular forum degree. Is yours the NCH "official" answer to this poster's question? Or are you a loose cannon here in this forum, just trying to be helpful but acting without official sanction?
I will save the questioner some time and effort. He/she need not try Switch; an excellent program, it does indeed convert flac files--and very well, at that. However, you seem to have missed the point; your answer is IRRELEVANT!
Conclusion
Perhaps the individual who asked this question should re-phrase it as follows:
"Does anyone know of some sound editing software that _does_ load a flac file (i.e., decompress it to a .wav file as usual), and then permit the resulting edited file(s) to be saved in the flac format?" Phrasing the question in this manner might well have elicited a different response from some knowledgeable individual in this forum :-)
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