I’m working on a dialog project. Someone sent me a bunch of mono 128mbps mp3 files, and a few of them, Wavelab cannot open. They open perfectly fine in WMP. Any idea why Wavelab can’t open them? I get no error or anything. I double click the file, and Wavelab does nothing, but no error appears. If I click on the file once, wavelab does not even display a waveform for it… yet wmp plays all of these files fine.
I’m unable to work at all on this project right now… Going to try working in Cubase to see if it will open them. More soon.
Yeah, I think it’s a bug. Some of the files open fine… and they’re mono mp3 files as well… There are only “some” of them that won’t open (like the one I posted)… and yet they all open perfectly fine in Wavelab 10.
Interesting. I even tried renaming the file to something simple and stripping the metadata but no luck. PG will have to analyze the issue and fix it in a future maintenance update.
No one especially. Simply WaveLab was searching for audio data and if there was too much non-audio data before, WaveLab considered this as an error. This worked in WaveLab 10. The regression was introduced in WaveLab 11, when support for surround mp3 was added.
Pardon the bad news, yet WL 11.0.30 (build 114) fails to open a simple 44k 192 kbit stereo mp3 while 112 kbit (which i use a lot) is never a problem as well as 128 kbit, regardless any tags.
Well, it turned out not to have been a mp3 file … MediaInfo 20.03 showed that this was in fact a layer2 MPEG with .mp3 extension. I have corrected the conversion profile in VLC 3.0.16 accordingly and WL11 opens it now. So, thanks for asking that question.
However, WL11 (and WL10, too) was the only software that refused to process that file.