I have some specific mp3 files that do not load with Wavelab 12.
Interestingly, SpectraLayers 12 does load it. Cubase 15 comes up with an error (unsupported file format). Windows 11 and other music applications do play the mp3 just fine.
Wavelab does not load it at all - no error message.
I found the ffmpeg.exe within the Wavelab Program directory (Windows 11) and checked it with a command line to convert it to a wav. Which works fine.
Does anyone have an idea? e.g. how to configure Wavelab to use frauenhofer instead of ffmpeg?
Wavelab is used in a batch process to loudness normalize tracks before they go to the local restaurant/bar oriented streaming service. It is essential that the processing runs fine for all tracks.
I can recommend the tool MediaInfo to get more information about the actual encoding and other technical stuff of a media file. I too had a few cases in the past, where the file container (or better said the file extension) suggested a different kind of format than it actually was.
If you know the actual encoding of your file, a simple renaming of the file extension will likely be sufficient to make it compatible with all applications, especially as ffmpeg and some other applications already decoded your file correctly.