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Wavpack pluging for cool edit doesn't work

I am installing the Cool Edit/Audition plugin in my Cool Edit Pro 2.  When I try to save a file in Wavpack format, all I get is white noise in the output file (I am reading back the file in WaveLab with the appropriate plugin).  I have tried different Wavpack plugin settings, but nothing seems to work.

I have not tried to read a Wavpack file into Cool Edit Pro 2 using the plugin.

I am trying to to use Cool Edit to convert all my audio files that have been encoded using Monkey’s Audio into WavePack format.

I would appreciate any help I can get in this.

Does anyone have a good way to convert Monkey's Audio files into WavPack without going through the .wav format?

Thanks in advance.

Wavpack pluging for cool edit doesn't work

Reply #1 –
Quote from: Steve J. on
I am installing the Cool Edit/Audition plugin in my Cool Edit Pro 2.  When I try to save a file in Wavpack format, all I get is white noise in the output file (I am reading back the file in WaveLab with the appropriate plugin).  I have tried different Wavpack plugin settings, but nothing seems to work.

I have not tried to read a Wavpack file into Cool Edit Pro 2 using the plugin.

I am trying to to use Cool Edit to convert all my audio files that have been encoded using Monkey’s Audio into WavePack format.

I would appreciate any help I can get in this.

Does anyone have a good way to convert Monkey's Audio files into WavPack without going through the .wav format?

Thanks in advance.


foobar2000

Wavpack pluging for cool edit doesn't work

Reply #2 –
Or, go to dbpoweramp.com and get their converter.  It is excellent.

Wavpack pluging for cool edit doesn't work

Reply #3 –
Quote from: sidewalking on
Or, go to dbpoweramp.com and get their converter.  It is excellent.


I did some more testing, and it get stranger.  There is some sort of an incompatibility between the WavPack plugins for Cool Edit and WaveLab.  Here is the scenario.

·        Read a known audio file in Cool Edit.
·        Save it as a WavPack file. (saves ok)
·        Read the WavPack file back into Cool Edit using the Cool Edit Open in the File Menu (reads fine and plays fine)
·        The same file plays fine using Winamp with the WavPack Plugin.  Winamp is set to associate with .wv files, so when I double click on the file, Winamp plays fine.
·        Read the WavPack file into WaveLab (plays as white noise)
·        However, when I right click on the WavPack file and use the Open As-Specifying Cool Edit, the file that Cool Edit reads is a jumbled mess with white noise at the beginning

·        Read a known audio file into WaveLab
·        Save it as a WavPack file. (saves ok)
·        Read the WavPack file back into WaveLab either with the WaveLab file open or the Right-Click Open With (reads fine and plays fine)
·        The same file plays fine using Winamp with the WavPack Plugin.
·        Read the WavPack file into Cool Edit (WavPack plugin doesn't recognize the file and asks what type it is).  This happens whether I use the Cool Edit file open, or the right-click Open With.

I am missing something here.  Does anyone have any idea what is happening?  I would like to be able to read the same WavPack files in either Cool Edit or WaveLab.

Wavpack pluging for cool edit doesn't work

Reply #4 –
Okay, I know what the problem is: you are using a very old version of the Cool Edit plugin. This is my fault really because I have noticed lately that a surprising number of people seem to be downloading these old versions and I was wondering why (but I thought maybe they were web archivers or something else, and not real people).

However, just a few days ago I did a web search for something WavPack related and saw that old wavpack pages were coming up in the search which made me worried that people might unknowingly download old versions of things because they came to wavpack.com from one of those searches and never got to the [real] home page.

I think as a short term measure I'll simply remove those pages and put up some simple pages indicating that an old page/file is being requested and provide a link to the real website.

Anyway, here's what you should do to get things fixed. Delete the old plugin (cool_wv.flt) and run Cool Edit again and make sure it's really gone. Then download the newest plugin (cool_wv4.flt) here and install it  in the same place (make sure you don't use folder names because the ZIP file has everything in a folder called "audition"):

newest CoolEdit/Audition plugin

Then rerun Cool Edit and everything should work fine. BTW, the problem with your files loading as white noise has to do with the fact that the old format WavPack files that CoolEdit was generating have the same first 4 bytes as WAV files and so WaveLab (and even CoolEdit when you just drop the file in) use a WAV reader for the file (which gives the noise).

Sorry for the mixup, and thanks for providing me the information to figure out what's going on.

edit: removed line I didn't mean to copy from e-mail

Wavpack pluging for cool edit doesn't work

Reply #5 –
But it works fine in Adobe Audition 2.0