However, 3 stars off for their disingenuous business model (see my ending remark below), incorrect website info, and employees wasting my time and their own, thereby harming their company's bottom line. Would have given 4-5 stars for NCH offering a free basic program. After 7 days of inquiries to get a comparison list of features Masters vs Standard, and utterly obtuse non-responses, I can only conclude that this company uses robots across its sales and support department(s). They offer 2 versions: Masters, Standard. Slow but served my needs, so I wanted to buy. I downloaded trial WavePad for some basic MP3 work. at the least you could be repeatedly billed for such features. Don't know what might happen to the free edition if you use the in-app purchase of additional features. If you read NCH's Trustpilot posts, they link to their free bare-bones edition (for noncommercial use) which does not expire, unlike the trial version which fully expires (inability to save your edit in original format) within 14 days.

If you choose not to purchase the WavePad Master's Edition license upgrade at the end of the free trial period, the advanced features will be disabled but the standard WavePad features will continue to work.' This is inaccurate. The *free* version of WavePad has the additional features of WavePad Master's Edition enabled for a 14-day free *trial*.

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