NCH Software is an Australian

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company founded in 1993 in Canberra, Australia. The

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office was started in April 2008 due to the large U.S. customer base. The firm primarily sells to individuals via its website.

Software products

NCH Software provides

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for audio, video, business, dictation and transcription, graphics, telephony and other utilities. On September 26, 2014, cnet.com showed their most-frequently downloaded program from NCH Software was WavePad Sound Editor Masters Edition. VideoPad is the firm's video editing application for the home and professional market. It is part of a suite that integrates with other software created by the company. This other software includes WavePad, a sound-editing program; MixPad, a sound-mixing program; PhotoPad, a photo and image editor; Prism a video format converter; Express Burn, disc burning software; Switch, an audio format converter, Express Scribe, a transcription software and

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, a screen recorder and video capture software.

Controversy

During 2013, some

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companies categorized NCH software as

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because it bundled the Google Toolbar. In July 2015, NCH Software announced it was no longer bundling the Google toolbar. As of November 30, 2015, NCH Software is marked clean by all major antivirus products. That said, if you install their software, they create context menus for several file types that are not at all related to an installed product. For instance, right-click a tar file on your Windows machine and an option to download and install their file compression program appears. This behavior occurs despite the fact that only a sound processing program was installed on the user machine.

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External links

NCH Software Official Site

NCH Software Audio Site
Software companies of Australia Software companies established in 1993 Privately held companies of Australia Companies based in Canberra Australian companies established in 1993