[Flac] FLAC: editing software

Greg M. contrabassboy at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 23 09:51:40 PDT 2007


I just tried this with Goldwave.. it decoded the file,
i edited out some stuff, and saved the file (flac
format) and the tags appear to be intact.

Greg M.

--- Tomas Valusek <tvalusek at seznam.cz> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> and what if I want to preserve FLAC tags while I'm
> editing its contents? 
> Is there a way e.g. to cut silent block from FLAC
> and preserve tags? By 
> uncompressing to WAV, I lose all tag info.
> 
> Tomas Valusek
> 
> Greg M. napsal(a):
> > Hairy,
> >
> > I've used Goldwave (goldwave.com) (trialware) for
> > awhile now for editing WAVs. It will take care of
> > de-compressing from FLAC, but I don't know what
> > happens when you save back as a FLAC, I haven't
> tried
> > that.
> >
> > If you are really wanting to edit the FLAC file, I
> > don't think it makes sense to do this without
> > converting to WAV. It's like editing a ZIP file of
> > Microsoft Word documents without decompressing to
> Word
> > format.
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> > --- Harry Sack <tranzedude at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> yes I know I can do that, but my question is if
> >> there is software to edit
> >> FLAC files without having to uncompress to
> >> WAV/recompress to FLAC.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2007/7/23, Avuton Olrich <avuton at gmail.com>:
> >>     
> >>> On 7/23/07, Harry Sack <tranzedude at gmail.com>
> >>>       
> >> wrote:
> >>     
> >>>> hi
> >>>>
> >>>> does somebody know software for editing FLAC
> >>>>         
> >> files? So I just want to
> >>     
> >>> cut
> >>>       
> >>>> some pieces out of the file (for example
> silence
> >>>>         
> >> in front of a
> >>     
> >>> recording)
> >>>
> >>> Uncompress the file, run wavbreaker on it, use
> >>>       
> >> wavmerge as necessary,
> >>     
> >>> recompress.
> >>> --
> >>> avuton
> >>> --
> >>> Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot.
> --
> >>>       
> >> Rusty Russell.
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