<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Harry,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Any time you are looking at a waveform in an editor - e.g. to see the silent parts so you can cut them out - you are looking at uncompressed data. A FLAC editor would need to uncompress the data, allow you to edit it, and then recompress the data. So you probably won't see too many people support direct FLAC editing, although they might support FLAC import and FLAC export.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ableton Live allows you to work with FLAC files. However, they are automatically converted to uncompressed files on disk. This is just a convenience, so you don't have to do it manually. I don't think you can save to FLAC, but I haven't really looked.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Brian Willoughby</DIV><DIV>Sound Consulting</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 23, 2007, at 08:16, Harry Sack wrote:</DIV>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.<BR><BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">2007/7/23, Avuton Olrich <<A href="mailto:avuton@gmail.com"> avuton@gmail.com</A>>:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 7/23/07, Harry Sack <<A href="mailto:tranzedude@gmail.com"> tranzedude@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> hi<BR>><BR>> does somebody know software for editing FLAC files? So I just want to cut<BR>> some pieces out of the file (for example silence in front of a recording)<BR> <BR>Uncompress the file, run wavbreaker on it, use wavmerge as necessary,<BR>recompress.<BR>--<BR>avuton<BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>