Carmen Borgia wrote:
I see. What I'm looking for is something to open the .mp3 as an .mp3
without conversion to .wav first, and then the ability to edit the
audio of the .mp3. I'm wondering if it's possible to avoid "double
encoding" to .mp3.

mp3DirectCut will do this.




I would guess I'd want to edit any tags and such as well.

There are lots of tag editors out there, whatever OS you prefer.