Just a follow up guys, per this comment by dklein:
I just tried a 24 bit file and it was readable by cool edit pro. When you go to save the file, CDWave shows a checkbox for use alternate 24 bit format. fwiw, I tried it both ways and CEP opened both of them.
I tried both ways too after playing with WaveLab. However, if you don't check that box, FLAC won't be able to encode the resulting files. This is what I got for an error message:
options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 12 -e -q 0 -r 0,6
sci2003-07-24-mk4v-set2t08.wav: WARNING: found non-standard 'fmt ' sub-chunk whi ch has length = 40
sci2003-07-24-mk4v-set2t08.wav: ERROR: unsupported compression type 65534
When I *did* check the box to use an alternate format, FLAC had no problems with it. Interesting.
Hopefully CD Wave builds in some support for adding ID tags to FLAC files kinda like Frontend's "Tag Conf". If it had that support, I'd use it every time.
-Brad