Too much ado for… what?

I wanted to open an mp3 file and snip off some portion of it. Simple, right? No. Quicktime should have been able to do it, but it is buggy and you cannot drag the left handle of the trim tool (Apple doesnt care about real computers any more). I then stepped up to microwave. I discovered over 10 minutes that I had to import the file into Microwaves own format, drag across a section to trim, not have any fine control over the edges of the trim region (like drag the edges after forming the region), and then during the export there is no straightforward way to export to the same format as the original - it needs to be re-compressed. Please, cant we have a tool that can simply cut an audio file in two, without messing with the compression format?

icalc about MicroWave - Audio Editor