Keep the useful part of a recording and leave the rest behind. Add an audio file, listen to it, then move the start and end handles around the passage you want to save. The trimmed result is a new file, so retain the full recording if you may need another section later.
Drop an audio file to trim
or click to browse — MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, OGG
Choose an audio file and use the player to locate the passage you intend to keep.
Move the start and end handles, checking the displayed duration and replaying around each boundary.
Run the trim, then check the new file on the download page and in its intended player.
A lecture may open with room noise, while an interview may contain a long pause before the answer you need. Play the original once and note the beginning and ending of that passage. The two handles mark a continuous range; this tool does not join several separate moments into one clip.
Listen just before the intended starting point. A consonant or breath can begin earlier than the most obvious waveform peak. At the other end, leave enough room for the final word or musical decay. Choosing boundaries by ear is more useful than trimming solely to a target duration.
After a file loads, the player lets you hear the source. The start and end sliders show their positions and the length between them. Moving the start handle also moves playback to that point, which helps you locate an opening. The displayed time is a guide, not a promise that every encoded audio frame will land at precisely that fraction of a second.
The selected range must have a positive length. If the recording is shorter than you expected, confirm its loaded duration before moving the handles. A file that your browser cannot recognize as audio may not enter the editor at all.
Trimming removes material outside the chosen interval. It does not remove hiss within the kept section, balance different speakers or repair a clipped microphone. If background sound overlaps the words you need, moving the handles cannot separate them. Choose the best available source before making a delivery copy.
The result follows the source's format label in this workflow. That does not mean every input will produce an identical encoded stream: processing creates a new output. Listen to the downloaded file, especially at its first and last seconds, before attaching it to a presentation or sending it to someone else.
A short answer from a long interview is easier for a reviewer to locate when it begins near the speaker's first word. A voice memo can be shortened to the instruction that matters, without asking a colleague to scrub through minutes of silence. For music practice, you might isolate one continuous phrase to replay; keep the full track separately.
A clip can also serve as a reference for an editor who will make a more involved piece elsewhere. Give it a clear filename after download, because several trims from the same source can otherwise be hard to distinguish. Do not treat an excerpt as a substitute for the complete recording when surrounding context matters.
After trimming, the result is sent to the download page. Open or download it and compare the first and last words with your intended selection. Check that the file plays in the destination app, and inspect its duration there rather than relying only on the editor's estimate.
If the opening feels abrupt, return to the original and move the start slightly earlier. If the ending trails into the next speaker, shorten the end. Repeatedly trimming an already trimmed copy makes it harder to recover context; revise from the untouched recording instead.
No. The controls select one continuous interval between a start and an end. Making a montage from distant sections requires an audio editor or merger after separate clips are prepared.
No. It removes audio outside your chosen time range. Noise that overlaps the wanted speech or music remains in the clip.
A slider position can cut into the beginning of a word or note. Playback of the saved result tells you whether the opening needs a little more space.
The workflow creates a result file; keep the original separately. Check your downloaded filename before replacing anything in your own storage.
This page is for choosing a time range, not a format-selection workflow. Its result uses the source format label; use an approved audio conversion page if a different destination format is required.
Play across each boundary and leave a little space before the first sound and after the last one. The displayed time helps navigation, but listening to the exported clip is the decisive check.
A file can still be incompatible with a particular player or service after trimming. Test the downloaded result there and check that the source format is accepted.