Audio Cutter
Open a file, drag the two handles to the part you want, download it. No upload, no account, no watermark — the whole thing happens inside this page.
What it does
Keep the twenty seconds you actually wanted
Cutting audio is the most ordinary editing job there is — a ringtone, a clip for a video, an intro trimmed off a voice memo, eight bars to sample — and it is absurd that the usual route involves uploading a forty-megabyte file to a stranger’s server, waiting, and downloading it back.
This does it where the file already is. Your browser decodes the audio, draws the waveform, and writes out the selection you drag. Nothing is transmitted, so there is no upload wait, no queue, no account, and no question about how long a copy sits on someone else’s disk.
The output is a real audio file, not a preview: WAV if you want it lossless, MP3 at your choice of bitrate if you want it small. There is also a fade control, because a cut made mid-waveform clicks, and fifty milliseconds of fade makes that disappear without being audible as a fade.
How it works
How to cut an audio file
Three actions and a download.
- 01
Open the file
MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, OGG or a video file. It is read straight off your device — no upload step, so it appears immediately.
- 02
Drag the handles to the part you want
The waveform shows you where the sound is. Everything outside the two handles is dimmed, so what you are keeping is obvious.
- 03
Choose a format and download
Preview the cut first. Then take it as a WAV, or as an MP3 at 128 to 320kbps.
What you get
What separates one online audio cutter from another
An MP3 cutter that never uploads the MP3
Every other cutter on the first page of results sends your file to a server first. This one does not — which makes it faster on a big file and the only sensible option for anything you would rather not hand over.
- upload the whole file
- wait for the round trip
- hope it is deleted after
- opens instantly
- no upload at all
- nothing to delete
A waveform you cut against, not a pair of timecodes
You can see where the verse starts. Dragging to a visible edge is faster and more accurate than typing 00:47.3 and checking whether you guessed right.
Fades, so the cut does not click
Slicing through the middle of a waveform leaves a step in the signal, and a step is a click. A few milliseconds of fade at each edge removes it and is far too short to hear as a fade.
Anything your browser can open
MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, AAC, OGG — and video files, whose audio track is pulled out automatically, which is usually why people go looking for a cutter in the first place.
Who uses it
What gets cut
Ringtones and alarms
Thirty seconds of the chorus, exported as a normal audio file your phone will accept.
Clips for short video
Pull the fifteen seconds you are editing against, so you are not scrubbing a full song on a timeline.
Trimming a recording
Cut the silence and the fumbling at the start of a voice memo, interview or lecture recording.
Loops to sample
Take exactly the bars you want, then check the tempo with the BPM finder so the loop lines up in a session.
Audition and competition cuts
A strict sixty seconds, ending where you decide rather than where a fade happens to be.
Splitting a long file
Run it once per section — a live set into tracks, a lecture into chapters — and reassemble later if you need to.
FAQ
Audio cutter questions
No. That is the main difference between this and the cutters that rank above it. The audio is decoded, displayed and cut by your own browser, and the download comes from memory on your machine. There is no copy anywhere to worry about.
A little, because the file is decoded and then written out again. Export as WAV and nothing further is lost — the WAV is exactly what came out of the decoder. Export as MP3 at 256 or 320kbps and the second encoding is inaudible in practice. Only at low bitrates does re-encoding become obvious.
To the sample, in principle. In practice you are dragging with a mouse across a waveform, so you land within a few milliseconds — well inside what anyone can hear. For a musically exact cut, find the tempo first and work out where the bar line falls.
Yes. Drop the video file in and its audio track is decoded like any other input; what you download is audio only. That covers most of the reason people search for a cutter — pulling a piece of sound out of a clip.
Around 100MB, which is a couple of hours of MP3. The limit is your device’s memory rather than a policy — the whole file is held uncompressed while you work on it, so a phone will give up sooner than a laptop.
Because the cut landed in the middle of a wave cycle and the signal jumps. Raise the fade setting to 50 milliseconds and it goes away. It is on by default for exactly this reason; you would only turn it off to cut precisely on a transient.
Not on this page — the audio joiner does that, and it takes several files at once with an optional crossfade. Cutting then joining is the usual two-step for building a mashup or a medley.
Yes. No account, no credits, no watermark, no cap on how many files you cut. Your browser does the work, so there is nothing for us to meter.
Yes, in any current mobile browser, and dragging the handles works with touch. Very large files are the practical limit — phones have much less memory to hold decoded audio in.
The tool does not care where a file came from, but downloading from YouTube breaks its terms unless the video offers it. What you do with your own recordings, purchases and licensed material is your business.
Cut the part you need
Open a file, drag two handles, download. Nothing leaves your device.