PrivateMP3

MP3 cutter

Open an audio file, cut out the parts you do not want, and save what is left.

Remove more than one stretch in a single pass — most online cutters only let you keep one region.

Drop a video or audio file here, or open a file
Nothing is uploaded. The file is read straight off your disk.

Removing more than one part

Most online cutters ask you to pick one region and keep it. That works for a ringtone and for nothing else. If you are cleaning up a recording you usually want the opposite: keep the whole thing but take out the four places where someone coughed, the phone rang, and the meeting drifted.

Select a stretch and press remove, then do it again somewhere else. Each removed stretch appears in the list under the waveform with its exact times, so you can correct one without starting over. What is left is joined in order.

Where the cut lands

Cuts here are sample-accurate, not frame-accurate. The audio is decoded, the pieces you kept are joined, and the result is encoded fresh — so a join lands exactly where you put it rather than snapping to the nearest compressed frame, which for MP3 would be up to 26 milliseconds away.

The trade-off is that trimming re-encodes. If you only need to shorten a file and do not want to lose any quality, extract to M4A instead: that copies the audio untouched, at the cost of the cut snapping to a frame boundary.

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Questions

Does cutting lose quality?
Cutting to MP3 or WAV re-encodes, so there is one generation of loss — inaudible at 192 kbps and above for most material. Extracting to M4A copies the original audio without touching it.
Can I cut a long recording?
Yes. The file is read in pieces rather than loaded whole, so a three-hour recording opens as quickly as a three-minute one. Drawing the full waveform takes a moment, and you can start selecting before it finishes.
Is there a watermark or a sign-up?
Neither. There is no account, no queue, and no audio stamp on the result.