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Audio Trimmer.

Drag the handles to mark a region, add smooth fades, then keep the selection or cut it out. Perfect clips and ringtones in seconds.

Before-and-after illustration of Audio Trimmer: Long source file becomes Trimmed clip through Set cut and fades.
Before → process → afterSee the signal story, then hear it in the workspace.

TIMELINE MAP

Clip Boundary Editor

Turn one long waveform into deliberate boundaries. The visual emphasizes the selection, transition and resulting edit so that timing decisions remain obvious before anything is rendered.

Before-and-after illustration of Audio Trimmer: Long source file becomes Trimmed clip through Set cut and fades.
Long source fileSet cut and fadesTrimmed clip
A timeline edit: marked regions, handles and transitions resolve into clean finite segments without hiding where each boundary came from.
Open the full signal breakdownBest source, processing logic, limits and three-pass listening check
  1. Start with the right material

    Short clips, podcast cleanup, ringtone excerpts and removing unwanted starts or endings.

  2. Understand the transformation

    The chosen sample ranges are copied locally, faded if requested and encoded into the selected export.

  3. Verify the usable result

    A trimmed or cut-out audio file using the visible selection boundaries.

Selection duration

Where this workflow stops

Compressed exports are re-encoded. WAV avoids lossy encoding but may quantize a higher-bit-depth source to 16-bit, and edits are limited by available device memory.

THREE-PASS CHECK

Make the final decision by ear

  • Zoom into every boundary and listen across it, not only inside it.
  • Leave intentional handles when another editor will continue the work.
  • Verify exact duration and ordering after the final render.

How to trim audio online

  1. Drop an audio file into the upload box — the waveform appears instantly.
  2. Drag the start and end handles to mark your region; exact times and selection length are shown below the waveform.
  3. Choose Keep selection or Remove selection, and add fade in / fade out if you want smooth edges.
  4. Press Preview selection to check the cut, then download it as WAV or 320 kbps MP3.

This audio trimmer and MP3 cutter is built around a visual waveform, so you cut by sight and sound rather than typing timestamps: spikes show where the drop hits, silence shows where the take ends. Remove mode deletes the selected region and stitches the remainder together with a short crossfade, useful for cutting a cough out of a podcast or an ad out of a recording. Processing runs on your device, and selected files are not uploaded to AudioWrench.

Typical jobs: ringtones from a chorus, intro clips for streams, tight voice-over takes, sample chopping and shortening voice memos. To glue several clips together afterwards, hand the pieces to the Audio Joiner.

Audio Trimmer: quick answer and technical limits

Quick answer: A waveform editor for keeping or removing a selected time range, with optional fades at the cut edges.

Best for
Short clips, podcast cleanup, ringtone excerpts and removing unwanted starts or endings.
How it works
The chosen sample ranges are copied locally, faded if requested and encoded into the selected export.
What you get
A trimmed or cut-out audio file using the visible selection boundaries.

Know before you use it: Compressed exports are re-encoded. WAV avoids lossy encoding but may quantize a higher-bit-depth source to 16-bit, and edits are limited by available device memory.

Public browser workflow evidence

Question: Can the real waveform handles keep exactly 1.00–3.00 seconds of a four-segment fixture and exclude the authored outer tone segments from the downloaded WAV?

Observed result: The visible handles selected 1.00–3.00 seconds and exported an exact 2.00-second PCM16 WAV (192,044 bytes) containing the 330/440 Hz middle segments with no measured 220/660 Hz leakage.

Evidence boundary: This case covers keep-selection with zero fades and pointer-position handles. Remove mode, fades and touch-specific gestures remain outside this wave.

Network observation: No audio-payload or cross-origin requests were observed during this published workflow.

Open the public benchmark, method and fixture →

Privacy: Selected audio is processed in this browser and is not uploaded to AudioWrench. Normal page assets can still be requested as described in the privacy notice. Privacy details →

FAQ

How do I cut a section out of an MP3?
Drop the MP3 on the page, drag the two handles on the waveform around the part you want, and choose Keep selection to save just that part — or Remove selection to delete it and keep everything else. Then press Cut now and download the result.
Is trimming lossless?
The source is decoded to PCM, cut and encoded into a new file. WAV avoids lossy compression, but the 16-bit WAV option can quantize a higher-resolution source. MP3 is re-encoded at 320 kbps and is lossy. This is not bit-perfect container trimming.
Can I add a fade in or fade out to the clip?
Yes — separate fade-in and fade-out sliders apply smooth linear fades of up to 3 seconds to the result, so a clip cut from the middle of a song does not start or stop abruptly.
Is this MP3 cutter free, and are my files uploaded?
It is free with no signup or watermark. The waveform, cutting and export run inside your browser, so audio is not sent to a server. Inputs are capped at 200 MB and available device memory sets the practical duration.