Audio cutter trim any track, free

Free, nothing installed: no account needed, and files up to 120 MB or an hour of audio are fine.

By Sam Ridder · Last updated: September 2026

It trims music, voice memos and audiobook chapters alike: every upload can be MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC or OGG, and the download always comes back as an MP3.

What goes in, what comes out

As an audio trimmer it accepts MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG or a video file: the sound is taken out of a video automatically. You always get an MP3 back, encoded at high-quality VBR. Drop in a video and this becomes a video cutter in the process; drop in a track and it's a plain audio cutter, same waveform, same handles.

• Waveform on screen, so you can see where the silence and the chorus are
• Play the selection before you commit to it
• Cut to a hundredth of a second with the sliders, or the arrow keys for fine work
• Your upload is deleted the moment the cut comes back

Cutting audio online, free

Audio cutting online here needs nothing installed and no account: files up to 120 MB or an hour of audio go in as MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC or OGG, and every export comes back as an MP3 at the same quality whether or not you have a pass. To cut MP3 file online, drag the handles to the part worth keeping and press Cut it; an audio cut removes everything outside those two markers. An MP3 cut keeps exactly that stretch, so trim a long intro and you get a cut song that starts at the chorus. As an audio file cutter online it takes a WAV or M4A just as easily, and to cut MP3 online, or cut audio online in any other format, works the same on a phone as on a desktop. It works as a music cutter for full songs and as a sound cutter online for short effects, a cutter music producers can use for quick samples. You can cut music free of any account or watermark; to cut songs online MP3 is the only output, so the result plays everywhere.

How to trim an audio file

1. Drop your file in the box above.
2. Drag the Start and End handles to the part you want to keep: the greyed-out parts are what gets thrown away.
3. Press Play selection to hear exactly that piece.
4. Press Cut it and download the MP3.

Turning a clip into a ringtone

Making a ringtone is the single most common use for this cutter. Trim to the hook, around 20 to 30 seconds is the usual length, and download the MP3. On Android you can set an MP3 as a ringtone directly; on iPhone the ringtone has to be an M4R made in GarageBand or iTunes, which is an Apple restriction rather than something a website can do for you.

Used as a ringtone maker, it trims the hook to those 20-30 seconds and gives you the MP3 to put on the phone. Remember the iPhone step, since this page only produces the MP3 and the M4R conversion still needs GarageBand or iTunes. For an Android ringtone, a free song cutter online that returns a plain MP3 is all you need, because the phone does the rest.

From a YouTube video, or switching from Clideo and 123apps

Want a piece of a YouTube song as an MP3? This isn't a YouTube cutter that takes a link, and there's no YouTube cutter MP3 download here; you need the file itself. If you have it as a video, drop the video in directly (the sound is taken out automatically), or use extract audio from video first.

Related: Cut a Piece Out of Any Audio File: Free MP3 Cutter, No Signup, Extract the Audio From a Video: Free MP3, No Signup.

Coming from the Clideo MP3 cutter, the Clideo audio cutter or the 123apps MP3 cutter? The drag-and-cut works the same broad way here, with no account and no watermark on the export.

Works on any device

As an audio cutter browser tool it needs nothing beyond Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox. There's no separate audio cutter for pc build and no audio cutter android install: the same page works on any device. Skip the song cutter app: the handles work by touch in the phone's browser, and the MP3 downloads straight to the device.

When you want more than a trim

Cutting keeps everything that was in that stretch, singing and backing together. If you need them apart, the vocal on its own, the backing without the singer, that's the vocal remover, on the same file. Two clips to put after each other instead? Use the audio joiner. Recording something first? The voice recorder runs in this same browser tab.

Want the pieces back together afterwards instead: an audio trimmer and merger workflow, or an online mp3 joiner and cutter combination? Cut first, then stitch the results back with the audio joiner.

Making a Discord soundboard clip

There is a Discord soundboard clip checkbox in the cutting panel above, and it does two things a plain trim does not. It holds the clip to 5 seconds, which is Discord's hard ceiling for a soundboard sound, go over and the upload is simply refused, and it evens out the loudness, because a clip that was quiet in the source is still quiet coming out of somebody's headphones mid-conversation. That second part is what separates a usable discord soundboard maker from a plain trimmer: the sound has to land, not just fit.

What you get back is an MP3, which is what Discord wants, so discord soundboard mp3 and mp3 to discord soundboard both come from the same trip through this page: drop the file in, drag the handles over the bit you want, tick the box, download, then add it in Discord under Server Settings → Soundboard. The source can be an MP3, a WAV, or the audio off a video: it all comes out the same way.

Precise cuts and quality

Used as an audio cropper, it's the waveform that does the work. As an audio snipping tool it marks a start and end point on the waveform and exports just that stretch, down to a hundredth of a second; the arrow keys nudge each handle once the rough cut is close. The waveform also shows where the silence and the chorus are, so marking the cut is quick even on a long track, and you can replay the selection as many times as needed first. When you are cutting songs online, look at the waveform first: the quiet gaps between phrases show up as flat stretches, and they are the cleanest places to put a handle.

The trimmed piece is re-encoded to MP3 at high-quality VBR (around 175 kbps on average). As an online audio cutter it keeps the loss small: on a file that was already MP3 you're re-compressing once, which nobody hears, and so it isn't worth worrying about; starting from WAV or FLAC there is a single compression step. It does one job, mark a start and end point and export; for multi-clip work you'd need a full audio editor.

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