Free Audio Trimmer

Trimming removes unwanted sections without touching playback speed, pitch, or format — it's just a clean cut to exactly the part you want. That covers a lot of ordinary needs: shortening a clip before sharing it, cutting silence off the start or end of a recording, pulling a short sample out of a longer track, or preparing a file for somewhere with its own length limits.

1. Upload an AAC, AIFF, FLAC, M4A, MP3, OGG, and WAV file.
2. Drag the start marker along the timeline to where you want the clip to begin.
3. Drag the end marker to where you want the clip to end.
4. Download the trimmed clip — same format as your upload.

"Trim" and "cut" describe the same operation here — selecting a start and end point and keeping only what's between them. Some people search for an "audio cutter," others for an "audio trimmer"; either way, this tool does exactly that: one clean cut, original format preserved.

Worth distinguishing from "splitting," which means breaking one file into several separate pieces rather than keeping a single section. That's a different tool: Split by Silence cuts a long recording into separate tracks wherever it finds a gap — useful for a live set, a vinyl rip, or a batch of takes recorded in one pass.

• Cutting a podcast segment down to a shareable clip
• Pulling a sample, intro, or hook from a longer track
• Trimming dead air off the start or end of a voice memo
• Grabbing just the chorus of a song for quick reference
• Making a ringtone-length clip from a longer recording
• Cutting a short section out of a field recording for a sample library
• Preparing a clip for a social media post or video edit

Need the clip in a different format too? Trim keeps the original format by design — run the result through the Format Converter afterward if you need something else. Need to strip silence throughout the whole file, not just cut one section? The Silence Remover handles that instead.

Want to know why a bad cut point can cause a click or pop, and how lossless vs. lossy formats handle trimming differently? Read How to Trim Audio Without Losing Quality.