Cut Out Part of Audio

How it works

1. Choose an audio file.
2. Select the section to remove on the waveform or with the time fields.
3. Preview the join, and add a short crossfade if it clicks.
4. Export and download the result.

Remove a section and join the rest

Select the part to delete and the audio before and after it is joined into one file. This suits cutting out a cough, an ad, a mistake or a long pause from the middle of a recording.

To avoid a click at the join, the end of the first part and the start of the second are faded over a few milliseconds. The default is 10 ms; raise it for a softer transition or set it to 0 for a hard splice.

Working precisely

Set the start and end by dragging, with the time fields or with the keyboard (I and O set the start and end at the playhead). Hear cut start and Hear cut end play a second around each point so you can check that you are cutting in silence. To keep a section instead of removing it, switch the mode to Keep selection.

What happens to the audio

Removing a section decodes the audio and encodes the joined result, so lossy formats are encoded once more. Choose WAV or FLAC as the output if you want to avoid that. The result is built in memory, which is fine for ordinary recordings; the page warns before a very long file.

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