MP3 Cutter

Cut the part of a song you love and save it as an MP3 or a ready-to-use iPhone ringtone - right in your browser. Cleaning up a long recording instead? The Audio Trimmer removes silence and pauses for you.

How to cut an MP3

  1. Add your song. Drop an MP3 (or M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG) into the box. The waveform appears in a second - nothing is uploaded.
  2. Pick the part. Drag the two handles, type exact start and end times, or press Find the best 30 s. Zoom in for a precise cut.
  3. Listen and polish. Play the selection or the Result, add a fade in and out, and choose Keep selection or Remove selection.
  4. Save it. Choose MP3, M4R for iPhone, M4A or WAV and press Save. Several parts come as a ZIP with a README.

Want just the catchy bit? Press Find the best 30 s - it jumps to the loudest stretch of the song, which is usually the chorus.

Make a ringtone in three clicks

Ringtones need the right length and the right format.

Press Find the best 30 s, then iPhone 30 s or Android 30 s. The preset keeps 30 seconds, adds a short fade in and a 2 second fade out, and picks M4R for iPhone or MP3 for Android.

  • iPhone: connect it to your computer, open it in Finder (Mac) or iTunes (Windows) and drag the M4R onto the phone. It appears under Settings - Sounds - Ringtone. iOS lists ringtones up to 40 seconds.
  • Android: copy the MP3 into the Ringtones folder (or open it and pick Set as ringtone). Any length works, 30 seconds is the sweet spot.

Got the song in a video? Pull the sound out first with Video to MP3.

Cut, remove or split

Three ways to save, one waveform.

  • Keep selection - saves only the highlighted part. Classic trimming.
  • Remove selection - cuts the highlighted part out and joins both sides with a click-free 10 ms crossfade. Perfect for removing an ad, a cough or a long intro.
  • Several parts - add as many parts as you like and get one file each, zipped when there are more than two.

Want to stick clips back together in a new order? The Audio Joiner merges them with gaps or crossfades.

Which format should I save?

FormatBest forMade
MP3Android ringtones, car stereos, sharingIn your browser (LAME)
M4RiPhone ringtones (up to 40 s)In your browser or on our server
M4AApple Music, WhatsApp, voice notesIn your browser or on our server
WAVEditing further, exact qualityIn your browser
OGG / FLACGames and Android / lossless archiveOn our server

Chrome, Edge and Safari on Windows and Mac can write AAC themselves, so M4R and M4A never leave your computer there. Elsewhere our server encodes the finished cut and deletes it right after.

Need a different format for the whole song instead? Try WAV to MP3, M4A to MP3 or FLAC to MP3.

Tips for a clean cut

  • Zoom in with the slider or Ctrl + mouse wheel and cut in a quiet moment between beats - the cut is inaudible.
  • Use the arrow keys on a focused handle to nudge it by 0.1 s (Shift for 1 s). Space plays, [ and ] set the start and end at the play position.
  • Press Result before saving to hear exactly what you will get, fades and all.
  • Keep the tags - title, artist and album travel into your MP3, so it shows up properly in music apps.

Frequently Asked Questions

Drop the MP3 into the box, drag the two handles around the part you want and press Save MP3.

For an exact cut, type the start and end times or zoom in on the waveform.

Pick the part (or press Find the best 30 s), then press iPhone 30 s or iPhone 40 s and Save. You get an M4R file.

Connect your iPhone, open it in Finder or iTunes and drag the M4R onto it. iOS lists ringtones up to 40 seconds.

Press Android 30 s and save the MP3. Copy it into the Ringtones folder of your phone, or open it and choose Set as ringtone.

Yes. Select the part you do not want and pick Remove selection. Both sides are joined with a tiny crossfade, so there is no click.

No - cutting happens in your browser and MP3 and WAV are saved right there.

Only OGG and FLAC, and M4A or M4R in browsers without their own AAC encoder, are encoded on our server from your finished cut. That file is deleted right after.

The cut part is decoded and saved again, so an MP3 is re-encoded once. At Match (the bitrate of your file) or 192 kbps and above, the difference is very hard to hear. WAV and FLAC lose nothing.

Yes. The ID3 tags of your file (title, artist, album, year) are copied into the new MP3, and you can edit them under Tags before saving.

There is no upload, so the limit is your device memory. Songs and podcasts up to a few hours work fine on a computer; on phones, keep files under about an hour.

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