Trim and cut MP3, WAV and more — adjust volume, speed, pitch, EQ and fades, then export. Free — No Sign-Up
Drag the handles on the waveform (or type start/end) to select a section. Adjust volume, speed, pitch, EQ and fades, preview it, then save as WAV or MP3. Nothing is uploaded — it all runs in your browser.
Once your edit is done, make sure the track passes AI screening. Check it for AI-generated content and clean any artifacts before you send it to distributors or streaming platforms.
The artefactFX Audio Cutter is a free tool that lets you trim any song or recording without installing anything. Drop in an MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A or OGG file, drag the handles on the waveform to pick the exact section you want, and export a clean cut as a lossless WAV or an MP3.
It's more than a cutter: you can change the volume, speed and pitch, shape the sound with a 3-band EQ, and add smooth fade in / fade out of up to 15 seconds. Everything runs locally in your browser — your audio is never uploaded, so it's instant and completely private.
Three steps. A few seconds.
Load an MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A or OGG. It's decoded right in your browser and drawn as a waveform.
Drag the handles to set start and end, then tweak volume, speed, pitch, EQ and fades. Preview it live.
Export your cut as a lossless WAV or an MP3 — downloaded straight to your device.
A full mini-editor, not just a pair of scissors.
Drag the handles or type exact start/end times, scrub the playhead, and see your selection on the waveform.
Turn the clip up or down, slow it down or speed it up, and shift the pitch by up to ±12 semitones.
Shape lows, mids and highs, and add smooth fade in / fade out of 1–15 seconds — visible on the waveform.
Save a lossless 24-bit WAV or an MP3. No watermark, no upload — the file is built in your browser.
Whatever you need a clean clip for.
Grab a loop, chop a sample or make a clean edit for your set — with the pitch and tempo you need.
Trim music or voiceover to length and fade it in and out so it sits cleanly under your edit.
Cut out mistakes, trim intros and outros, and export a clean segment ready for your episode.
Cut a favorite hook into a short clip or ringtone and export it in seconds — no app required.
Precision is the difference between a clip that sounds intentional and one that sounds clipped. When you drop a file into the artefactFX Audio Cutter, the full waveform is drawn on screen so you can see where the music starts, where the beat drops and where a phrase ends. To make a cut, drag the two handles on the waveform to bracket the section you want to keep — the shaded region between them is exactly what will be exported. The rest is discarded.
Dragging is great for a rough selection, but for surgical edits you can type the exact start and end times in seconds into the two input boxes. This is the fastest way to hit a musically meaningful point — the top of a bar, the last downbeat before a chorus, or a clean silence between words. To find that point, click anywhere on the waveform to move the playhead and scrub through the audio: the playhead read-out shows your position down to the second, so you can nudge the handles until the loop is seamless. A few practical habits make cuts cleaner:
Most people reach for an audio cutter with a specific length in mind. A ringtone usually needs to be under 30–40 seconds and should open on the hook — the most recognizable part of the song — so it grabs attention the instant the phone rings. For a social clip on TikTok, Reels or Shorts, you're often trimming to a hard platform limit and want the punchiest 15–60 seconds, ideally starting on the beat so the video feels tight from frame one.
For podcasters and video editors, the common jobs are intros and outros: trimming a music bed to sit under a spoken opener, or clipping a stinger to close an episode. Here the exact-time inputs shine — you can trim a bed to precisely the length of your voiceover, then fade it so it ducks cleanly under the narration. Because the tool loads MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, AAC and OGG, you can pull audio straight from almost any source without a conversion step first. If you do need to change container or codec afterward, our audio converter handles that in the same private, in-browser way.
A hard cut in the middle of a sustained note or a busy mix produces an audible click or an abrupt jolt. A fade smooths that boundary by ramping the volume up at the start (fade in) or down at the end (fade out) over a set time. The Audio Cutter lets you toggle fade in and fade out independently and set the length anywhere from 1 to 15 seconds, and it draws the fade envelope right on the waveform so you can see the taper before you commit.
Different jobs want different fades. A short 1–2 second fade in hides the click at the top of a loop or ringtone. A longer 5–10 second fade out is the classic way to end a song or a background bed without a jarring stop. For a music bed under a voiceover, a gentle fade at both ends keeps the transition invisible. Fades are applied to the exported file, so what you preview is what you get.
A cutter that only cuts leaves you doing the rest in another app. This one bundles the three adjustments you most often need on a clip. Volume lets you push a quiet clip up or pull a hot one down by up to ±24 dB — handy when a sample sits too loud against the rest of a project. If you need to match a precise integrated loudness target for streaming or broadcast, measure the result with our LUFS meter after exporting.
Speed changes how fast the clip plays back, from half-speed to double-speed, which is perfect for fitting a bed to a fixed video length or creating a slowed/sped-up edit. Pitch shifts the clip by up to ±12 semitones — a full octave in either direction — so you can transpose a sample into the key of your track or drop a vocal down for effect. Both are previewed live, so you can dial in the exact feel before rendering.
The built-in 3-band equalizer gives you quick tonal control over the clip without leaving the page. It splits the frequency spectrum into three practical zones:
A little goes a long way — a few dB is usually enough to fix a dull or boomy clip. The EQ is not a substitute for full mixing or mastering, but it's ideal for making a trimmed clip sit right in context before you export it.
When you save, you can export a lossless 24-bit WAV or a compressed MP3. The right choice depends on what happens next. Choose WAV when the clip is going back into a project — a DAW session, a video edit, or another round of processing — because it preserves every bit of quality with no generation loss. It's the safe default whenever the file isn't the final deliverable.
Choose MP3 when the file is the finished product and size matters: a ringtone, an email attachment, a quick share, or a web upload where a smaller file is more convenient. MP3 is lossy, so avoid repeatedly re-encoding a clip through it if you can help it — each pass throws away a little more detail. If you later need a different format entirely, run the WAV through our audio converter.
Most "online" cutters upload your file to a server, cut it there, and send it back — which is slow, needs a connection, and means your audio leaves your device. The artefactFX Audio Cutter works differently: your file is decoded and edited entirely in your browser using the Web Audio API. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and no account is required. That makes it faster (there's no round-trip), more private (unreleased music never leaves your machine), and usable even on flaky connections. It's the same privacy-first approach behind our other browser tools, including the audio converter and the LUFS meter.
Your export can only ever be as good as your source. Start from a lossless file (WAV or FLAC) whenever possible — cutting from a high-quality source and exporting to WAV keeps the clip pristine. If your source is already a lossy MP3, that's fine for casual use, but remember its quality ceiling is fixed; exporting it to WAV won't add back detail the MP3 already discarded. For anything you'll process further, keep a lossless copy around.
A reliable end-to-end workflow looks like this:
The Audio Cutter is free with no sign-up. If you go on to check and clean tracks at volume, our pricing plans cover higher limits — but trimming, fading and exporting clips here will always be free.
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