Audio Cutter
Cut and trim audio directly in your browser with a visual waveform. Keep the section you need or remove unwanted parts, refine cut points, add fade-in or fade-out, preview the result, and export a supported format without uploading the source to Pixwit.
Drop audio or video here — or click to browse
Choose a file from your device. Everything runs locally in your browser.
Supports MP3, WAV, OGG, WMA, AAC, and video (MP4, AVI, MOV). Max 500.00 MB. For cloud storage, download the file first, then upload.
No audio file? Try a sample
Click a preset to load it and start trimming right away
How to Use the Audio Cutter
Upload your audio or video
Choose an audio file from your device or use a compatible video when the sound you need is inside a clip. Common inputs include MP3, WAV, OGG, WMA, AAC, MP4, MOV, and AVI. For cloud storage, download the source to your device first. The editing workflow then runs locally in your browser.
Trim and refine
Use the waveform to find the exact section you want. Split at a timestamp, drag cut lines to refine the boundary, and mark segments as Keep or Remove. For a simple extract, keep only the highlighted passage; for cleanup, remove unwanted intros, pauses, mistakes, or endings while preserving the rest of the recording.
Preview and download
Listen before exporting so you can catch abrupt starts, clipped words, or unwanted silence. Add a short fade when a boundary needs to sound smoother, choose MP3, WAV, or OGG when supported by your browser, and download the finished file directly to your device.
Audio Cutter Features
Precise waveform audio cutter
This audio cutter splits the waveform into multiple clips, lets you keep or remove each segment, and drag cut lines for frame-accurate precision.
Clear editing controls
The focused interface keeps waveform edits easy to review while you refine the sound.
Browser-based editing
Open the cutter in a modern browser and start editing without installing a desktop application.
Fade in and fade out
Smooth the beginning and end of your clip in one click so cuts from this audio cutter do not sound abrupt.
Broad format support
Upload MP3, WAV, OGG, WMA, AAC, and more. Video files like MP4 or MOV are converted to audio automatically for editing.
Privacy-first workflow
Decoding and export run in your browser. You keep control of your recordings and mixes.
How to Cut Audio Cleanly
A good trim is more than choosing a start and end time. The best cut depends on speech rhythm, musical phrasing, silence, background noise, and what the clip will be used for. A waveform gives you a visual map of the recording, while preview playback helps you confirm that the edit sounds natural before export.
Use the waveform to find precise cut points
Waveform peaks show louder moments and smaller shapes often indicate quieter passages or silence. Zooming in and dragging a boundary can help you avoid cutting through the middle of a word, breath, drum hit, or musical note. For spoken recordings, leave enough room around the first and last word so the result does not feel clipped.
Extract a section or remove unwanted audio
Two common trimming jobs are extracting one useful passage and deleting an unwanted passage. Extract mode is useful for ringtones, highlights, quotes, hooks, and short samples. Remove mode is useful for cutting mistakes, long pauses, irrelevant intros, or sections in the middle of a longer recording while keeping the surrounding material.
Use fades when a hard boundary sounds abrupt
A short fade-in can soften a clip that begins suddenly, while fade-out can prevent an ending from feeling chopped off. Fades are especially helpful with music, room tone, sustained sounds, and recordings where the selected range does not naturally begin or end in silence. Always preview the result because an unnecessarily long fade can weaken speech or musical impact.
Choose an export format for the next step
MP3 is convenient when compact size and broad playback support matter. WAV is useful when you want an uncompressed working file for later editing, although it can be much larger. OGG can be useful in compatible open-media workflows. If you plan to edit the clip again, keep the original source as well as the trimmed export.
Common Ways to Trim and Cut Audio
Create a ringtone or notification clip
Find a recognizable 15–30 second passage, set clean boundaries, preview the start and end, and add subtle fades when needed. Export a format that your phone or ringtone workflow accepts. Device-specific ringtone installation is separate from trimming, so keep the downloaded clip available for the next step.
Clean up podcasts and voice recordings
Remove false starts, long pauses, setup chatter, or an unwanted section without opening a full desktop workstation. For speech, listen around every boundary and leave natural breaths where they help the sentence flow. Keep a copy of the original recording before making destructive changes elsewhere in your workflow.
Extract audio from a video
When dialogue, a lecture, narration, or another useful sound is stored inside a compatible video file, load the video and work with its audio track. Select the passage you need and export it as standalone audio, avoiding the extra storage and visual content of the original video when only sound is required.
Prepare short music and social clips
Trim a longer track to a hook, chorus, intro, transition, or other short passage for a draft or publishing workflow. Pay attention to musical phrasing rather than cutting only by duration: starting just before a beat and ending at a natural phrase boundary often sounds cleaner than an arbitrary timestamp.
Common questions
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Cut Your Audio File
Return to the waveform editor above, choose the section you want to keep or remove, preview the result, and export it in your browser.