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Cut or slice MP3 or WMA files easily and efficiently

Cut or slice MP3 or WMA files easily and efficiently

Vote: (69 votes)

Program license: Free

Developer: freestar1

Version: 2.0.2

Works under: Windows

Vote:

Program license

(69 votes)

Free

Developer

Version

freestar1

2.0.2

Works under:

Windows

Pros

  • Free
  • Easy-to-use

Cons

  • Strictly MP3
  • Only Cuts

As the name implies, Free MP3 Cutter is a simple program with one goal: to cut MP3 files. Available only for Windows, this program allows the user to take any MP3 file available and cut out the audio snippets needed. Gone are the days of downloading a song with a lot of silence. With this program, all the excess noise or lack of noise can be cut out in favor of the meat of the song or audio. It is also useful for retrieving specific pieces from speeches, dialogues, and other non-music audio files.

Its user interface is simple and only contains a few buttons that are not at all hard to learn. At the top, you choose the full MP3 file that needs to be cut. Directly below is the player with a bar indicating where in the song the player is stopped at as well as denoting where the cuts begin and end. Mark Start starts a cut and Mark End finishes it. Next to both buttons, the specific seconds of start and finish are listed to provide yet another way to track and cut with precision. Play selection allows you to immediately hear what you have chosen as the cut, allowing you to edit if something is off. Once the selection fits what you need, Save Selection saves the piece as an MP3 file to be used by you in whatever way you need it for. Other bits include a Free MP3 Tools buttons that suggests other programs that might interest you, a player volume button, and a progress bar along the bottom so that you always know how far along the program is while it is saving your cut.

Because of its simple nature, there will be users that are turned away from it. It does nothing more than cut MP3s, so if you are looking to cut and then join sounds, this is not the program for you. Also, this cutter only works with MP3 files and no other audio formats. On the other hand, with its simplicity also comes the fact that it takes up virtually no memory once installed. It is also intuitive and easy to learn. If you are in need of simply cutting out numerous swatches of sound from a long MP3 file or collecting snippets of files, Free MP3 Cutter is the best option on the market today.

Pros

  • Free
  • Easy-to-use

Cons

  • Strictly MP3
  • Only Cuts