Trimming music files

cheqmate06

Hi there

Has anyone any info on free or relativley cheap software that can be used to cut the size of music files. Am looking to make a few ringtones and don't need the full song,just a snippet of it.

Thanks in advance

Cheqmate06

PhilCo_2

Try http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ free open source sound editor.

foreversomeday

Audacity as PhilCo recommended is free software which will let you edit mp3 files, it is great. There are a lot of tutorials online too, just google "Audacity tutorial".

keggies

For a very simple - no nonsense piece of software try http://www.mptrim.com/ - dead easy to use:T

poppy10_2

keggies wrote: »

For a very simple - no nonsense piece of software try http://www.mptrim.com/ - dead easy to use:T

I can also recommend MP3DirectCut - a little more complicated to use than the above, but more powerful too.

donnajunkie

i have a question related to this. will these programmes allow the original track to stay on the pc as well? i dont want to have to download the whole track onto the pc again after editing the version that is on there for a ringtone.

davetrousers

Can you reduce the bitrate with any of these?

davetrousers

donnajunkie wrote: »

i have a question related to this. will these programmes allow the original track to stay on the pc as well? i dont want to have to download the whole track onto the pc again after editing the version that is on there for a ringtone.

Just copy the track beforehand

Iconic

davetrousers wrote: »

Can you reduce the bitrate with any of these?

I use Mp3DirectCut and thought it did because you can configure between 32 and 320kbit/s but when I cut and saved a previously recorded MP3 it didn't change the bitrate

vyseyboy

Another vote for audacity.

You can re-encode at any bitrate, mono, stereo, with the LAME MP3 encoder.

Awesome software, many plugins.

I've recorded lo-fi multi-track demos for bands using this.

BigBouncyBall

+1 for audacity