192 kbps on the way out
Whatever bitrate you started with, the piece is written at 192 kbps — stereo if the track you opened was stereo, mono if it was mono. That works out to roughly 1.4 MB for every minute you keep.
MP3 Cutter
Cut a piece out of an mp3 and save it, right in your browser.
or drop a file anywhere on this page
mp3, wav, m4a, aac, ogg, opus, flac, webm · up to 300 MB · up to about 50 minutes
Opening file…
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Click here to save the selected part
Ringtones and alert sounds
Thirty seconds is about as long as a phone rings, and five is plenty for a message alert. Set those numbers in the Start and End fields, listen once, then keep the result.
No watermark and no sign-up
Nobody talks over your clip and nothing is added to the end of it. There is no account to create either, and no daily limit on how often you come back.
How to cut an mp3
- Pick an mp3 from your computer, or drag one onto this page.
- Give the waveform a moment to draw, then pull the left and right handles to the stretch you are keeping.
- Hit Play selection and check that it begins and ends where you meant it to.
- Leave the format on MP3, press Save clip, and the file lands in your downloads folder.
For uncompressed audio there is a separate wav cutter, and the main editor takes every format the site supports.
Questions about mp3
Does cutting an mp3 make it sound worse?
Slightly, in theory. The track is decoded, the selection is taken out and then encoded once more at 192 kbps, and a second pass through a lossy encoder always costs something. On music played at normal volume the difference is hard to pick out. If you want to avoid that pass altogether, choose WAV as the output format.
Do the artist and title tags carry over?
No. The editor works with the decoded sound, not with the ID3 block at the head of the file, so the clip arrives with no tags at all. Fill them in afterwards in your music player or a tag editor. The clip is named after the file you opened, with -clip added before the extension.
How long should a ringtone be?
Around 30 seconds covers a full ring on both iPhone and Android, and five seconds is enough for a text or email alert. Start the selection on a beat rather than mid-phrase: the first second is all a caller hears before you answer.
How big a file will it take?
Up to 300 MB, and up to about 50 minutes of sound. For mp3 the length is what you run into first — a 50-minute track at 192 kbps weighs around 70 MB, nowhere near the size ceiling. The ceiling exists because the browser has to unpack the whole track into raw samples, and those take about fifteen times the room the mp3 does.
Is there any point saving an mp3 clip as wav?
Yes, when the piece is going into a video editor, a game engine or a sampler: those prefer uncompressed input and some of them refuse mp3 outright. Remember that wav cannot restore detail the mp3 already dropped — it only keeps the clip from losing more on the way out.