How to crop a song on a computer

Today you can find a huge number of paid and free programs for the circumcision of songs. Among the paid software is to allocate Sony Sound Forge. The application is rather old (the latest versioncame out in 2010), but the program is still very popular, because it has a clear interface and ease of use. In addition, Sony Sound Forge works both under the operating system Microsoft Windows, and under Mac OS X. Also on the Internet you can find a huge number of lessons that show how to use the full functionality of this application.

The program is able to work with only one track, but you can impose a number of effects on it and save the resulting passage in almost any audio format.

As for free programs, in order to trim a song on a computer, it will perfectly suit mp3DirectCut, the distribution of which can be easily found on the World Wide Web. Download it and install the application.

Next, run the program and select the desired MP3 file that you want to crop. You can use the menu item "File", where you should choose "Open" or simply drag the selected track to the work area of ​​the program. Next, select the desired fragment of the song. If you want, you can even listen to it.

Besides, in the menu item "Edit" it is possible to make a fade (Fade Out) or increase (Fade In) of said fragment. Also here it is possible to raise the volume level if necessary.

After the desired fragment is selected and edited, go to the menu "File" and select item «Save Selection». Then specify the folder to save and come up with a name for the new file. Now it can be copied to a mobile phone and set as a call or an alarm clock.

It is also worth noting that there are online services for performing similar operations with files of various audio formats. One such service is Mp3cut. It supports working with flac, wav,wma, mp3, ogg, aac and many others. Also in this service you can add the effects of buildup and fading at the end and beginning of the track. In addition, the accuracy of trimming can be set to a millisecond, and the size of the track loaded for processing is practically unlimited.

Another thing worth paying attention to the built-in inversion function, which allows you to remove from the finished melody a certain part from the middle. For example, from one song you can cut out all the couplets and leave only choruses.

There are many analogues of such an online service, for example, "MP3 Cutter", "MobileZio".

As you could see, in order to trim a song on a computer, you do not really need any special knowledge in the field of sound engineering. Enough is enough download and install a specific program or use online services, which is quite fast and convenient. We hope that the advice given in this article will be helpful to you.