Audio Editing Tools

mp3DirectCut is a small and efficient tool for cutting MP3 directly. That means you don`t have to decompress your MP3 files into a PCM format to remove parts or copy regions out of it. This saves work, encoding time and disk space. And there is no quality loss through any re-compressions! Trim your CD grabbings or your directly to MP3 recorded vinyls or tapes. Cut favourit songs from long MP3 radio or live recordings. Make multiple cuts and remove everything you want in frame resolution from MP3 files

Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.

trakAxPC enables you to create professional music and video mixes without any special skills or technical expertise. It provides a drag and drop interface to easily add files from your computer and to record from your microphone or web cam. The program supports beat matching technology, so your layered tracks will will rhythmically work together. You can create audio-only mixes or combine them with video and/or pictures. Other features include integrated CD ripping, audio and video effects, and more. trakAxPC is free to use, the company offers optional TrakPacks (audio loops and effects) that can be purchased. The program can render your mixes to WMA and WAV format.

mpTrim enables you to trim portions from an MP3 file. You can set the trim positions in seconds or by frame number, or use auto-detection to trim silence from the file. Furthermore you can choose from 3 pre-defined fading effects, remove invalid information from corrupted MP3 files, add silence, normalize the volume and more. mpTrim supports ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, and can either maintain existing tags, remove them, or update them when the file is edited. Standalone program, no installation needed. A Pro version with some more advanced features is also available.

Wavosaur is an audio editor with support for wav, aiff, iff, mp3 and raw binary files. It includes the standard editing features (cut, copy, mix, trim, normalize, fade in/out etc.) as well as loop point editing, synthesis generators, 3D and 2D spectrum analysis and more. Wavosaur also offers support for VST plugins, ASIO drivers, batch processing, stereo/mono conversion and more. All of this is a small executable that does not require an installation.

Audioblast is a sound editor for WAV and MP3 files that supports all the standard editing features (copy, paste, make echo, change volume etc.) as well as several special effects and a choice of graphic schemes. It also includes advanced volume adjustments and normalizing, fade-in and fade-out, and an option to add silence to the end of the track. You can mix your own tracks, adjust the speed, record audio via your microphone and more. AudioBlast comes with a synthesizer, and even a Morse code converter.

Soliton is a sound editor that allows you to record and edit WAV files. You can view a wave file spectrum, change the sampling rate and amplitude resolution, and also to apply some basic filters and effects.

Shuangz Audio Editor is simple audio editor that enables you to split and cut WAV, MP3 and WMA files. In addition, you can adjust the volume of the entire track, or a portion of it, and use fade in/out effects for smooth transitions.