2Drag the start and end handles on the waveform or the timeline, or type exact timecodes if you already know them.
3Preview the selection and run the cut — the part you keep is copied through untouched wherever the format allows it.
4Download the trimmed FLAC file.
FLAC Cutter FAQ
Anything specific to FLAC when trimming?
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Yes — FLAC decodes bit-identically to the source, so any number of edit-and-resave cycles cost you nothing in fidelity. It explains most of the "the cut is a fraction of a second off" surprises.
Is the part I keep re-encoded?
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Not if the format allows a stream copy — the data you keep is bit-identical to the source and the job finishes in about the time the upload took. Only a frame-exact cut on a format that cannot do it cheaply needs a re-encode.
How does FLAC Cutter cut the file?
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Concretely, the cut is sample-exact, so you can place the boundary precisely where you want it rather than on the nearest frame, and the surviving audio is bit-identical to the source. You set the start and end points on the waveform or the timeline and keep what is between them.
How precisely can I place the start and end points?
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You can type exact timecodes rather than only dragging, and the preview scrubs to the position as you move it. How exact the result can be depends on the format: some allow a cut anywhere, others snap to the nearest frame or keyframe.
Does FLAC Cutter cost anything?
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No. FLAC Cutter is free with no account required, and nothing is added to the audio. Uploads are deleted from the workers shortly after the job finishes.
What can I upload to FLAC Cutter?
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WAV, FLAC and AIFF, at any bit depth and sample rate up to and including 24-bit/192 kHz. Lossy files work in the same batch if you are mixing sources.
Is there a file size limit on FLAC Cutter?
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Yes: free accounts process audio up to 200 MB per file — for uncompressed PCM that is roughly twenty minutes of CD-quality stereo, so it is a real limit here in a way it is not for MP3. If you are over it, converting WAV to FLAC first is the free fix — it is lossless and roughly halves the size.
Are bit depth and sample rate preserved?
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Yes, unless you change them deliberately. A 24-bit/96 kHz source stays 24-bit/96 kHz — nothing is silently downsampled to 16/44.1, which is the failure mode that makes a master unusable.
Why does a MP3 site host FLAC Cutter?
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MP3.to is built around the format that made portable audio ordinary: universally playable, small enough to ignore, and lossy in a way that only matters if you keep re-encoding it. Audio jobs cluster: the same person who needs a format changed usually needs the file cut, levelled or made smaller in the same sitting. Putting FLAC Cutter behind the same upload, the same caps and the same account is what turns three tabs into one.
What should I do with the result once FLAC Cutter is finished?
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The converter on this site moves audio between MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, OGG and Opus, so the output format is a decision you can leave until the end rather than commit to at the start. Doing that after FLAC Cutter rather than before means the encode happens once, on the file you actually settled on, instead of twice.
Is FLAC Cutter here the same tool the sibling sites run?
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The engines are shared — the same ffmpeg build, the same workers, the same limits. What a MP3 site adds is a point of view about bitrates, about what survives an encode and about when a lossless intermediate is worth the upload time. It also starts from one fact about the format this site is named after: MP3 frames are fixed-size blocks, so a cut lands on a frame boundary and gapless playback markers do not survive a re-encode.
Do I need an account, and does anything get kept?
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No account, and nothing is kept: uploads are deleted from the workers shortly after the job finishes, nothing is listened to and nothing is indexed. Free accounts exist for history and batch size, not for access.
