# Is there any easy way to cut the first ten seconds of an mp3 song?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 12, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-easy-way-to-cut-the-first-ten-seconds-of-an-mp3-song/628010 "2012-07-12T15:31:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-easy-way-to-cut-the-first-ten-seconds-of-an-mp3-song/628010/21 "2012-07-18T15:08:11Z")

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I just wanted to say the iTunes fix worked beautifully, and now that I discovered it, there’s several other beginnings/endings I’d like to cut. Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-easy-way-to-cut-the-first-ten-seconds-of-an-mp3-song/628010/22 "2012-07-18T15:13:47Z")

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FYI, you can specify the start or end time down to the hundredth of a second, so you can cut it right between two close-together notes and not hear some annoying ‘blip’ of sound at the start or end.

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-easy-way-to-cut-the-first-ten-seconds-of-an-mp3-song/628010/23 "2012-07-18T15:50:21Z")

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Audacity. I think we’re at +2 or +3 now.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-easy-way-to-cut-the-first-ten-seconds-of-an-mp3-song/628010/24 "2012-07-18T16:01:19Z")

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> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> Audacity. I think we’re at +2 or +3 now.

Yeah I have that too, and it’s very good and very to use, though IMO it’s a little overkill for this particular job.

One real big plus about Audacity is that if you have the right kind of sound card, you can make a high quality recording of anything you can stream from the Web.

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