Shorten Song

This tool shortens a song to a length you pick. You tell it how long the final track should be, and it removes time from inside the song instead of chopping the end, so the result still lands on the music's natural beats rather than cutting off mid-phrase. It runs in your browser, free, with no signup or install, and works with common files like MP3 and WAV.

To use it, upload your audio. The tool analyzes the track and marks beats and section boundaries. Set your target duration, and it splices the song down to fit, picking cut points that land on the beat. Preview the result, nudge the cut if you want, then export.

The usual reason to shorten a song is fitting it to a fixed-length video or reel. If your clip runs 30 seconds and the song is three minutes, drop the song to 30 seconds and keep a real ending instead of a hard fade. The same works for trimming a track down for a performance, a presentation, or a ringtone.

Worth knowing: this works best when there are whole phrases or repeated sections to remove, because the tool splices between matching beats. A song with a clear verse-chorus structure shrinks more cleanly than a continuous, freeform piece.

The question most people have is whether the short version sounds like a crude cut. Because the join lands on detected beats and section edges, it's meant to pass as part of the song. Still, preview before exporting to confirm the transition sounds right to your ear.