What Is the Audio Fragment Extractor?
The audio fragment extractor cuts a specific time range from an audio file and saves it as a new file. Specify a start time and end time, and SoundWorks extracts that exact segment. Useful for isolating quotes, samples, sound effects, or specific sections from longer recordings.
Why Use Fragment Extraction?
Isolate specific content. Pull a single quote from a long interview, extract a chorus from a song, or cut a sound effect from a longer recording.
Prepare samples. Create voice reference samples for voice cloning by extracting clean segments from longer recordings.
Trim recordings. Remove silence, intros, or unwanted sections from the beginning or end of audio files.
Feed other workflows. Extract a clean segment to use as input for voice cloning, audio mastering, or transcription.
How It Works
Step 1: Open an audio file. Load any supported audio format (MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, OGG, and more).
Step 2: Set time range. Specify the start and end time for the segment you want to extract. Use hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds for precise positioning.
Step 3: Extract. SoundWorks cuts the specified segment and saves it as a new file. Choose to copy the audio stream losslessly or re-encode to a different format.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the cutting lossless? When the output format matches the input format, SoundWorks can perform stream-copy cutting without re-encoding. This preserves full quality and is nearly instant.
Can I extract multiple fragments from the same file? Yes. Run the fragment extractor multiple times with different time ranges to extract several segments from the same source file.
How precise is the timing? Timing precision depends on the audio format. For lossless stream-copy mode, cuts align to the nearest audio frame boundary. For re-encoded mode, cuts are precise to the millisecond.
Can I extract from video files too? Yes. Use the audio extraction feature first to pull the audio from video, then use the fragment extractor on the resulting audio file. Or extract audio for a specific time range in one step.