# Trimming silences from MP3s

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trimming-silences-from-mp3s/60446>\
**Category:** Off-Topic\
**Created:** [March 21, 2023, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trimming-silences-from-mp3s/60446 "2023-03-21T12:08:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![bigcitydealer](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@bigcitydealer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bigcitydealer)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trimming-silences-from-mp3s/60446/1 "2023-03-21T12:08:11Z")

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Apologies if off topic please feel free to delete if you feel it's not appropriate.  
I have about 28,000 mp3s and I'm looking for recommendations if somebody has used a program that can automatically batch trim silences beginning and end?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trimming-silences-from-mp3s/60446/2 "2023-03-21T12:24:28Z")

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Have a look at mp3DirectCut. One of it's features is trimming silence.

> **[mp3DirectCut - Cut MP3 and AAC in Windows - Download](https://mpesch3.de/)**
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> mp3DirectCut Home - Free and fast multi tool for Windows and Linux/Wine with lossless editing: Cut, crop, split MP3, AAC, MP4, fade, normalize and record MP3.

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**Author:** ![bigcitydealer](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@bigcitydealer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bigcitydealer)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trimming-silences-from-mp3s/60446/3 "2023-03-21T13:10:04Z")

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Thanks. I had a look and it can trim x seconds from the beginning and end but I wanted something more configurable. I wanted the silences at the beginning to be no more than 1 second and don't think mp3directcut can do that.

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**Author:** ![Roland](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/roland/32/8001_2.png) [@Roland](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Roland)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/trimming-silences-from-mp3s/60446/4 "2023-11-03T14:14:14Z")

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As far as I understood your question a FOOBAR2000 module may help.  
It's used during conversation and has options for configuration.

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