Guides
Practical notes on trimming, loudness and ringtones from the people who built the editor.
06:00Lossless vs lossy audio trimming: what happens to your MP3 when you cut it
Editing an MP3 means decoding it, changing numbers and encoding it again. Here is what that second encode costs, why frame-accurate cutting is a different trade-off, and when a WAV master is worth the disk space.
07:00Peak vs loudness normalization: making clips sound equally loud
dBFS, peak, RMS and LUFS explained without the maths, the targets that broadcasters and streaming services actually use, and why an editor will sometimes refuse to reach the loudness you asked for.
06:00How to make a ringtone from any song on iPhone and Android
Picking a section that survives a phone speaker, cutting and fading it so it does not click, and the two different routes onto Android and iOS — including the length limit and the file extension iOS insists on.