{"id":442,"date":"2011-09-13T00:35:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T23:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/?p=442"},"modified":"2011-09-13T00:36:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T23:36:14","slug":"trim-sound-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/index.php\/2011\/09\/13\/trim-sound-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Trim Sound File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Totally off-topic post today.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking for a quick and easy way of trimming an MP3 yesterday on my Mac (yes, I use a Mac for SharePoint dev) and stumbled across a free way of doing this with QuickTime.<\/p>\n<p>Open the sound file you want to trim in QuickTime and then press Ctrl+T (or Cmd-T on the Mac) and you&#8217;re able to mark the segment you want to trim, then just save the new version, et voil\u00e0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Totally off-topic post today. 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