I have heard time and time again that school firewalls and software policy prevents Audacity from being installed and used on school computer to allow audio editing that is taught in the Podcast Academy workshops. You may also find yourself away from a computer that has your editing tools loaded and just need to do a quick edit to make something fit a time line or delete sections that do not cover the topics you wish to address.

I found a post on the blog Lifehacker this morning that may just be the solution to the situation. http://cutmp3.net/ allows you to quickly upload and mp3 file and trim its starting and ending points and then save it back to your computer with a file name of your choice.

The interface is simple and quick. There are no effects or other “fancy” adjustments, so correction with this tool is not really possible. It may serve as a great tool to allow primary grades to do their own editing and save a teacher some time of doing all the work.

As a side note, if you are not currently following the blog Lifehacker I really encourage you to do so. The blog always posts helpful hints on a wide range of subjects to save time on things.

You can follow this link to read the quick post of Cutmp3 on Lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/5495435/cutmp3net-extracts-audio-from-files-entirely-online