SolveigMM WMP Trimmer Plugin Home Edition

Music and video files allow us to build hours on end of multimedia entertainment. Various players and editors let you chop down bits of sound or movies to use in other projects. SolveigMM WMP Trimmer Plugin Home Edition on the other hand, attaches itself to Windows Media Player so you can split songs and videos into multiple parts on the fly.

It's main advantage is that the host application is commonly used to play multimedia files. As such, you can easily access your playlists, with the application's features lying silently in the bottom of the window, tracking your every move and waiting for your commands.

The overall design is clean and polished, with nothing more to be desired in this regard. Much like a professional video editor, the application displays a timeline view of the currently playing item, for both the sound and video counterparts.

A zoom utility is included for more precision, with the possibility to extract info even at a millisecond level of detail. A field displays the current playback time, while two more fields give you the possibility to manually write down when trimming starts and ends.

Another advantage is that you can slice a multimedia file in as many bits as you need. This is easily done by placing markers across the timeline and choose which sections to keep and which to discard. Hitting the “Trim” button triggers the whole process, which only takes a little of your time.

Additional tools include toggling visibility for either of the two media components, mute sound, export only as sound, which depends on the original encoder, and a few more. To further make it better blend with the media player, you can switch to a compact display, which cleverly arranges available buttons, functions and timeline view to provide more viewing space.

On an ending note, SolveigMM WMP Trimmer Plugin Home Edition manages to fully live up to expectations, providing exactly what it suggests, a trimming tool available as your songs or videos are playing. It would have been useful to see other export options than the original file settings, but if you're a video editing enthusiasts and are using Windows Media Player, this tool is a must.