AC3 Cutter

In these modern times, audio is played at incredible quality. However, these file formats went to some heavy changes throughout the years to make this happen. As such, there is a plethora of audio file formats, and plenty of processing involved. Strictly dedicated to one format in particular, AC3 Cutter gives you the possibility to cut an audio file in smaller chunks.

First of all, you need to consider the name tells the whole tale, so you only get to work with audio files found under the AC3 format. The application is pretty straightforward, but also gets the job done pretty fast, since there aren’t any extra or hidden features to slow down the process.

Once it runs, a compact main window is brought up, with several numerical values you modify later on to set time, a progress slider, and playback controls so you know what piece to extract and how to define it.

Sadly, you can’t just drag the target file over the main window, so you need to rely on the browse dialog to load them. You mostly get to use the progress slider in order to determine time. The good part is that once started, playback loops until you manually stop it.

The whole process revolves around the progress slider, because it’s the only way to extract time. Two control buttons are there to extract time values. Unfortunately, you can’t manually write down time in case you already know what to grab, and need to press start and end during playback.

This can create some frustration, not because you have to go through the whole file, but because of poor implementation of features, which makes the file start over once a button is pressed, and time is not always properly grabbed. When you finally manage to get it right, pressing Save lets you create another AC3 file, but just with the content you want.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that AC3 Cutter is not quite the sharpest tool in the shed. It only lets you process audio files of one format, which isn’t even among the commonly used, while editing and setting time values can prove to be difficult and time consuming. Although pretty straightforward and fast when cutting, it leaves a lot to be desired.