WavTrim

n the search for an increasingly higher degree of convenience, hardware manufacturers have been shrinking the size of storage devices to improve their portability, while also augmenting their capacity in the process, leading to impressive products such as 1 terabyte SD cards the size of a thumbnail.

Along the way, one of the most popular mediums to store readily purchasable media is still around in the form of compact discs housing high quality movies and soundtracks for enthusiasts and collectors alike. For the latter type of content, extracting the individual songs may sometimes provide mixed results, leaving tracks with silent portions that hamper the listening experience.

While dedicated programs the likes of Audacity can come in handy to fully cleanse one’s favourite tracks, large batches of CDs may require more automated and portable tools, which is where WavTrim comes into play. Once downloaded, users can select multiple items at once to trim the silence in both start and ending sections of the files.

Older recordings of live events stored exclusively on compact discs can benefit from the app’s normalization feature that smoothens the playback by increasing the volume of more silent bits to bring them to a unified level.