Audio Splitter Comparisons

Every comparison here was made by running the same job in each tool: a one-hour MP3 interview split into ten-minute parts, plus a short cut and a pause-removal pass where the tool offers them. We look at four things. Whether the file has to be uploaded, and to whom. Whether the output is re-encoded, which costs quality on MP3. What the tool can do beyond equal parts, such as splitting at silences, cutting a range or shortening pauses. And what it costs, including limits on the free tier. ChunkAudio is our own tool, so we say where the others are better: Audacity for editing, ffmpeg for scripting, and several online services for formats the browser cannot decode. The guides in the blog go deeper on individual jobs.