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How to Trim Heads & Tails

To activate the wavEditor simply right mouse on a Hot Button and Click to open the audio file in the editor.
 
Figure 1:  Select Edit Audio File
 
Figure 2:  wavEditor ZOOM Drag Bar to open an audio file waveform.
As in example, Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop
Drag the rear handle to the left until the front of the file is cleary visible.
The audio file has some dead air at the front of the file. Highlight the dead air audio by back dragging the mouse
Figure 3: Note the audio file has dead air - which would result in a delayed play-out when started.
 
Figure 4: Back drag the mouse by Click and Back Drag - check the Highlight by Play Selected to insure
no audio has been marked - Adjust the right side of the Selection until you have the perfect audition of the marked
section. 
Then proceed to CUT the Highlited area by selecting from FILE\Cut 
 
Figure 5:  Cut out the dead air, check your file by PLAY, if all good SAVE & EXIT button
 
For Trimming Tails of the audio file if and only if required, reverse the process by dragging the Bar in Figure 2
Left to Right to ZOOM in on the tail of the audio cut.
 
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