How to remove fragments from a WMA file

By Olga Krovyakova - modified March 1, 2024, created March 26, 2019

SolveigMM Video Splitter allows deleting unnecessary fragments from WMA file without audio quality loss. This guide explains how you can edit WMA file.

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Basic Terms

Understanding of some basic terms used in this guide will help you to start using SolveigMM Video Splitter in most comfortable way.

Marker is a constituent part of a fragment consisted of two markers: start and end. Markers can be added or deleted. Such operations as deleting and positioning are applied to the selected markers only.

	Marker is set to a current cursor position.
	The selected marker is highlighted with blue color.

Markers can be added or deleted. Such operations as deleting and positioning are applied to the selected markers only.

Fragment is a part of video (or audio) file limited by two markers to be removed or kept in a final movie, e.g. commercial block you want to cut off. Selected fragments are marked with orange color. Fragments marked as 'cut off' are colored with white color.
Examples of fragments are provided in table below:

Color of Fragment	Description
	This fragment was set to be deleted. It will not be presented in final movie
	This fragment was set to be kept. It will be presented in final movie
	This fragment was set to be deleted. It will not be presented in final movie. Yellow slider on it means you can edit it (delete, set it to be kept, etc.)
	This fragment was set to be kept. It will be presented in final movie. Yellow slider on it means you can edit it (delete, set it to be cut off, etc.)

Control Panel contains main tools for file processing.

A description of window elements is provided in table below.

Window Element	Description	Shortcut Key
	Button "Add Marker": Adds a new marker to current slider cursor position.	M
	Button "Remove Marker(s)": Removes a current marker or fragment.	Delete
	Button "Invert": Inverts time line fragments.	I
	Button "Set audio silence": Sets the audio silence for the selected fragment.
	Button "Save": Starts trimming or Batch Processing (if batch queue has any task).	Ctrl+T
	Edit box of a left marker cursor time position. You can edit this value by manually.
	Edit box of a right marker cursor time position. You can edit this value by manually.
	Button "Zoom In/Out": Increases/descreases a slider timeline resolution for more comfortable editing neighbor markers (*).	Num+ Num-
	Button "Browse output file(s)": opens folder in the File Explorer with the output file.
	Audio off/on: turns off/on sound of the whole video track Story board or audio wave off/on: turns off/on the story board or audio wave
(*) - To view timeline areas after Zoom In you can use a scroll bar (below a timeline slider) and "Alt + Left arrow" and "Alt + Right Arrow" hot keys.

In our example we will edit initial WMA file by cutting off two fragments in one pass.

1. Select the Open Media File... command in the File menu.

2. Select file to be edited.

3. Click the button to open the selected file.

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4. Find the beginning of the first part of your movie using Video slider.

5. Click the Add marker button. You can also add the marker selecting the Set New Marker command of the contextual menu or using the [M] key. Then add the marker at the end of the fragment. Markers divide movie into several fragments (see Basic Terms). In our example we divide our file into four fragments by adding markers in the required places.

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6. Select the fragment you want to cut off from the movie by clicking your left mouse button.

7. Click the button to set the selected fragment as 'cut off'. You can also select the Cut Off Selected Fragment command of the context menu. The selected fragment will be marked with white color (see Basic Terms).

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8. Select other fragments you want to cut off from the movie. In our example we also marked the last fragment as 'cut off' as described in 7.

9. Click the button to start the file processing.

10. Enter new file name in the appeared Save As window.

11. Click the Save button. You will see the current progress of splitting.

The new saved file will not contain two fragments marked as 'cut off'.

Additional information about features of SolveigMM Video Splitter you can find on the website and in SolveigMM Video Splitter User Guide.

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12. Wait until the editing process will be completed.

13. Browse the output file folder.

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https://www.solveigmm.com/en/howto/how-to-split-mkv-file-with-video-splitter/
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About the author

Olga Krovyakova is the Technical Support Manager in Solveig Multimedia since 2010.

She is the author of many text and video guidelines of company's products: Video Splitter, HyperCam, WMP Trimmer Plugin, AVI Trimmer+ and TriMP4.

She works with programs every day and therefore knows very well how they work. Сontact Olga via support@solveigmm.com if you have any questions. She will gladly assist you!

How to edit WMA file