How To Merge Multiple Audio Files Into One

Plus a very important tip for DJs

When you merge audio files, you’re combining them so multiple files will exist as a single audio file. There are both online audio joining sites and offline audio merging software programs you can use.

You might want to merge two or more songs if you’re making a playlist and you want them to play one after the other without any pauses. This is common with some YouTube albums where the creator will upload all the songs merged into one video.

Another reason to merge sound files is if you’ve recorded voice memos or a voiceover, but there are lots ofummsand other unnecessary parts. You can delete those sections and then merge the other clips together to make a continuous file.

Detailed below are several ways to merge MP3s and other audio files. You can pick whichever method you think would work best for your situation.

Tip: If your audio files need to be in a different format to work with any of these websites or programs below, or if you want the exported file to exist in some other audio file format, there arefree ways to convert your audio to a different format.

How To Merge Audio Files Online

Audio Joineris a website dedicated to merging audio files online. This means you don’t have to download anything to make it work. Just upload the tracks you want combined and then download the single file when you’re done.

Here are some of its notable features:

Clideo’s Audio Joineris a lot like the other online song joiner above, but this one has a few extra features you might prefer. Plus, the way the site is designed makes it feel easier to just throw up a few songs and merge them without doing any editing, which might be what you’re after.

If these two options aren’t what you’re looking for in an online MP3 merger, tryAudio EditororOfoct.

Clip & Merge Audio With Audacity

If a simple upload-and-merge isn’t what you’re after because you need to edit the songs or recordings before merging them,Audacityis what you want. It lets youremove background noise, add effects to the songs, and easily join multiple files together to make a long recording/song.

Here’s a quick rundown on how to use Audacity to clip and merge audio files:

Tip: Be sure to check out our piece onhow to cut, edit, and remix music and songs onlinefor more audio editing tips.

Use The Windows Command Prompt To Merge Files

This shouldn’t be your first option unless you like messing around with Command Prompt, but it’s still neat that you can do this without downloading any programs or opening a song joiner website.

One downside to this method for merging files is that you have to type each song name into Command Prompt, or at least rename your songs to make them easier to type.

Enter this command, where every file name corresponds to the files you’re dealing with:

Notice that we’re merging four songs in our example. The very last part, calledfinalmerge.mp3, is the name we’ve chosen as the new file. All the other instances are the names of the files we’re merging.

Tips On Merging Audio Files

If you need to use the audio from a video, you canextract the sound from itpretty easily. Just make sure you aren’t violating any copyrights doing so.

Most songs have a little bit of silence at the very end. If you want your merged songs to play seamlessly, remove those gaps in Audacity or the other audio editors mentioned above. Just play the song over as many times as you need to so that you know for sure that before you export the audio, there aren’t any unwanted silent spaces.

On that note, if youwantareas of silence between your songs but they don’t already exist, Audacity is a great way to make those. Use theGenerate>Silencemenu item anywhere within the recording to add empty spaces of any length you choose.

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