An excellent piece of software for editing mp3 recordings of a band rehearsal, a gig, or whatever live situation that you will want to edit. A lot of mp3 recorders such as the Zoom H2 is able to save the recording in mp3 format. mp3DirectCut is able to edit the mp3 file directly without the need of decoding or encoding.
Here is how it works for a recording of a band rehearsal:
1. open the mp3 file
2. remove unwanted pauses from the file by setting a beginning and an ending to an area to be deleted. Scroll the yellow dashed line to the beginning of the part to be deleted and press the "Set begin" button. Scroll the yellow dashed line to the end of the region to be deleted and press the "set end" button. Hit the delete button to remove the selected area. Repeat this for all parts that you want to delete. Note: At this point the software will not physically delete anything, the parts only appear as deleted.
3. Scroll all the way to the beginning. Set a que flag by pressing CTRL+Q. Press "Go to next edit range button" and set the que flag. Repeat for all ranges.
4. Select save split and define a folder. mp3direct cut will now save all the parts defined with cue flags into separate mp3 files.
To equalize the audio levels of all the mp3 files select batch processing select normalize and overwrite originals.

