1. Get MP3 Direct Cut . It's not very good looking, and sometimes a bit frustrating to work with, but it *does* do lossless simple MP3 editing. 2. Demux the MP3 audio, for instance with VirtualDubMod: Streams > Stream List > (select audio track) > Save WAV. Actually, the MP3 doesn't get saved as a WAV but as the original un-reencoded MP3, so just name the file "audio0.mp3" or anything like that. (Ignore the file header error message.) 3. Run MP3 Direct Cut and load the file. You can probably see the "garbage" rightaway. :D 4. Select the garbage part with your mouse, click Edit > Gain > Silence > OK. 5. Click Rew and Play to see if the garbage part is silenced correctly. If not, click Edit > Undo and go back to step 4. 6. Click File > Save all, and name the new file "audio1.mp3" or something like that. 7. Go back to VirtualDubMod, Streams > Stream List, select the audio track, click Disable, click Add, add the edited MP3 and click OK. Ignore the "file header" error message again. 8. Go to File > Save As, choose Direct Stream Copy in the pulldown menu (otherwise the whole video part will be reencoded), give your new video a file name and click Save. 9. That's it! :D 10. If the audio is out of sync, it's possible that the original audio had a fixed delay.This can be checked and restored with Yet Another AVI Info (available ). Looks like a lot of work, but if you've done it a few times, you can easliy manage all this in 5 minutes or so. You can also use AviDemux (which I use a lot for video editing) for demuxing/remuxing of the audio, but if the MP3 file has audio with sharp, high-amplitude sounds (drum beats, gunshots, etc), these sounds sometimes get muffled when I use AviDemux for remuxing... no idea why.