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Just to clarify some points to give the correct advice
If that positive for both, then some form of transcoding is inevitable, and since mp3 is a lossy format, and m4a is normally a lossy format as well, you might encounter some quality loss depending on how high the mp3 bitrate is compared to the m4a. You can select an higher bitrate for the m4a, but you'll never achieve an higher quality than what the mp3 contained. For that situation, a relatively easy and visual software to do so would be Audacity.
If you are able to keep the trimmed song as an mp3, then there are some utilities like mptrim that pick the portion of audio you want without retranscoding, which avoid degrading the signal.
Audacity has telemetry; Tenacity is a fork without it.
Source: I'm just learning this elsewhere in this thread.
https://www.audacityteam.org/desktop-privacy-notice
It only sends the following during the update process, which can be disabled during the software install: Audacity version, OS name and version, country of IP address.
If there is a serious error it will let you generate an error report to help them debug the issue, and will not send anything without the user's consent. Seems reasonable to me.