Extract Audio from Video
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- Upload your video file
- Pick an audio format and quality
- Download the extracted audio
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Every video carries a separate audio track, and this pulls that track out on its own. Upload the clip, choose a format — MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC or OGG — pick a quality, and you get back the sound with the picture discarded. It is how you turn a video into an MP3, save a lecture you recorded on a phone, or take the music from a video so you can listen to it without watching. No sign-up and no watermarks.
How to Save Audio from a Video
- Click the upload area above or drag and drop your video (up to 50 MB).
- Choose the output format (MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC or OGG) and quality.
- Extract and download your audio file.
Key Features
- Five formats – MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC and OGG
- Three quality levels – for MP3 that is roughly 65, 130 and 190 kbps
- Audio only – the picture is discarded entirely, leaving a clean sound file
- Up to 50 MB – and the audio that comes out is a small fraction of that
- Works with any common video – MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI, WMV, FLV and more
The Five Output Formats
- MP3 – the safe default. Plays on everything, and at the high setting nobody will hear the difference.
- WAV – uncompressed. Nothing further is thrown away, but the files are large. The right pick if the audio is going into an editor.
- FLAC – also lossless, at roughly half the size of WAV. Choose it to archive the sound properly.
- AAC – more efficient than MP3 at the same bitrate, and native to the Apple ecosystem.
- OGG – open format with very good compression, common in games and on the web.
When You Might Need This
- Taking the music from a video so you can listen to it on a phone
- Saving a lecture, sermon or talk you recorded on video as audio you can replay
- Keeping the audio of an interview and dropping the picture, which is most of the file size
- Getting a podcast's sound out of its video recording
- Grabbing a sound effect, jingle or voice clip to use elsewhere
- Turning a recorded meeting into audio ready for transcription
- Pulling the voiceover out of a video you want to reuse
- Making a file small enough to send by stripping the video away
Frequently Asked Questions
Upload the video, leave the format on MP3, choose a quality, and download. The picture is discarded and you are left with just the sound. The resulting file is usually a small fraction of the video's size, since video is almost always the bulk of it — which is also why this is a good way to make a recording small enough to send.
The same way: extract the audio and you get whatever the video's soundtrack contains. Worth being precise about what that means, though — you get the whole track. If the video has music with someone talking over it, you will get both together. Separating the two is a different and much harder problem than extraction, and nothing here can do it.
Because they do not apply. WAV is uncompressed and FLAC is lossless, so neither has a quality setting to make — both keep the audio exactly as it came out of the video, and the only difference between them is file size. The quality choice reappears as soon as you select MP3, AAC or OGG, which are the formats where a trade-off actually exists.
No. Extraction takes the audio track as a whole; it has no way to pull apart two sounds that were mixed together before you got the file. If the background is noise rather than music — hiss, traffic, a fan — then Remove Audio Noise can help once you have the file. Music and speech sharing the same track is beyond what any filter here can separate.
MP3 is the most universal and makes small files. WAV and FLAC are lossless (larger). AAC and OGG are efficient modern options. If in doubt, pick MP3.
Two things set the ceiling. First, the audio can only be as good as the soundtrack already inside the video — extracting cannot add detail that was never recorded. Second, the sound is decoded and encoded again on the way out, so choosing MP3, AAC or OGG adds one generation of compression on top of whatever the video already applied. At the high setting that is inaudible on normal listening. If you want to avoid it entirely, pick WAV or FLAC, which store the decoded audio exactly as it came out of the video.
Yes — once you have the audio file you can trim it, adjust its volume, or convert it to another format with our audio tools.
Related Tools
- Mute Video – remove the audio and keep the video
- Trim Video – cut the clip before extracting
- Convert Audio – change the extracted audio's format
- Compress Audio – shrink the audio file