MP4 to MP3
Keep the sound, drop the picture, and never send the video anywhere
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- 1
Drop the video in
MP4, MOV, WebM, up to 500 MB. It is read by the page and never sent anywhere.
- 2
Pick a bitrate
128 for speech, 192 for most things, 320 if the source deserves it. The output size is shown before you start.
- 3
Convert and download
You get an MP3 named after the video. The picture is discarded and never touched again.
FAQ
- How do I extract audio from a video?
- Drop the video in and pick a format. The audio track is decoded and written out on its own, and the picture is discarded. It is the same operation whether the file is an MP4, a MOV or a WebM.
- Is my video uploaded?
- No. It is opened in your browser, the audio track is decoded, and the MP3 is built there. Nothing carries the video or the audio off your machine.
- Does it work with files other than MP4?
- Yes. MOV, WebM and anything else the browser can play will work, because the same decoder handles all of them. The name of the page is the phrase people search for, not a restriction.
- Will the audio quality drop?
- The audio inside a video is already compressed, and MP3 is a second lossy encode, so a little is lost. At 192 kbps or above the difference is not audible on a soundtrack that started life inside a video.
- How long does it take?
- Decoding is fast. Encoding runs on your own processor, so a short clip is a few seconds and a long recording takes proportionally longer. The progress figure is the real one.
- Can I get WAV instead?
- Yes, WAV is one of the two output formats. It is uncompressed, so it is much larger and loses nothing further.