Extract Audio from Video
Pull the audio track out of a video file.
How to extract audio from video
- Drop a video file in.
- Pick a format. MP3 for universal use, WAV or FLAC for lossless quality.
- Extract and download.
About this tool
Extracting audio from video is one of the most common operations people do with video files, usually to get a soundtrack, a voiceover, or a music track out of a recording. The quality story depends on what you do with the codec chain. A phone video's audio track is typically AAC at 128 or 192 kbps; extracting it to M4A by stream copy preserves that exactly. Extracting it to MP3 re-encodes it, which introduces some additional generation loss on top of what AAC already applied.
WAV and FLAC outputs always decode from the source first, giving you an uncompressed or losslessly compressed file at whatever quality the original audio contained. Those formats are larger but are the right choice when you plan to edit the audio further — subsequent processing on a lossless file does not compound codec artefacts.