Extract Audio from a Video
Pull the sound out of any video file and save it as MP3 or WAV. The video track is discarded — processed in your browser.
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This extract audio tool pulls the sound out of any video file and saves it as MP3 or WAV — lectures, interviews, meeting recordings, music videos. The video track is discarded; the audio becomes a normal audio file.
The extraction runs in your browser: the video container is opened, the audio track is decoded and re-encoded to your chosen format.
Why Use This Extract Audio from Video Tool?
- MP3 or WAV output, with bitrate control for MP3
- Works with MP4, WebM, MOV and MKV sources
- Private — extracted in your browser, no upload
- Fast — the video is never decoded, only the audio is
- Free, no signup
How to Extract Audio from a Video — 3 Steps
- Drop your video into the box above and wait for the file details to appear.
- Pick the output format — MP3 with a bitrate, or WAV for lossless.
- Press the blue Extract Audio button and download the audio file.
The Sound Is the Part You Wanted
Audio extraction is the most useful of the video-to-audio jobs: a lecture recorded on a camera you only need to listen to on a commute, an interview captured on video for a podcast feed, a meeting recording destined for notes, a music video whose song you want offline, a screen recording whose narration should become a podcast segment. In every case the video track is dead weight — sometimes hundreds of megabytes of it — and the audio alone is a few megabytes.
The extraction is deliberately efficient: the video stream is never decoded (that is the slow, heavy part of video processing), only the audio track is read and re-encoded. That makes the job several times faster than any video conversion and light enough for phones. The source container matters less than the audio inside: MP4, WebM, MOV and MKV files are all read directly, whatever codec their audio uses.
Format choice: MP3 at 192 kbps is the practical default for sharing and listening; WAV is the lossless pick when the audio will be edited or processed further. If the source video had no audio track at all, the tool tells you plainly rather than producing an empty file.
Everything runs in your browser — decode, extract, encode, download. Meeting recordings and interview footage stay on your device.
Frequently Asked Questions
No — the video track is simply discarded. Only the audio is decoded and re-encoded, which makes extraction fast.
The tool checks for an audio track and tells you plainly instead of producing an empty file.
MP3 (192 kbps or higher) for listening and sharing; WAV when the audio will be edited or processed and every bit matters.
MP4, WebM, MOV and MKV are read directly, whatever codec their audio track uses.
The audio is re-encoded once — MP3 at 192 kbps or above is transparent for normal listening; WAV adds no loss.
No — extraction runs entirely in your browser.
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