Extract audio from video files

Updated 28 September 2026

To extract audio from a video, drop the file, choose MP3, M4A or WAV, and download the sound on its own. The extraction runs on our servers in Germany.

Many recordings end up as video because a phone camera or a meeting app captured the picture as well. When the goal is listening, transcribing or editing, a separate audio file is much easier to handle and usually far smaller.

How to extract the audio track

1. Drop a video, several videos or a whole folder onto the page.
2. Pick MP3, M4A or WAV as the output format.
3. Start the extraction.
4. Download each audio file, or all of them in one ZIP.

Picking MP3, M4A or WAV

MP3 is the default, and nearly every device and app can play it, from phones and car stereos to podcast apps and editors. At 192 kbps, speech comes through clearly and music sounds good.

M4A carries AAC audio, also at 192 kbps, and it is the format Apple devices and apps favor. At an equal bitrate, AAC has a slight quality edge over MP3.

WAV stores the sound uncompressed, at 16 bits, and ends up about seven times the size of the MP3. It is the right choice for audio headed to an editing program, for transcription services that require WAV, and for any workflow that processes the sound further.

Quality and audio tracks

Almost every video already stores its sound in compressed form, usually AAC. Saving that as MP3 or M4A adds a second lossy step. At 192 kbps, the added loss is inaudible in speech and difficult to detect in music. WAV avoids the second step completely.

If the file carries more than one soundtrack, for example one per language, you get the first. A silent video produces an error message instead of an audio file. The tool accepts AVI, FLV, MKV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, WebM, WMV and 3GP.

A folder of recordings in one run

Course recordings, interviews, a week of meetings: drop the folder, pick a format once and download the results as a single ZIP. With a pipeline, the extraction can be followed by volume normalization, so every file plays at the same loudness.

Extraction counts as a video job. Without an account the free allowance is 3 a day, and a free account raises it to 5. Each file can weigh up to 50 MB. With Pro, the limits become 500 MB per file and 500 files per batch, with no daily allowance. Credits pay for one big job without a subscription: one credit covers 25 files in a batch or pipeline, and credits never expire. Pipelines are free to try on up to 3 files.

Uploads travel over an encrypted connection, and we delete them, together with the audio files, automatically within two hours.