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Small Things Sorted

Extract sound from a video

The audio track as its own file - without loss where possible.

Stays on your device – The video is processed in your browser. It is not uploaded.

The first click loads about 10 MB of processing module. Where possible the sound is lifted out unchanged - that takes seconds.

Drop your files here

or

You can also paste with Ctrl+V.

Without the tick it is copied: fast, but the cut lands on the nearest keyframe and can be several seconds out. With the tick it is re-encoded: exact, but many times slower and the picture is recalculated.

What you type is processed in your browser and never sent to us.

How to do it

  1. Pick your video

    Drop the file in or choose it.

  2. Choose the format

    Without the tick the original without loss, with it MP3.

  3. Go and download

    The result stays for 24 hours in the list under the tool.

What this is for

A recording of a talk, an interview, the music from a clip: sometimes only the sound is wanted and the pictures are ballast.

Where it can be, the audio track is lifted out unchanged. Without re-encoding means without loss of quality and in seconds. What comes out follows what is in the video - usually an M4A file with AAC sound, or an Opus file for WebM.

If you would rather have MP3, tick the box. Then it is re-encoded: playable everywhere, slower, and it costs a little quality, because an already compressed track is compressed a second time.

The first click loads about 10 megabytes of processing module.

Common questions

No. The processing runs in your browser.

Without the tick, whatever is in the video: for MP4 usually an M4A file with AAC sound, for WebM an Opus file. Every current device plays both. With the tick you get MP3 - that really does run everywhere, including on old equipment.

Because it costs quality nobody gets back. The sound in the video is already compressed; converting to MP3 compresses it a second time. Without re-encoding the track is bit for bit the one from the video.

Then nothing comes out and the tool says so. Offering an empty file would be the worse answer.

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