Video to audio · Updated 2 October 2026
Extract the audio from a video
and keep the soundtrack on its own.
Extract audio from video files and save the soundtrack as an MP3 or WAV, with the voices, music and room sound just as they were recorded.
Lots of videos hold sound you want somewhere else: a choir rehearsal you’d like on your phone, an interview you’re cutting into a podcast, or a voiceover you recorded with the camera rolling. Pulling the soundtrack out gives you a plain audio file you can listen to and edit without the picture.
Pull the audio out of your video
- Choose the video. Open MP4 to MP3, select Choose a video and pick your MP4, MOV or WebM file. Videos can be up to 20 minutes long.
- Press Play. Listen to the first line or the first few bars so you know you’ve got the right take.
- Pick a format. Select Download MP3 for a smaller file to listen to, or Download WAV if you’re going to edit it.
- Check the download. It keeps your video’s filename with .mp3 or .wav on the end. Play it once in your own player before you move on.
MP3 or WAV? Think about what’s next
Learning your part from a rehearsal video? Save the MP3 and put it in the folder you practise from. Rename it with the song and section, because “IMG_4821.mp3” won’t mean much to anyone else in the group.
Cutting a podcast or laying a voiceover under new footage? Save the WAV and keep it in the same folder as the video project. Make a copy before you start trimming or changing levels, so you always have the untouched version to go back to.
You get the whole soundtrack
This saves the soundtrack exactly as it sits in the video. Voices, music, applause and room noise all stay together in one file. That’s what you want when you need the sound without the picture.
If you only want the voice or only the music, look under the result for Remove the music from this and Remove the vocals from this. Each one opens the matching tool and usually brings your video along, so you don’t have to choose it again.
Trim it down to the part you need
Only need one quote, a verse or a short explanation? Open the download in the audio cutter, set the start and end in seconds and save just that stretch as a WAV. The cutter opens video files too, so you can also go straight there with the original. Either way, keep the full-length audio and the video.
If the audio is going back under the same video later, hang on to the full-length file until the edit is locked. When you save a short excerpt, put its start time in the original into the filename, like “interview-2m14s.wav,” so whoever edits next can line it up.
This one runs right in your browser. Pro adds the AI tools too: vocals, stems, captions and more.