Extract the audio from a video
Drop a video file, choose between MP3 and the lossless original track (.m4a), download. The video is read in your browser and its audio track written out right there — nothing is uploaded, which is also why there is no server-side size limit. MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV are supported.
Lossless copy or MP3 — which is better?
Copying losslessly takes the existing audio track out of the video unchanged and puts it into an M4A container. Nothing is recalculated: no quality loss, and the job is many times faster because the data is only repackaged instead of re-encoded. MP3 re-encodes the track — a second lossy compression, but the result plays on practically any device, including an old car stereo.
When is the lossless copy not possible?
Only when the codec cannot live inside an MP4/M4A container. AAC, MP3, Opus, FLAC and AC-3 fit — which covers virtually every video from a phone or camera, as those almost always use AAC. Vorbis (in older WebM files) does not fit; in that case the tool re-encodes and tells you so in the result, instead of claiming a lossless outcome.
Can I download YouTube videos with this?
No, and that is a deliberate decision. This tool only processes video files that are already on your device — your own recordings, footage you made yourself, or material you hold the rights to. Downloads from streaming platforms generally violate their terms of use and, depending on the source, copyright, so we do not offer them.
Honest limits
- Audio only. The video track is discarded — that is the point, but there is no way back into the same video.
- Up to 3 hours. The process streams and therefore needs little memory, but very long recordings take correspondingly longer.
- Subtitles and multiple audio tracks: the primary audio track is used. A video with several language versions gives you the main track, not all of them.
- Metadata such as titles or chapter markers is not reliably carried over into the output file.