Extract Audio from Video File

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You just downloaded a video clip from YouTube and only need its audio for music mixing. There’s a simple way to cut out the whole audio or a portion of it and export new audio into various audio file format like MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, etc.

With the assistant of the free AV Audio Editor – a handy and fully functional audio editing program, you can input any video file and export the audio part out of it.

AV Audio Editor supports a long list of audio/video file format:

Input Video File Formats: 3GP; AVI; MP4; FLV; MKV; etc.
Output Audio File Formats: MP3; WMA; WAV; FLAC; APE; MP4; MPC; OGG; RAW; SPX; TTA; WV; etc.

» Download Free AV Audio Editor here; or

» Download Media Player Morpher for the complete audio and video tool selections.

Click on the steps below to start

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Step 1: Open your video file in AV Audio Editor

- Double click on a AV Audio Editor shortcut; or

AV Audio Editor

- Launch Media Player Morpher » On the main menu, select Tools » Audio tools » AV Audio Editor to open the tool.

Launch Audio Editor

- When AV Audio Editor open, choose File menu (1) » Open File...(2)

Open File

- Then locate to your video file's directory, select it (3) and click Open (4)

Locate video file

- Wait for the file to be fully loaded into AV Audio Editor. It may take longer if the file size is large.

Video File Sucessfully Imported

Step 2: Export the whole audio

- On the icon bar, click Save as (5) to save your file as a new audio file » Choose the file destination folder (6) » Input File name (7) and select your favorite audio format type at Save as type (8). Click Save when done.

Output Settings

- Then the Encoding Settings window will appear for further settings. If you have no idea what to choose, just leave it as recommended and click Save (9).

Encoding Settings