How to extract audio from AVI, WMV, MPEG, FLV, MOV video files for free
Posted on September 4, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Make sure to read other posts from the Audio Tutorials series!
- How to capture, save, record or download streaming audio for free
- How to extract audio from AVI, WMV, MPEG, FLV, MOV video files for free
- How to rip an audio cd and convert WMA files to MP3 for free
- How to recover the volume or sound icon to your Windows taskbar
- How to record cassette tapes to PC/Computer
One handy utility that everyone needs nowadays is a software program that can extract audio, sound, or background music from home movies, YouTube videos, or any other video file. In this article, I’m going to give step-by-step instructions on how to use a free program called AoA Audio Extractor. Using this nifty little application, you can extract audio from AVI, MPEG, MPG, FLV, DAT, WMV, MOV, MP4, and 3GP and save them into MP3 format or WAV and AC3 format also!
The program is extremely simply to use with the ability to drag and drop files right onto the interface. AoA Audio Extractor also includes a media player, so you can preview the video files from the program itself, saving you the hassle of making sure it’s the right video by playing it in Windows Media Player, etc. It also allows you to control the audio bit rate, audio sample rate and the channel type (mono or stero) for the output file.
However, one of the nicest features of the program that I really thought was quite useful is the ability to extract audio from only a portion of the video clip, instead of the entire file. This is a very basic editing feature, but it’s really helpful because you don’t have to download any sound editing software if you want only some parts of the audio.
To get started using AoA Audio Extractor, download and install the program. Open the program and click the Add Files button to select the video files. You can add more files if you want and they will be processed in a batch.
The videos will show up in the main window along with basic information such as the Start, End, Source Format, and Output Format. You can change the output format under the Output Options section below the main list. Select a video and click on Movie Clip if you want to extract audio from a specific time segment in the video. Before clicking Start, click on Browse and choose the location for the output MP3 file.
Now, go ahead and click Start and the extraction process will begin. The program is pretty fast, it took only 1 minute to extract audio from a 19 minute video clip.
You should now see your audio file at the location specified! I checked the sound quality between the video and the audio file and they were exactly the same, so you’re not going to lose any quality in the extraction process.
And that’s it! I’m going to be writing another article on how to extract audio from a DVD or VOB file soon, so look for that later! Any questions, post a comment!
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I installed and tried to use the AOA audio extractor bu when I tried to add file (.wmv) it came up with a debugger error.
Any ideas
It works perfectly well! Thank you very much! I recommended AoA audio extractor to my friends. Everyone is happy!
To extract audio from video and convert video file fornats I use MelodyCan.
Description:
* Melodycan is a powerful easy-using audio Converter. It supports decoding audio formats like WAV, AIFF, M4A, OGG, AAC etc and encoding them to MP3 or WMA. It can also extract audio from video file formats such as AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, etc.
* Features:
1. Easier to use – The software has variable settings and properties that can be handled easily. It well serves both the beginners with the default settings and the experienced with the variable settings.
2. It supports batch conversion – The more files you convert the faster it works than other audio converters
3. The user can choose output path – You are able to edit the output path or use the same one as the input path.
4. It offers excellent output conversion quality and you will get any supported output formats with super image and great sound quality
5. Support Windows Vista
Free trial – melodycan.com
Dik in orde!!! Kan niet beter uitgelegd worden, THX!!!
I came upon this automatically translated (I presume) site. The dutch translation is terrible. Still I will try the software.
AOA Audio Extractor is a versatile audio extraction tool that’s quick and easy to use.
I have a video tutorial of the program at:
freevideoworkshop.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/20/how-to-extract-audio-from-a-video-clip-for-free/
Happy extracting!
Note I had a bunch of .mov files without video, but AOA Audio Extractor seems to crash on those kinds of files after giving a dialog box message that there appears to be no video in the file.
Some but not all panels do not properly display unicode or multibyte file names. The CPU usage appears to be very high.
EHK
Can you use this program to extract audio from a Powerpoint Presentation?
Hmm, I can answer my own question so will post in case anyone else wants to know this
You CAN extract an audio file from a PP presentation.
Create a new folder (on your desktop or where ever) Open the existing presentation in Powerpoint then click Save As -> Web Page
Saving the presentation as an html page will generated the page and a folder. You will find all the presentation’s elements in thefolder,including audio file.
Mari
I LOVE YOU!!!!
this is exactly what i wanted for weeks! thanks
and it works perfectly fine!
Glad it worked for you Sarah Jane – I’d been searching a long time too then just stumbled on this!
i added a flv file, it’s said it “fail to open [...]”
i added a avi file, and it worked
Powerpoint doesn’t support FLV files so if that’s the format your video is in you would need to convert it with conversion software to a format PP reconizes.
i used it to extract sound from my AVI file.. and the results sounded like there were aliens attacking in addition to the regular sound. anyone else get similar problems with sound quality being bad?? not really a warped sound, just the addition of funny noises that weren’t there in the video..
how do i play ‘flv’ files to my vcd player, without ripping of course, or without having hampering the quality.
works perfect.thank you so much.ive been looking for this exact type of extractor so i can make my own video.
I could not get mine to extract audio from .mov files. It said that there was not movie file detected. HELP!!! Please let me know if anyone has an answer to this, untouchable_888@hotmail.com is my email. HELP!!!!
Excellent program and tutorial…Thank you!
Brad
Thank you!!!!
I tried to install this, and it all went fine. However, when I tried to run it I got an application failed report and a windows error report window. Tried to uninstall and install again but it wouldn’t work. :S
Watch the video tutorial of AOA Audio Extractor at:
freevideoworkshop.com
This is a pretty easy software to use and the results are good.
PERFECT
10\10
I tried AOA with a WMV file downloaded from a Windows site, and it wouldn’t open the file.
Waoooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! I can’t belive it! It works really fine! Keep it up for those who developed it.
it seems that this porgram takes the bass away from every track i try to convert anybody plz help!?
When I try to open mov file it tells me that it can not open it, it opens others. Any idea why ????
Great stuff. This is awesome.
It works for FLVs I got from Youtube, but not for other FLVs.
AOA AUDIO EXTRACTOR : I try to add flv file but I have the message Fail to open … what can I do ?
Thanks
does aoa work on large files?
i tried it on an 850mb file but the program stopped working.
Prefer to use Melody Can Video converter melodycan.com/convert_video_to_avi_mp4.html
The AoA extractor fails. I tried extracting audio from my mpg files and it says the clip is only 1 second long. The movie is over 2 hours.
just installed this and it works great so far. it extracts audio from files that other programs that I actually purchased could not.. wish I would have found this sooner.
This is what I have been looking for. In one step it extracts an mp3 file at 192kps from flv files.
Worked like a charm!!! Thanks so much for the great info!
This tool does not *extract* the original audio stream from the file – what it does is create a new audio file of a user-selected type from the audio stream.
Can anyone recommend a tool that will do a proper *extraction* – that is, create a file that contains the original unchanged/uncompressed/unconverted audio in the format the original audio stream was in?
Couldn’t open it… It says disable the debugger to run… Got no time for restarting the windows!
Amazingly simple!
Thank you for the great program tip and finding a free app to do a simple task.
here i know an Audio Converter
it can extract audio from video files including MPG, MPEG, MPEG2, MP4, M4V, RM, RMVB, WMV, ASF, MKV, MPV, AVI, 3GP, 3G2, FLV, MPV, MOD, TOD and convert one video format to any other audio format, such as converting MP4 to MP3, converting FLV to WMA, converting MKV to AAC, etc.
http://www.useesoft.com/video-converters/audio-converter.html
This has worked great for me, never a problem … until now. I have one YT download that, when I go to extract, it initializes then crashes with a windows “AoA has encountered a problem and needs to close”. I’ve tried this as a single (crashes), #1 in a list (crashes) and in other positions in a list (everything works fine until it gets to this one file and then … it crashes).
lil help maybe?
Help.
I have a Karaoke recording studio tape deck. I taped a song I wrote and then at a later time, my grandaughter taped on top of the first half of it. It took me 5 years to write the lyrics, Please, how can i separate the two. I can use my mic and retape the sounds into my computer, but what program do I need to separate the two different sounds that recorded on top of one another?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
BiggLL
Hi,
I was trying AoA to extract audio from video files recorded from still camera(avi files). But, It’s creating empty(0 bytes)audio files. Is this a limitation of the software? Please suggest me any other software which serve my purpose.
Thanks!
Thanks a ton mate – worked beautifully.
I wanted to extract an audio track from a .mov file.
I usually use AUDACITY – but sadly it failed me this time.
First I tried recording it directly into AUDACITY – quality was terrible lots of bass – which wasnt there in the file.
Next I tried importing the same into AUDACITY – the quality was utter gibberish – pitch and tempo were way of track.
Then I found you and your link to: AoA Audio Extractor FREE
Thanks once again mate – you saved the day.
I’m having the same problem as Kiran – the conversion seems to happen instantly (no counting down) but creates nothing, just empty files. Anyone?
Hey all,
I’m having the same problem as Jess and Kiran. Anyone have any clue? Also it’s saying something about a User ID and Registration code, but when i click to get these, it goes to a completly different web page so i can’t get them!! please help!
Thanks for the instructions!
I was just watching an episode of Family Guy when I heard an interesting song on the soundtrack. I looked up the episode on IMDB but found no soundtrack information at all. I then figured I could just play and record it right on the computer.
I played back the episode using VLC Media player 1.0.3 and I chose to record the sound using Sound Recorder that’s included with Vista.
I got to tell you, Windows Vista is a real mess when it comes to sound recording and configuration because it’s using so many different interfaces to set sound settings.
Despite this, I have checked the sound card settings and the Sound settings in Vista twice, and I made sure that the Stereo Mix was chosen as recording device in Vista. Then I finally hit Record button in Sound Recorder and Play butotn in VLC. The problem was I didn’t pick up any sounds on the resulting recording. I checked the settings once again and found nothing wrong. I tried different settings and I tried choosing Wave instead of Stereo Mix as recording device in Vista but it made no difference. I checked the recording levels in both the sound card driver software and under the Levels tab in Properties for Stereo Mix in Vista and they were all set to maximum 100 %.
After some time of struggle I finally got some signals going, and after downloading and installing Audacity 1.2.6 and LAME MP3 encoder and I could finally record this peace of soundtrack sound I was interested in and export it as MP3 file. The only problem remaining was that the sound level was terribly low. The level was so low that it got me thinking that there might be something wrong with my newly purchased premium sound card – Asus Xonar Essence STX. I might drop Asus a question about this. So I had to normalize the sound level using Audacity. After normalization the sound level was OK (-3 dB at its peak compared to about -25 dB before) but the amplification caused noise.
By this time I started focusing on finding a special software for extracting the audio from the video file as it is, without having to record it. One example of such software that I know of is called FLV Extract found at moitah.net. However, FLV Extract, as the name implies, only extracts audio from FLV files. Otherwise it’s a great tiny little software, which doesn’t even require installation and requires less than 1 MB of disk space. But for my task I needed one that supports AVI files.
I tried to just drag and drop the Family Guy episode AVI file to Audacity but it couldn’t import the sound from it. Actually Audacity did nothing when I dropped the file, as if nothing happened, not even an error showed up telling me that it couldn’t be done, nothing. So I installed my old good friend WaveLab 5.0 and dropped the file onto its interface and a new sound window showed up but without any audio data, it just said [decoded] at the end of the window title.
I made a search for “extract audio from video” using Google and the first link in the result was pointing to a software called Free Audio Extractor at aoamedia.com/audioextractor.htm. I figured, this should be the perfect software for the task, and so it was. While downloading it I stumbled upon this blog with instructions on how to extract audio from AVI video files using exactly the same software I was downloading and planing to use. How cool is that?! When the download was finish I now already knew how to use this new software thanks to you. Thank you!
This seem to be a very interesting blog. It covers a great part of my computer interests. I will check back again later to see what you’re writing about. Keep up the good work!
Those of you who are experiencing problems extracting audio from FLV (Flash) video files might try using FLV Extract from moitah.net. Good luck!
Hello, I want free software that will let me convert audio songs to mp3 format. Please help!
Well, you say you’re got a free converter, so I download it, install it, initiate it & it tells me I’ve got to come back online and buy it before I can use it. That’s what I’d call bait & switch. I’m just lucky I know how to remove software. If you truly do have a free version, I’d like a copy.
Hi Big Al, I think you probably downloaded the wrong version. AOA have a number of versions you can purchase and a free downloadable version. Visit http://www.aoamedia.com/audioextractor.htm and select download from the right-hand side.
Like Jess, Dave and Kiran the AOA extractor produces only a file name with a 0 byte file. I’m trying to convert .mov to .mp3. Can anyone help us?
This worked perfectly and executed extremely fast. Thank you. Big Al, I am not sure what happened with your download, but I was able to download the free version. Even though it does say it only supports 3 output file versions, I was able extract the audio from a .MOV to a .WAV file.
Trace, the .mp3 was available to choose from on the free version if you are trying to extract the audio from the .MOV.
Like Jess, Dave and Kiran the AOA extractor produces only a file name with a 0 byte file. I’m trying to convert .mov to .mp3. Can anyone help us?
What a rip-off! The so-called AoA Audio Extractor Free is the same file as the AoA Audio Extractor Platinum Edition Free Trial version, with limited capabilities, 50% or 3 min. I could not even get 3 min transfer out of it. It is not a separate stand-alone program. Very misleading advertising.
does it cost anything?
Okay, so it works perfectly fine. But is there a way to improve the sound quality? Also, it is only copying half of what I want it too copy. What do I do?
Shame there’s no OS X compatible version!
It works well but truncates the music time. I tried to use the slider to get the full length of the music but it cuts the time into half. I have failed to correct the problem.
Try the Pazera Free Audio Extractor. Under Output Settings, select the “Try extract original audio stream” option.
thanks so much!! it’s a very easy straightforward app to use.
wanted to get audio from 1:27:00 into the movie, took about 2 minutes to start the extraction, i thought it was not responding, but it did start!
I am another one who got 0 byte files when inputting an AVI file taken by a digital camera. MelodyCan is rather deceptive on the free trial – it will do three minutes for free, then you have to buy the program. I would think that a reasonable free trial would be one file of some reasonable length.