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!

  1. How to capture, save, record or download streaming audio for free
  2. How to extract audio from AVI, WMV, MPEG, FLV, MOV video files for free
  3. How to rip an audio cd and convert WMA files to MP3 for free
  4. How to recover the volume or sound icon to your Windows taskbar
  5. 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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40 Responses to “How to extract audio from AVI, WMV, MPEG, FLV, MOV video files for free”

  1. Jonathan said on : December 27th, 2007 at 5:12 am

    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


  2. bls said on : January 4th, 2008 at 10:35 pm

    It works perfectly well! Thank you very much! I recommended AoA audio extractor to my friends. Everyone is happy!


  3. massimo said on : January 16th, 2008 at 3:30 am

    http://www.online-tech-tips.co.....r-free/it/

    The Italian translation is simply TERRIBLE
    I hope the original text was better


  4. Ann said on : March 11th, 2008 at 4:17 am

    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 – http://www.melodycan.com


  5. bENd said on : March 24th, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    Dik in orde!!! Kan niet beter uitgelegd worden, THX!!!


  6. Michael said on : April 4th, 2008 at 8:15 am

    I came upon this automatically translated (I presume) site. The dutch translation is terrible. Still I will try the software.


  7. Kumara said on : April 20th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

    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:

    http://www.freevideoworkshop.c.....-for-free/

    Happy extracting!


  8. Brett said on : May 13th, 2008 at 4:13 am

    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.


  9. Earl H. Kinmonth said on : May 17th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    Some but not all panels do not properly display unicode or multibyte file names. The CPU usage appears to be very high.

    EHK


  10. Mari said on : May 18th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    Can you use this program to extract audio from a Powerpoint Presentation?


  11. Mari said on : May 18th, 2008 at 5:53 pm

    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


  12. Sarah Jane said on : May 21st, 2008 at 10:47 am

    I LOVE YOU!!!!
    this is exactly what i wanted for weeks! thanks ;)
    and it works perfectly fine!


  13. Mari said on : May 22nd, 2008 at 7:38 am

    Glad it worked for you Sarah Jane – I’d been searching a long time too then just stumbled on this! :)


  14. Tom said on : June 5th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    i added a flv file, it’s said it “fail to open [...]”
    i added a avi file, and it worked


  15. Mari said on : June 21st, 2008 at 9:59 am

    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. :)


  16. melissa said on : June 22nd, 2008 at 7:09 pm

    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..


  17. nickelwas said on : July 10th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    how do i play ‘flv’ files to my vcd player, without ripping of course, or without having hampering the quality.


  18. rocket9244 said on : July 26th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    works perfect.thank you so much.ive been looking for this exact type of extractor so i can make my own video.


  19. Untouchable_888 said on : September 15th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    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!!!!


  20. Brad said on : October 2nd, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    Excellent program and tutorial…Thank you!
    Brad


  21. Aine said on : November 2nd, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    Thank you!!!!


  22. Stein said on : November 19th, 2008 at 11:50 am

    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


  23. Kumara said on : December 3rd, 2008 at 11:44 pm

    Watch the video tutorial of AOA Audio Extractor at:

    Http://www.freevideoworkshop.com

    This is a pretty easy software to use and the results are good.


  24. Fares said on : December 10th, 2008 at 11:50 am

    PERFECT
    10\10


  25. David Garmaise said on : December 25th, 2008 at 9:26 am

    I tried AOA with a WMV file downloaded from a Windows site, and it wouldn’t open the file.


  26. PETER said on : January 5th, 2009 at 3:58 am

    Waoooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! I can’t belive it! It works really fine! Keep it up for those who developed it.


  27. valtteri immonen said on : January 6th, 2009 at 8:26 am

    it seems that this porgram takes the bass away from every track i try to convert anybody plz help!?


  28. Jurek said on : February 26th, 2009 at 7:33 am

    When I try to open mov file it tells me that it can not open it, it opens others. Any idea why ????


  29. Moogan said on : March 13th, 2009 at 10:50 am

    Great stuff. This is awesome.


  30. Chris said on : March 25th, 2009 at 1:54 am

    It works for FLVs I got from Youtube, but not for other FLVs.


  31. Osvaldo said on : March 27th, 2009 at 5:12 am

    AOA AUDIO EXTRACTOR : I try to add flv file but I have the message Fail to open … what can I do ?
    Thanks


  32. yeahyeahs said on : April 6th, 2009 at 4:55 am

    does aoa work on large files?
    i tried it on an 850mb file but the program stopped working.


  33. Viki said on : April 10th, 2009 at 2:02 am

    Prefer to use Melody Can Video converter http://www.melodycan.com/conve.....i_mp4.html


  34. Me said on : April 13th, 2009 at 11:56 am

    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.


  35. dVizNana said on : July 22nd, 2009 at 10:18 am

    This is what I have been looking for. In one step it extracts an mp3 file at 192kps from flv files.


  36. Sunny said on : July 25th, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    Worked like a charm!!! Thanks so much for the great info!


  37. YuppieScum said on : August 26th, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    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?


  38. Amin said on : September 25th, 2009 at 7:18 am

    Couldn’t open it… It says disable the debugger to run… Got no time for restarting the windows!


  39. Chester said on : October 11th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    Amazingly simple!
    Thank you for the great program tip and finding a free app to do a simple task.


  40. elina said on : November 9th, 2009 at 8:42 pm

    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-.....erter.html


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