Extract Audio From Videos

Martin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:50:09 +0000

Extracting audio from videos can be interesting for computer users in several occasions. Be it extracting music from videos to be able to listen it in a music player or mp3 player or extracting audio from television interviews or movies to do the same. Quite a few free software programs are available that can extract audio from videos including the excellent Audacity but also Mediacoder or FLV Extract.

One of the most comfortable computer programs to extract audio from video files is X2X Free Audio Converter. It is possible to load multiple videos into the application and convert them in a batch process. Videos can be loaded from the build in file browser.

Many major video formats are supported by the audio extractor including avi, wmv, mov, mp4 or flv. The audio that gets extracted can be converted into various audio formats including mp3, ogg,wav, aac or wma.

The quality of the audio files can also be configured by the user from economy quality which uses a 64 Kbit to high quality encodings with 256 Kbit. A few advanced options are available that include trimming the video to extract only the audio from a specific part of it. The time it takes to extract the audio from the videos depends on the length and format of the videos.

X2X Free Audio Converter is definitely a pretty basic software program that does exactly what the user expects of it.

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Grab the latest music from Youtube

Martin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:43:14 +0000

Once a music video is released it makes it way pretty fast on Youtube where everybody can watch it. This is actually a really nice way to grab the latest music because it is very easy to rip the music from the Youtube video, almost to easy. It depends if the video is still at Youtube or already on your hard drive. The method is faster if the music videos are already on your hard drive, if they are not you have the option to download them first or use a script to extract the music online.

I’m using the excellent cover of Lil Red Riding Hood by The Brooke to explain how this is done. If you do not want to download the video you can use the online converter at Vixy.net to rip the music from the file. Just copy the url of the Youtube movie and paste it into the url field of the Vixy website. Now select MP3 (audio only) from the pulldown menu and click Start.

Ripping the music from the url takes much longer than using a program that is installed on your computer. The video or videos have to be on your hard drive as well. You can use a program like FLV Extract to extract the audio from flv files, the files that all Youtube videos are saved in.

You can use a Firefox extension like Download Helper for instance to download the videos in first place. When you start FLV Extract uncheck Video and Timecodes so that only the Audio option is enabled. Now drag and drop files whose music you want to have into the program window. It takes only a few seconds to rip the music from the video.

Finding music videos on Youtube should not be a problem. Either search for the song, album or artist and you should find plenty of music videos that you can download or rip online. Pretty effective way to increase the music collection.

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