How to Extract Audio from Video for Free: 3 Best Ways (Online, iPhone, Mac)

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Last Updated: 2023. 01. 18

Extracting audio from video offers you a perfect way to repurpose your video content for a podcast on different social media.

Or very often, you may want to extract parts of audio like a celebrity’s voiceovers, an ambience sound, or a soothing tune from a video and put it into your new video project to create the vibes and emotions needed.

So, in this tutorial, we will walk you through 3 easy ways to extract audio from video online, on your iPhone and Mac.

Here is what you will learn:

How to Extract Audio from Video Online Free

How to Extract Audio from Video on iPhone

How to Extract Audio from Video Mac

Also, read how to automatically transcribe podcasts to text.

How to Extract Audio from Video Online Free

If you need to extract audio from your podcast videos, YouTube videos, webinars, Zoom recordings, or use any ambient sounds, and voiceovers and repurpose them for your blogs, newsletters, or other purposes, then a perfect solution is using FlexClip audio extractor to extract audio from video online for free.

Easily extract audio from video online free by FlexClip.

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With FlexClip, you can extract audio from MP4, MKV, MOV, WebM, WMV, AVI, FLV, etc, with the click of a button and save the extracted audio as an MP3 or WAV file. Or directly import the extracted audio to FlexClip online video maker for audio mixing, and video edits. What a great timesaver!

Besides, as the icing on the cake, FlexClip also offers you tons of designer-made and fully customizable video templates for edits. You can drag and drop to replace premade video elements and royalty-free music, sound effects, and other video assets to create a compelling video in a breeze.

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Music Radio Podcast Audio Trailer

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Movie Talk Show Podcast

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Funny Podcast Collage Intro

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Purple Lyrics Template

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How to Extract Audio from Video Online Free by FlexClip:

Step 1

Access the FlexClip audio extractor and drag and drop your video to FlexClip.

Drag and drop your video to FlexClip.

Step 2

Select the audio format (MP3 or WAV) for the extracted audio and click the “Start” button. Then FlexClip shall automatically extract the audio from the video for you.

Select the audio format and extract audio from the video online free by FlexClip.

Step 3

You can hit the play button to preview the extracted audio and click the Download button to directly save the extracted audio to your PC.

Preview the extracted audio or directly download the audio or use it for the video project.

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Alternatively, if you need to add the extracted audio for other footage and video projects, click the “Use Audio” button. It will import the audio to FlexClip online video maker. Then you can set the video duration, and add other footage, text animations, royalty-free music, sound effects, etc. to create an engaging video on the intuitive timeline.

Use extracted audio to make a great video online by FlexClip.

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Finally, you can download the edited video to your PC or directly share it to YouTube, Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox, or TikTok; a clickable link and an embed code will also be available for your blogs, newsletters, or other repurposing.

Easily share and repurpose your videos through FlexClip.

How to Extract Audio from Video on iPhone

If you want to extract audio from existing videos on your iPhone and add it to your new video project, then a feature-packed and free app you can use is CapCut. It’s available to both IOS and Android users and can help you extract audio from video with the click of a button.

Extract audio from video on iPhone using CapCut.

Step 1

Open CapCut on your iPhone > tap New Project > import your footage to the timeline.

Create a new project and import your video to CapCut.

Step 2

Tap Add Audio > Extracted > select the video you want to extract audio from > tap Import Sound Only. Then CapCut will automatically extract audio from the video and add the audio to the audio track in split seconds. You can adjust the volume, trim, split the audio track or add fade in/out effects. Or mute the original video, etc.

Extract audio from the video in CapCut.

Step 3

Select the video quality and tap the export button to save the video to your iPhone.

One thing to remind you is that CapCut can only extract audio from video and export the video project as an MP4 file. It can’t export the extracted audio as an independent audio file.

How to Extract Audio from Video Mac

As one of the free, lightweight, and legendary media players for both Mac and Windows, the VLC media player still performs decently as a reliable audio extractor to extract audio from an MP4 video for free.

How to extract audio from MP4 video on Mac by VLC.

Step 1

Launch VLC on your Mac > click Media > scroll down to select Convert/Save > click +Add to select the video you want to extract audio from > click Open.

Step 2

Click Convert/Save > in the Profile tab and click the drop-down menu to select Audio-MP3 and click Browse.

Step 3

Name your audio file and manually change .MP4 to MP3. > tap Save > Start. Then VLC shall extract audio from the MP4 video and save it to the designated path.

Well, the only drawback with VLC is that you can’t easily trim video before extracting portions of audio from the video. While the entire process remains too complex.

Now, It's Your Move

So, which free audio extractor works best for you? Share this post on your Facebook or Twitter and leave your reviews and tag us. Hopefully, you can create viral video content with our tutorials. Cheers!

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Frank /

Passionate about photography, video-making and travel, Frank is a seasoned copywriter and a beloved father of 2-year-old daughter at FlexClip. He is always keen to share his latest discovery about video marketing and tricks to relive your memories through videos and images.