If you like movies and TV series, it is likely that, on more than one occasion, you would have liked to have been able to download an extract in audio format of your favorite movie or series to listen to it over and over again. If you want to know how to extract audio from video on mac you have come to the right article.
In this article, we are going to show you the best applications to be able to carry out this process and how to do it very simply and quickly, whether you have a latest-generation Mac or if your Mac is older than moisture.
QuickTime
The first option that we show you in all the tutorials that we publish on Soy de Mac, they invite us to use native apps or Apple. And this time is no exception.
The QuickTime application, allows us to extract the audio from a video without the need to resort to third-party applications in a very simple way, although it does not allow us to select the output format.
How to extract audio from a video with QuickTime
- The first thing we need to do is start the application and open the video from which we want to extract the audio.
- Next, we go to the menu Archive and we select Export as.
- Within the Export as menu, select the option Only audio.
- Finally, select the destination directory of the file to be generated and click on Ok.
The generated format is .m4a, a format only compatible with Apple devices. If you want to share it with other people, you will have to first convert it to .MP3 format.
VLC
VLC is the best application currently available in the market for play any type of format, both audio and video on any platform.
This open source application is much more than just a video player. It not only allows us to watch videos, but also with it we can also download YouTube videos, record the screen of our Mac, convert videos to other formats, extract the audio from a video…
How to extract audio from a video with VLC
- Once we have downloaded the app since web page, we open the application.
- Next, we go to the menu Archive and we select Convert / Issue.
- Then we drag the video from which we want to extract the audio to the application.
- In the next step, in the section Select Profile click on the drop-down box and we select which output format we want to use:
- Vorbis (OGG)
- MP3 (recommended format as it is compatible with all ecosystems and operating systems).
- MP4
- FLAC
- CD
- Custom.
- Once the output format is selected, click on Save as File and select the path where we want to store the file generated by the application.
- Finally, we click on Save.
VLC won't show any progress bar that tells us what state of the conversion it is in, so we can only wait for the file to be generated in the selected location.
The generated file does not include the extension, so we must add it later by editing the file name.
iMovie
Apple's free video editor, iMovie also allows us to extract the audio from a video in a simple way, as long as they are not files downloaded from the internet.
This is because iMovie not characterized by being compatible with a wide range of formats, so we can only use it to extract the audio from videos that we have recorded or that have been shared with us.
To extract the audio, we must first create a Project with the video and from the Projects window, export the result to an audio file.
Video2Audio
If you don't want to complicate your life or don't have much time, we can make use of the Video2Audio application, an application available in the Mac App Store and whose main function is that: extract audio from a video quickly and easily.
This application it only allows us to extract audio from videos in MP4 format, which will force us to previously convert the video format if it is not already in this format. The file that is generated is .m4a, a format only compatible with Apple devices.
It does not allow us to select the section of the video from which we want to extract the audio, so if our intention is to extract the audio from a movie, this application is not the one you are looking for.
Video2Audio has a price in the Mac App Store of 0,99 euros and requires macOS 10.10 or later.
Total Video Converter Lite
Another interesting application that we have available in the Mac App Store and that allows us extract audio from video completely free of charge is Total Video Converter Lite.
Although this app is intended for convert between different video formats, we can also use it to extract the audio from a video, selecting one of the different audio formats compatible with the application as the output format: WAV, MP3, MP2, AAC, M4A, WMA, FLAC, AMR, AWB, OGG, AC3 , AU, Apple Lossless.
The Lite version allows us to extract the audio without problems. However, if we want to convert to other video formats, we must use the paid version. Although, I repeat, to extract the audio from a video it is not necessary.
Total Video Converter Literrequires macOS 10.6 or later and is available for free download via the following link.
use websites
Si you don't want to install apps on your Mac, an option to take into account is to use one of the different web pages that allows us to extract the audio from a video.
This option is ideal for extract audio from short video clips, since it requires us to upload it to the internet, a process that can take more or less time depending on its size.
If you have a Mac with M1
If you have a Mac with the M1 processor or later, and you already use an app on your iPhone or iPad to extract audio from a video, check to see if the app also is compatible with these processors.
Amerigo y audio extractor are two of the best applications available on iOS to extract audio from a video in a fast and very simple way that are also compatible with Macs with Apple's ARM M1 processor.