We believe there are many reasons for a video to audio conversion. Sometimes you find the background music or a song in a movie is beautiful and pleasant, and then you may want to extract it and loop play it on your audio device. Sometimes you may want to extract the cool and amazing sound effects from a video and set them as the background music of a home-made video. Or you may want to convert a foreign language movie to an audio file for foreign language learning. To convert videos to audio files, a good video to audio converter is necessary. Here we will introduce you the top 8 best video to audio converters to help you convert various videos into MP3, AAC, FLAC and more popular audio formats on Windows and Mac easily and quickly.

 

1. DVDFab Video Converter

DVDFab Video Converter is not only a fantastic video converter to convert between different video formats but also the best video to audio converter that can convert any video to various audio formats including AAC, FLAC, M4A, MP3 and more in a quick way. To extract the audio file from a video, you only need to load the video source, choose an audio format and click the “Start” button. Thanks to the advanced hardware acceleration technology, hyper-threading technology and multi-core support, DVDFab can convert video to audio in a few minutes, even a few seconds. The feature of batch conversion can also save you a lot of time.

DVDFab Video Converter also allows you to extract an audio clip from the whole video. It comes with a built-in editor, which enables you to trim out the video (audio) part you do not want. Advanced options are also available for you to set the codec, sample rate, bit rate and more. The audio files outputted by DVDFab are always in high quality, so DVDFab would be your best choice if you are very concerned about the audio quality.

2. Online Audio Converter

Just as its name implies, it is an online audio converter that doesn’t require an installation. It is free and can convert over 300 different file formats including video formats to MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG and more. Its interface is straight-forward, so it would be easy-to-use for people from all levels. Some advanced tools are embedded in this online audio converter. It allows you to configure the quality, bitrate, frequency, and number of channels and change the track’s name, artist, album, year and genre. The largest file it supports is 2048 MB.

 

3. Free Video to Audio Converter

Free Video to Audio Converter is a free application with some advanced features. With it, you can convert any popular video and audio formats to MP3, M4A and other audio formats. It can batch process up to 32 extractions/conversions at the same time. It contains the trim feature which enables you to remove the unwanted audio part and save the splendid part for a ringtone. This video to audio converter also includes some other features which allows you to rip music CDs, join audio files into one, and set the parameters. It is available for both Windows and Mac systems.

 

4. OnlineVideoConverter.com

OnlineVideoConverter.com is another free online video to audio converter which can convert video links from video sites like YouTube and more and video files from your device to video formats like MP4, AVI, MPG, etc. and audio formats like MP3, AAC, OGG, WMA, etc. It is touted as a great video to audio converter for its high-quality outputs and fast conversion speed. This online video converter enables you to choose the audio quality you want and removed the audio part you don’t want.

 

5. Online-convert.com

Online-convert.com is a powerful and full-featured online video to audio converter. In its website, you can convert video files and YouTube or other video links to MP3, AAC, FLAC, M4A and more. As a matter of fact, it is not only a video to audio converter, but also a multifunctional converter to convert video, image, ebook, and more. It has many optional settings, which allow you to change the audio bitrate, sample rate, audio channels and trim the audio. It is free for files smaller than 50 MB (including 50 MB), but a purchase is required if you want to convert a larger file.

 

6. Free Video to MP3 Converter

Free Video to MP3 Converter is a free Windows video to audio converter which can convert all kinds of videos to MP3 or WAV audio formats. It can only output MP3 and WAV, but it is well-received for its simplicity and high-quality outputs. This video to audio converter automatically fills the title tag and the artwork, and it will take a snapshot from the middle of video, which can be seen when you playback the outputs with iTunes, Winamp or look through them with your Windows Explorer.

 

7. Xilisoft Video to Audio Converter

Xilisoft Video to Audio Converter is a versatile converter that can easily extract audio files from AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4 and more videos and convert them to MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, M4A, AAC, AC3, OGG or Sun AU audio. This video to audio converter can take advantage of multi-core CPU to speed up the conversion process, which makes it become one of the fast audio converters. It allows you to customize your output file from many ways: you can edit the ID3 tag info, extract an audio segment, set the specified file size, split an audio file into several files and set the audio parameters. It is only available for Windows platform.

 

8. ImTOO Video to Audio Converter

ImTOO Video to Audio Converter is a powerful audio extractor that can convert videos to audio files to at a high speed and with great quality. A lot of video formats including AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, H.265, MKV and more are supported, and the output audio formats can be MP3, WMA, WAV, M4A and more. It is in fact an audio converter, which can convert among audio formats and convert audio CD with lots of codecs. With its support to multi-core CPU, it can make the most of your CPU and convert video to audio quickly. Same with most video to audio converters, it has advanced features for you to extract an audio clip, change the parameters and split the source file into several ones. How to convert video to audio? You can use this video to audio converter on both Windows and Mac platforms.

Now we have shown you all the top 8 best video to audio converters. If you still don’t know which is the right one for you to use, you can go to their websites to learn more or download them to have a try. And also, if you are interested in converting MP4 to MP3 using Windows Media Player, you can find the answer on our site.