An “MP4 to MP3 conversion program” converts the soundtrack of the MP4 film format into MP3 files so that you can listen to them on your cell phone, MP3 player or PC. We’ll show you here how to do this quickly and easily – on the PC, online and with an app.

If MP4 files contain sound, it is often stored in MP3 format in this file container. You can start a conversion from MP4 to MP3, which simply extracts the MP3 file from the format.

Windows:

Convert MP4 videos to MP3 files

In the Windows Store you can get a free tool called “My MP4 to MP3 Converter”. It is very easy to use and basically only consists of three buttons.

• After starting, click on the “Choose files” button to load MP4 files.
• Then click on the “Start Conversion” button and the program will begin the conversion.
• The third button is called “Open MP3 folder” and is simply used to open the folder with the finished files.

Under “Settings” you can specify where the MP3 files should be saved and what quality the conversion will have. The file size also depends on this.

On the topic for OS X users: m4a to mp3 on Mac (3 ways).

Convert MP4 to MP3 with freeware

If you search the Internet for an MP4 to MP3 converter, you will come across a whole range of commercial and sometimes absurdly expensive programs. But if we have learned one thing in the field of sound and video editing in recent years, it is that pretty much everything is available for free.

The freeware program fre:ac audio converter was formerly called BonkEnc and has made a name for itself as a comprehensive CD ripper and sound converter. It can be used to convert M4A to MP3, for example, or generally to convert “MP4 to MP3” – and it’s free! Apart from that, the program also supports formats such as AAC, OGG Vorbis or Flac. As a portable application, the tool also runs from a USB stick.

The program already includes the appropriate LAME MP3 encoder. The conversion is very simple and works well even with the standard settings. If you value high quality, you can change this in the settings. After that, everything is very simple:

1. Single or multiple Drag files or entire folders with the mouse onto the work window.
2. Below the desired Select output directory.
3. Click on the green arrow above or the Keyboard shortcut Ctrl + E to start converting MP4 to MP3.

Convert YouTube links and MP4 files to MP3 online

There are several websites where you can either enter YouTube links and extract MP3 files from videos or upload your own videos and convert them into MP3 files.

Both are possible, for example, with anything2mp3.ccThere you can also select the output format and the bitrate.

Pages like Peggo have specialized in downloading videos from Vimeo or YouTube and then converting them into MP3 files that you can download.

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