Tuesday, 17 December 2013
In our post 13 awesome (and
free) tools to rip audio from video, we listed the awesome
all-things-sound-and-audio tool Audacity but stated that there was no direct
way to extract audio from video files using it, and asked our readers to pitch
in if they knew the trick. Well, one of our smart readers Jeremy pitched in
with his 2 cents and here we are with the post!
It’s a no-brainer actually. We had no idea extracting audio from
a video files using Audacity would be so easy. See for yourself.
Step 1: Download and install Audacity.
Step 2: Open a video file by going to File
-> Open.
Step 3: Again navigate to File but
this time choose Export. Choose the file format to save the
audio to and click on Save.
Note: If you see an error message like, “xyz is a video file,
Audacity cannot open such files” then consider downloading FFmpeg for
Audacity.
Step 4: Navigate to Edit ->
Preferences -> Libraries and check Allow background on-demand
loading. That should be a one-time setting.
Start converting as many videos as you like. Simple and straight
forward, isn’t it? Know of more Audacity tricks? Tell us in the comments
section.
