Audio Extraction Tools

Times may arise where you want to take the audio file from a video (say an interview or podcast), but you may not have the software needed to make it happen. Free software such as Pazera Free Audio Extractor makes the process easy and fast, ensuring that you have a copy of the audio that you can put on your smart device or legacy media player for easy listening.

  1. Any Video Converter icon
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    AnvSoft Any Video Converter is the most renowned video converter for converting video files between various formats, with fast converting speed and excellent video quality.

    219 Any Video Converter alternatives
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    • FreemiumProprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    Top Any Video Converter Features

    1.  Batch conversion
    2.  Crop video
    3.  No registration required
    4.  Support for NVIDIA CUDA acceleration
    5.  Works Offline
    6.  Dark Mode
    7.  Hardware Accelerated
    8.  No Tracking
    9.  Ad-free
    10.  Audio Extraction
    11.  Built-in editor
    12.  Record desktop activity
  2. X Lossless Decoder icon
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    X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.3 and later. Supports: (Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.

    32 X Lossless Decoder alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Lossless Audio
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Audio Extraction
    5.  OGG
    6.  Split CUE to tracks
  3. Pazera Free Audio Extractor icon
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    Free application that converts audio files to MP3, AAC, AC3, E-AC3, WMA, FLAC, M4A, OGG, Opus, WavPack, AIFF, MKA or WAV format. Moreover, the program allows extraction of audio tracks from video files without loss of sound quality.

    64 Pazera Free Audio Extractor alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeProprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
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    Pazera Free Audio Extractor Features

    1.  Audio Extraction
    2.  Multiple languages
  4. SoundConverter icon
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    The sound conversion application for the GNOME environment. It reads anything the GStreamer library can read (Ogg Vorbis, AAC, MP3, FLAC, WAV, AVI, MPEG, MOV, M4A, AC3, DTS, ALAC, MPC, Shorten, APE, SID, etc...), and writes WAV, FLAC, MP3, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis files.

    35 SoundConverter alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Audio Extraction
    2.  Support for Multiple threads
  5. Freemake Audio Converter icon
     51 likes

    Convert audio free to MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, AAC, M4A, OGG, convert audio to MP3 player, iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, extract audio from video, join audio files.

    98 Freemake Audio Converter alternatives
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    • Windows

    Freemake Audio Converter Features

    1.  Convert video to audio (mp3)
    2.  Audio Extraction
  6. Free Video to MP3 Converter icon
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    Use Free Video to MP3 Converter to extract audio from video files to MP3 and WAV Lossless Audio (*.avi, *mpg, *.mpe, *.mp4, *.m4v, *.mpeg, *.dvr-ms, *.wmv, *.mov, *.qt, *.amv, *.3gp, *.3g2 and *.flv).

    58 Free Video to MP3 Converter alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Free Video to MP3 Converter Features

    1.  Audio Extraction
    2.  Convert video to audio (mp3)
    Discontinued

    The latest version is from 2022.

    Bundleware

    The installer is bundled with adware and trojans.

  7. Express Rip icon
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    Express Rip CD ripper can convert CD audio to mp3 or wav file formats. Express Rip lets you rip, convert, encode, and decode music and other audio tracks directly to files on your hard drive.

    36 Express Rip alternatives
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    • Free PersonalProprietary

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    • Windows
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    Express Rip Features

    1.  Audio Extraction
    2.  AAC
    Discontinued

    The latest version (6.0) is from 2023.

  8. Sound Juicer icon
     21 likes

    Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool using GTK+ and GStreamer.

    47 Sound Juicer alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    Sound Juicer Features

    1.  CD Player
    2.  GNOME3 integration
    3.  Audio Extraction
  9. Transcoder Audio Edition icon
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    Transcoder Audio Edition is an audio converter for Linux which can convert from one audio format into another and can extract audio tracks from video files and convert them into audio formats. It uses GTK+ as GUI toolkit and ffmpeg as backend.

    76 Transcoder Audio Edition alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce

    Transcoder Audio Edition Features

    1.  Audio Extraction
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.0.6, released in August 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

  10. Rubyripper icon
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    Rubyripper is a digital audio extraction algorithm that uses cdparanoia error correcting power and it's own secure ripping algorithm to make sure that a CD rip is done successfully and accurately. It is very similar to and inspired by EAC.

    31 Rubyripper alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    Rubyripper Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Audio Extraction
    Discontinued

    The project has been abandoned on March 2014. Last version, 0.6.2, released on December 2011, can be still downloaded from Google Code.

  11. CUERipper icon
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    CUERipper is a utility for extracting digital audio from CDs, an open-source alternative to EAC.

    24 CUERipper alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Lossless Audio
    2.  Portable
    3.  Audio Extraction
  12. Free Audio Video Pack icon
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    Free Audio Video Pack is a collection of portable audio and video converters which helps you to convert between all most popular audio and video formats.

    26 Free Audio Video Pack alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Free Audio Video Pack Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Audio Extraction
    3.  Split CUE to tracks
  13. AVS Video Converter icon
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    Convert over 150 video formats for iPhone, Android, YouTube, and more. Enjoy hardware-accelerated decoding, automation through Command Line Mode, and Batch conversion mode.

    61 AVS Video Converter alternatives
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    • FreemiumProprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    AVS Video Converter Features

    1.  Audio Extraction
    2.  DVD Burner
  14. Grip icon
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    Grip is a CD-player/ripper for the Gnome desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for various audio encoders (including MP3 and Vorbis), letting you take a disc...

    25 Grip alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Grip Features

    1.  Audio Extraction
  15. Total Video Converter icon
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    An extremely powerful and full-featured video converter which converts any video and audio to mp4, avi, iPhone, iPad, mobile, PSP, DVD... and burns video to DVD, AVCHD, Blu-Ray and more.

    151 Total Video Converter alternatives
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    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  SoundCloud Downloader
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  No Tracking
    5.  MP3 Downloader
    6.  Lossless Audio
    7.  Command line interface
    8.  Support for 4K
    9.  CD Burner
    10.  DVD Burner
    11.  Convert DVD to AVI
    12.  CD/DVD Burning