AVI → M4A, sound from old footage
The audio of a legacy recording, decoded and saved as modern AAC without converting the whole video.
Runs in your browser. Your file never leaves your computer.
- ExtractsJust the soundtrack
- Faster thanConverting the full video
- OutputAAC at 256 kbps
- HandlesThe old formats' audio
Sometimes only the sound of an old AVI matters: an interview taped in 2004, a rehearsal, a speech. Extracting just the audio skips re-encoding the video entirely, decoding the legacy soundtrack in software through the bundled decoder and saving 256 kbps AAC. It finishes far faster than a full conversion of the same file. Old MP3 or PCM tracks come through cleanly; genuinely exotic audio codecs fail with a named reason rather than silence.
Questions
Why extract instead of converting the video?
Speed and purpose: audio-only decoding is much lighter, and when the recording's value is the sound, the video re-encode is wasted work.
What audio do old AVIs usually contain?
MP3 or plain PCM most often, both decoded without drama. Rare proprietary audio fails with the codec named.
Where does the work happen?
In your browser; the decoder is fetched once and runs locally.
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- AVI to MP4Old codecs decoded in software by a bundled decoder, re-encoded to H.264 that plays on today's everything.
- AVI to MP3Tapes and captures reduced to universally playable audio, decoded locally from formats players forgot.
- WAV to M4AAAC at 256 kbps: better sound per megabyte than MP3, native on every Apple device, fine everywhere else.
- AIFF to M4AFrom a studio-size file to a share-size one: AAC at 256 kbps, native on the Apple gear the AIFF came from.
- FLAC to M4AYour lossless library, made playable on iPhones and everything else, at 256 kbps AAC.
- MP3 to M4AWhen a workflow or app insists on M4A. Honest note: this cannot make the MP3 sound better, only fit better.
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