How To Extract Audio from FLV Files
Posted: October 15, 2011 by AppleWorld in Labels: Apple, How To, Mac OS X
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Some of us here at Mac|Life headquarters have a penchant for loud, dancey music. Sometimes, those beat-ific artists have special mixes that are not yet available for purchase in the iTunes or Amazon MP3 store, which is really unfortunate. But then we'll find a YouTube video of the song (usually paired up with a static visual of the artist) and repeatedly groove to that downloaded FLV file, though this process can become a bit tiresome overtime. What if we want to take the song with us on the go and load it up on our iPods? Fortunately, that's what audio extractors are for, especially free ones.
Read along to find out how to extract the audio from your FLV files, and keep the music alive.
Use Firefox's Download Helper to extract your FLV file. If you're primarily a Safari user, you can also do so using the YouTubeDownloader extension. Both of these extensions have options to extract the audio from the video, though sometimes the option may not be available for every video that you come across on the web (we encountered this a few times with non-official YouTube videos).
If you've got a library of FLV files already queued up to be converted, then read on.
It's easy to download a free app. All you have to do is head to this link, and then extract it to your desktop and voila! You have a free application on your hard drive that will convert your library of flash video files into music files fit for any iPod.
Fire up this nifty little free app, and then drag and drop each of your files into the program window. When you're finished queuing them up, select Extract and watch the progress bar go to work.
A dialog box will pop up and ask you if you want to head over to the folder where your files have been converted. Click OK, and the application will open up your Music folder. You'll notice that the audio will have been converted to m4a.
Convenient, non? If you'll excuse us, we're going to go groove to our newly acquired tunes, now.
Read along to find out how to extract the audio from your FLV files, and keep the music alive.
Download your movie file using an FLV downloader
Use Firefox's Download Helper to extract your FLV file. If you're primarily a Safari user, you can also do so using the YouTubeDownloader extension. Both of these extensions have options to extract the audio from the video, though sometimes the option may not be available for every video that you come across on the web (we encountered this a few times with non-official YouTube videos).
If you've got a library of FLV files already queued up to be converted, then read on.
Install iExtractMP3
It's easy to download a free app. All you have to do is head to this link, and then extract it to your desktop and voila! You have a free application on your hard drive that will convert your library of flash video files into music files fit for any iPod.
Batch convert your files
Fire up this nifty little free app, and then drag and drop each of your files into the program window. When you're finished queuing them up, select Extract and watch the progress bar go to work.
A dialog box will pop up and ask you if you want to head over to the folder where your files have been converted. Click OK, and the application will open up your Music folder. You'll notice that the audio will have been converted to m4a.
Convenient, non? If you'll excuse us, we're going to go groove to our newly acquired tunes, now.