Name says it all. Is there a way for us non-QT-pro-users to extract the audio from a .mov file? I’ve looked at tucows, and everything I can download there has this wonderful unique feature- I download, I install, I set-up for extraction, and suddenly… “Oh, by the way, we’ll only extract 16 seconds of audio unless you send us thirty bucks.”
Lord, there’s gotta be a better way.
Anyone out there able to help me out?
What you’re looking for is an app that “demuxes” or “de-multiplexes” the quicktime file, that is, separate the audio and video without further compression. You may find a free one, but Quicktime is notoriously quirky and probably requires a reasonably serious piece of software to do it.
3ivX D4 Media Splitter does, and costs just $US6.95 here. Probably the best you’re going to get.
RAD Video Tools (free) allows you to convert a QT movie to another format, including AVI, from which you could use any number of video tools (VirtualDubMod being one of my favourites) to demux/extract the audio stream.
Mange, I’ve downloaded the files you suggested, and I’m having a devil of a time getting them to do what I’d like them to do. Any chance you could give me a step-by-step? I’m finding the online help for them not very… Helpful.
If you have audio recording software, try this: go into the Windows Mixer via the speaker icon in the systray (or alternately, go to Start | Run | type in ‘sndvol32.exe’ minus quotes). Go to Options| Properties | Adjust Properties for (check) Recording | OK, and check the box under a slider that can be named several things, usually “What You Hear” or “Sum” or “Stereo Mix”. Go back to your recording program, start it recording, and Alt/tab to the QT player, and start the .mov file playing. If your sound card will allow it (most will), the sound from the movie will be recorded as a .wav file in your recording program. Let us know if that works for you.
Sadly, no audio-recording software that I’m aware of on my machine. 
OK, go here and get Audacity for free. Install it, and it’ll work out of the box, so to speak.
Success! And thank you very much to everyone who offered ideas!