# Grabbing the audio from a video clip

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grabbing-the-audio-from-a-video-clip/628090>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 13, 2012, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grabbing-the-audio-from-a-video-clip/628090 "2012-07-13T06:07:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grabbing-the-audio-from-a-video-clip/628090/1 "2012-07-13T06:07:51Z")

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I’m putting together a Music & TV trivia night, and one category I’d like to try is “Guess the TV show from the theme song”

I’ve got a pretty good collection of TV series on DVD, so if I ripped down an episode onto the PC, anyone have any suggestions for how I could extract an mp3/wav file of the audio from the video file?

Cheers

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**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grabbing-the-audio-from-a-video-clip/628090/2 "2012-07-13T06:19:41Z")

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Not for DVD, but this is great for youtube to mp3:  
[http://www.youtube-mp3.org/](http://www.youtube-mp3.org/)

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**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grabbing-the-audio-from-a-video-clip/628090/3 "2012-07-13T09:53:43Z")

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I used [Audacity](http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) to record the audio from one of my concert DVDs.

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grabbing-the-audio-from-a-video-clip/628090/4 "2012-07-14T03:32:16Z")

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If you already have VLC, it will do that. Look for the “convert” menu.

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**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grabbing-the-audio-from-a-video-clip/628090/5 "2012-07-14T05:53:13Z")

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> [@rowrrbazzle](#):
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> If you already have VLC, it will do that. Look for the “convert” menu.

Thanks. This is an easy way to do it.