In message , Reinhard
Skarbal writes:
In article , le
says...

On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:46:08 -0700, WinUser
wrote:

I used Win 7 movie maker to extract a portion of a .MP4.
Now I want to extract the music to a windows compatible music file.
Then put on my cell phone.

Can something on Windows 7 or XP do this ?

If not, is there a free application to do this?

ffmpeg
Use with Avanti GUI,

There is also xrecode II and newer xrecode III
http://xrecode.com/xrecode3/#Download

and TEncoder (using ffmpeg) http://tencoder.sourceforge.net/

Regards
Reinhard

I have these three (all free and these versions work under XP - websites
may not be for versions I have):

Free Video to Audio Converter version 2015 6.5.7
http://www.free-audio-editor.com/fre...oconverter.php

AoA Audio Extractor Basic version 2.3.7
http://www.aoamedia.com/audioextractor.htm

Pazera Free Audio Extractor 2.4 (32-bit)
http://www.pazera-software.com/produ...dio-extractor/ (scroll down
past the lists!)

All seem to do the job well; I think all I got from links people have
posted here (here being one of '7.general or 'xp.general).

Goldwave can also load (the audio from) several video file formats,
which of course it can then save in whatever format you want).

What I find difficult to do (with all of them - though I _think_ they
all _can_ do it - is to select the option to _not_ recode, but just
extract the audio. They all _seem_ to want to recode it for you, which
obviously takes longer and degrades (though usually not noticeably so)
the audio. (It doesn't help, of course, when the original is e. g. coded
as stereo but is in fact mono, or is coded at a much higher bit or
sample rate than is justified by the actual content, presumably because
it is thought [incorrectly in some cases!] to be insignificant compared
to the video so may as well just shove it to maximum.)
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