Is there a way to convert .mp4's to .mp3's?

[Ayxrion]

I use windows media player to play music

but steam added this new music player
AND IT ONLY FINDS .MP3's
AND ALL THE MUSIC I HAVE ARE .MP4's
is there any way to convert them without loving up the music? ;_;

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[Pecon]

Use freac
http://www.freac.org/

[Ipquarx]

You can use foobar2000 to convert between pretty much every single audio file type format. It's really nice. It's also an amazing music player. I highly reccommend it.

[cooldawson3]

You can use foobar2000 to convert between pretty much every single audio file type format. It's really nice. It's also an amazing music player. I highly reccommend it.

I love foobar, it's got a lot of neat stuff.

[Trifax]

I thought .mp4 was a video format. All your music is in video?

[Ayxrion]

I thought .mp4 was a video format. All your music is in video?

some are, some arent.

[Bisjac]

I thought .mp4 was a video format. All your music is in video?

thats my thought lol. mp4 is low quality video for the sake of small file size.
even if you converted to just the sound, you are already missing a lot of the audio data and it would likely be a stuffty mp3 lol

im guessing hes an apple user. mp4s were favored by apple products when not strictly using that lossless file type of thiers.

[Ipquarx]

If it's in video then you can use Audacity's "Import Audio" feature and open up the video file and it'll extract the audio, then you can export it into whatever format.

[Ayxrion]

thats my thought lol. mp4 is low quality video for the sake of small file size.
even if you converted to just the sound, you are already missing a lot of the audio data and it would likely be a stuffty mp3 lol

im guessing hes an apple user. mp4s were favored by apple products when not strictly using that lossless file type of thiers.

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apple products for me are nooonooo

i download my music from ssyoutube.com :o

[Bisjac]

oh. then you should start looking for a diff downloader that will give you an mp3.
i have a firefox addon that saves youtubes as mp3 for me. at original audio quality.

that wont help your situation converting everything now. but for future mp3s you should do so

[Ipquarx]

thats my thought lol. mp4 is low quality video for the sake of small file size.
even if you converted to just the sound, you are already missing a lot of the audio data and it would likely be a stuffty mp3 lol

You know absolutely NOTHING about video and audio codecs do you

[Bisjac]

i know lots.

and i know mp4 is horsestuff, be it video OR audio.

[ßlöükfáce]

what even is a mp4

[Ipquarx]

i know lots.

and i know mp4 is horsestuff, be it video OR audio.

If AAC (which is what the audio codec is called, if you did indeed know jack stuff about it) is stuff then why don't you do a listening test for me at 256kb/s which is the bitrate of audio that apple releases in its music store and see if you can tell any damn difference

Video codecs are an entirely different story. Video at high resolutions inherently needs a much higher bitrate than what youtube provides to look the same to the original. Audio is generally identical sounding to the original at 128kb/s, video (depending on the resolution) can range from 4000-8000kb/s (or higher if it's 4k resolution) because you just need that much more information to make a really nice looking mp4.

[ZSNO]

i know lots.

and i know mp4 is horsestuff, be it video OR audio.

then oh wise bijac what am good video and audio format