MOV to MP3

From an iPhone video to a plain MP3

MOV is the QuickTime container, which in practice means iPhone and iPad recordings and Mac screen captures. A huge share of the audio people want out of a MOV was never meant to be video at all: a lecture filmed from the back row, a rehearsal, an interview, a voice note recorded with the camera app because it was the nearest button. Converting to MP3 keeps the part that mattered and drops the gigabytes that did not.

Only the audio stream is decoded, and it happens on your own device. The video never uploads, which matters both for speed and because personal recordings stay personal.

• Drop the MOV straight from an iPhone or Mac
• The audio track is decoded locally, video skipped
• Download an MP3 that plays anywhere

Why MP3 as the target

MP3 is the format that needs no explanation: it plays in every app, car, and device made this century, which is exactly what you want when sending a recording to someone whose setup you do not know.

Inside an Apple-only world, M4A is slightly more efficient at the same quality, and the Audio Extractor page can export it when that is the target. For editing, take WAV so nothing is re-compressed before the edit.