MOV to MP3 converter
Turn the sound of an iPhone, Mac or QuickTime MOV into an MP3, in your browser.
Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop a video
MP4, MOV, WebM or any video your browser can play. It stays on your computer.
Runs on Mediabunny (MPL-2.0). MP3 encoding uses the LAME MP3 encoder (LGPL). OGG encoding uses libvorbis (BSD).
More about this tool
- 1
Add a MOV
Videos shot on an iPhone, Mac screen recordings and QuickTime exports all work. MP4 and other videos do too.
- 2
Pick a bitrate
128 kbps for speech, 192 kbps for music and mixes, 320 kbps for the highest MP3 quality.
- 3
Convert and download
Play the MP3 to check it, then download it.
MOV is Apple's QuickTime format, and MP4 was built on it, so the two usually hold the same AAC audio. Where your MOV came from tells you what to expect:
- Videos shot with the iPhone Camera app are MOV files with sound from the phone's microphones.
- Mac screen recordings made with the Screenshot toolbar or QuickTime Player are MOV files, and they only have sound if you picked a microphone under Options before recording. Without one, there's no audio to convert.
- Renaming a .mov to .mp3 doesn't convert it. The sound stays inside a video file that most players won't open as audio.
- QuickTime Player: open the MOV and choose File > Export As > Audio Only. You get an M4A, not an MP3, which most apps and phones also play.
- ffmpeg, for one file: ffmpeg -i input.mov -vn -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 192k audio.mp3
- ffmpeg, for every MOV in a folder: for f in *.mov; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -vn -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 192k "${f%.mov}.mp3"; done
Sources
Questions
No. Your browser reads the video and encodes the MP3 itself, with the LAME encoder running on your computer. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Mac screen recordings only capture sound when a microphone is chosen under Options in the Screenshot toolbar or QuickTime Player. A recording made without one has no audio track.
For talking, 128 kbps (about 1.0 MB a minute) is enough. For music or a recording you'll edit, use 192 or 320 kbps.
No. Drop the MOV in as it is. The tool reads the audio straight out of it.
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