How to convert MP4 to audio files?

Convert MP4 to audio files for editing, listening with your MP3 Player, or playing with WMP, etc.

MP4 is the global file extension for the official container format defined in the Mpeg4 standard. MPEG-4 allows each streaming over the internet, multiplexing of multiple video and audio streams in one file, variable frame- and bit-rates, subtitles and still images.

If you want to listen MP4 video files with your MP3 player, you have to convert MP4 to MP3 audio files. And you also can convert MP4 video file to MP3 for playing on iPod, or burning MP3 CDs. MP3 is now the most popular audio format for music thanks to the wide usage of the Internet. MP3 format features better audio quality and higher compression rate.

If you want to play your MP4 video files on portable digital audio players or Windows Media Player, you need to convert MP4 to WMA format. WMA is a proprietary compressed audio file format developed by Microsoft for Windows Media Player. WMA files can contain more tag information than MP3 files, this performance advantage makes it handy for applications like portable digital audio players.

And sometimes you need to extract audio from MP4 video file for editing, you'd better convert MP4 to WAV format. WAV format is a standard file format for storing audio streaming by Windows system, which features no quality loss, no compression, and easy for editing.

There are many video to audio converter available on the Internet, and several support converting MP4 to audio files. You can download the related programs here, and learn the process of converting MP4 video as follows: