So if you’re using Windows, you’ll need to come to this section.įor Mac, you go to the section and for GNU or Linux, you go to the section.Īnd once you’re here, you can just click on the full instructions. So basically, what you’re trying to do is you’re trying to use the FFmpeg library to help you import the video files into audacity, and then convert the video files into mp3. The FFmpeg import and export library is also available.īut if it’s not available for you, then you need to click on the download button here.Īnd once you click on this download button, what happens is that it’s going to open up the FAQ section, “installing the FFmpeg import or export library”.Īnd you’ll notice what it tells you is that it allows you to import and export much larger range of audio formats, including m4a, aac, ac3, amr, and wma and also import audio from most video files. This is built into Audacity but if you’re using the old versions of Audacity, it’s not available.

Just click on Edit because we’re on Windows and click on preferences.Īnd once we do that, we’ll need to navigate to the libraries section.Īnd you can notice that we have the lame mp3 export library. If you’re on a Mac, it’s under the File tab here. You need to come to the Edit section on Windows and go to preferences.

Now, for audacity to be able to convert an mp4 file, which is a video file to mp3, or any other audio file that is available for export, then you need to add the FFmpeg library in Audacity. Hi, my name is David and if this is your first time watching my video tutorials, and you get value from the content that you watch, kindly consider subscribing.Īudacity is an open source audio editing application that is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. In this video, I’m going to show you how to convert mp4 to mp3 using Audacity.

Mp4 to mp3