However, as the saying goes, the best horse stumbles. Normally, using VLC by following the above steps is enough to satisfy your needs of converting a video file to MP3. Then based on your personal requirements, select different sections to make changes. In the Profile edition window, you will see there are four settings: Encapsulation, Video codec, Audio codec and Subtitles. After choosing the profile of Audio-MP3, click 'edit selected profile' with the tool icon on the right side. Tip: In order to have a qualified converted file, you can change some settings to edit profile.

Step 3: In the Convert window, choose Audio – MP3 from the Profile drop-down menu.

Then at the bottom of the window, click the drop-down menu and select Convert. Step 2: Next, in the Open Media window, click the Add button to select the video file you want to convert. Step 1: Download the VLC media player and launch it. The following steps are easy to follow even if you are the first time to use VLC. Not only can it convert any audio format, but also extract audio from video files varying from a wide selection of video formats including MP4, AVI, WMV, 3GP, DIVX, FLV, MOV, ASF, etc. But its function of converting media files might be neglected.

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