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How To Rip Audio From Video Files In OS X
Mar 11, 2025
A quick tip.
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how you can rip audio from almost any
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video with QuickTime Player in Mac OS 10
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now Quicktime player has a lot of Handy
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functionality that not a lot of people
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use just because they don't know about
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it and if you actually look into
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QuickTime Player there's a lot of neat
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stuff that you can do and one of the
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neat features is ripping the audio from
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pretty much any video now the reason I
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say pretty much is because there are a
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couple different formats that if quick
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time doesn't support you won't be able
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to use obviously so but most file
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formats are supported like MP4 that mov
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most things that you would use there's a
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couple file formats that aren't
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supported that you won't be able to rip
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the audio from but they're very minor
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and chances are you won't be using them
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anyways so when I open up this video
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here I'm going to want to make sure that
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I'm opening up with QuickTime Player 10
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and not something like QuickTime Player
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7 which is the old version and if you're
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on an operating system like leopard that
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doesn't support QuickTime Player 10 you
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won't be able to do this unless you have
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the pro version of QuickTime Player 7 so
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we're going to open this up and this is
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a previous video on Cult of Mac here of
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course I should warn you you could
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theoretically use this for piracy for
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ripping your own audio tracks from
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videos uh but you know that is illegal
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so you really shouldn't be doing that uh
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but you know just just use it as your
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own risk so I'm going to go up here to
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file and I am going to select export now
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under export you're going to have a lot
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of different options that you can use
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for exporting files so if I look under
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here you can see that by default it's
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selected for mac and PC but you'll see
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this audio only file option right here
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and it says compatible with iPod iPhone
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iPad Apple TV Mac and PC and that's as
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simple as is and from here I can just
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name it whatever I want and I'm just
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going to name it
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audio from video and I'm going to hit
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export and now it's going to export to
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my desktop in this case and it doesn't
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take long at all and I can click quick
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time player and you can see right here I
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have audio from video and it exports as
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a m4a file which if you look is an M4
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audio file so it's not an MP3 or
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anything like that but it's still audio
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that you can work with and actively use
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in iTunes or whatever you need and if I
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preview this file you can see that
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indeed the audio in it is exactly the
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same as the audio in the
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video and that's how it works and it's
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really as easy as that and I've used
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this before and it works great and I've
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never had any problems with it and it's
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just another easy thing that you can do
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with QuickTime Player 10 right in Mac OS
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10 so there you go there's how you can
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rip the audio from nearly any video file
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within QuickTime Player 10 of course if
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you have anything that you'd like to see
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me do a howu on make sure to send me an
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email I hope you found this video useful
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and thank you for watching
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