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Batch processing isn't available yet: drop files one by one, or use the Merger to join them.
You can convert MOV to M4A for free: upload your MOV above and Flippy extracts the audio as M4A in your browser, no signup needed.
Turning MOV into M4A isn't really a conversion: it's an extraction: Flippy lifts the audio track out of your MOV and re-packs it on its own. You keep the sound and drop the pixels, swapping a MOV that runs frequently huge: camera and ProRes MOVs can run to gigabytes per minute for an M4A built for sounding great anywhere in the Apple ecosystem.
MOV is Apple's homebody: gorgeous on a Mac, awkward everywhere else. It was born in 1991, Apple's QuickTime team, and its real weak spot is traveling: Windows, Android and the web would all rather meet an MP4.
M4A is AAC in Apple's favorite outfit: the audio-only MP4 your iPhone speaks natively. An MP4 container holding only audio: usually AAC, occasionally Apple's lossless ALAC. That makes it the right destination when what you need is sounding great anywhere in the Apple ecosystem.
Drop your MOV file into the flipper above, or click to browse for it.
Check the output format: M4A is already selected for you.
Hit Convert, give it a moment, then download your new M4A.
| MOV | M4A | |
|---|---|---|
| Born | 1991, Apple's QuickTime team | 2003, popularized by Apple's iTunes Store |
| Type | video · container | audio · lossy |
| Best for | shooting and editing on Apple hardware, where it's the native tongue | sounding great anywhere in the Apple ecosystem |
| Weak spot | traveling: Windows, Android and the web would all rather meet an MP4 | older Windows software and stubborn car stereos that expect a .mp3 |
| Typical size | frequently huge: camera and ProRes MOVs can run to gigabytes per minute | like AAC: better-than-MP3 sound at about 1 MB per minute |
| Plays on | Mac and iPhone natively; elsewhere it depends on the player's mood. | iPhone, Mac and iTunes natively; most modern Android and Windows apps too. |
No: extraction copies the audio that's already in the MOV. Whatever the soundtrack sounded like inside the video, that's what your M4A will sound like.
Much smaller: you're keeping the audio and dropping the video, which is most of the weight. Expect like AAC: better-than-MP3 sound at about 1 MB per minute.
iPhone, Mac and iTunes natively; most modern Android and Windows apps too. That's the usual reason people leave MOV behind: M4A simply opens in more of the places that matter.
It scales with length and resolution: short clips finish in seconds, long HD videos can take a few minutes. Files auto-delete within an hour after.