video in, M4A out: free, no signup, and both files delete themselves within an hour.
One file at a time for now
Batch processing isn't available yet: drop files one by one, or use the Merger to join them.
Try another fileYou can convert video to M4A for free: upload your video above and Flippy extracts the audio as M4A in your browser, no signup needed.
Turning video into M4A isn't really a conversion: it's an extraction: Flippy lifts the audio track out of your video and re-packs it on its own. You keep the sound and drop the pixels, swapping a video that runs anywhere from short clips to multi-gigabyte recordings for an M4A built for sounding great anywhere in the Apple ecosystem.
A classic video to M4A job: camera clips, screen recordings and downloads, bound for Apple devices, which treat it as a native tongue.
Video is the heaviest thing most of us ever attach: screen recordings, camera clips, whole talks. It comes from wherever your camera, screen recorder or download made it.
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 video 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.
Quality tip for video to M4A: 256 kbps AAC is what Apple itself sells music at; 128 kbps still edges out MP3 at the same size. The track inside your video sets the ceiling: an extraction can match it, never beat it.
| video | M4A | |
|---|---|---|
| Born | wherever your camera, screen recorder or download came from | 2003, popularized by Apple's iTunes Store |
| Type | video · any format | audio · lossy |
| Best for | any moving picture: recordings, rips, exports, downloads | sounding great anywhere in the Apple ecosystem |
| Weak spot | nothing inherently; every container brings its own quirks | older Windows software and stubborn car stereos that expect a .mp3 |
| Typical size | anywhere from short clips to multi-gigabyte recordings | like AAC: better-than-MP3 sound at about 1 MB per minute |
| Plays on | Depends on the container and the codec inside it. | iPhone, Mac and iTunes natively; most modern Android and Windows apps too. |
The M4A is encoded once from the exact track inside the video: from a typical soundtrack the difference is inaudible, but it can't sound better than what the video carried.
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 video 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.