Music only, or full mix
Choose the music stem when you want just the score, or the whole audio when you only need to extract music from video for reference.
Why extract music from video here
Two clearly labelled paths so you always know what you are getting when you extract music from video.
Extract music from video without the dialogue
The stem path separates speech from music, so to extract music from video does not mean exporting talking heads too.
Extract music from video locally
Previews and demuxing happen in your browser; separation runs on your own PC. Nothing is uploaded either way.
Original picture untouched
The video stream is read, never re-rendered — extract music from video and your source stays pristine.
Preview the mix first
Play the soundtrack in the page before committing, so you extract music from video from the right cut.
Standard formats
MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV in; WAV, MP3 or the stems out — files that work in every editor.
How to extract music from video
Four steps from a mixed soundtrack to a usable music track.
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Drop your video in
The browser reads duration, tracks and codecs locally and shows a preview player.
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Grab the full mix (optional)
Need the combined audio first? Extract it right in this tab — the same demux that powers the extract-audio tool.
- 3
Extract music from video as a stem
The free Windows app splits the audio into speech, music and effects so you can extract music from video without the voices.
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Export the music
Save the music stem as WAV or MP3 — the moment you truly extract music from video cleanly.
What you actually get when you extract music from video
The difference between the full mix and a music stem — and why it matters.
Full mix vs music stem
A plain demux gives you everything at once: dialogue, music and effects in one file. Fine for listening, useless for editing. When people extract music from video for a project, they mean the music stem — the isolated score without the talking.
Getting that requires source separation, not conversion. The pipeline on this page labels the two paths explicitly, so you never mistake a full-mix export for a clean stem when you extract music from video.
How the separation works
The separation model splits the soundtrack into stems on your own machine: speech, music and sound effects. To extract music from video you keep the music stem and discard the rest.
Because the heavy step runs in the free Windows app, there is no upload, no queue and no length limit — you can extract music from video from a full episode, not just a 60-second teaser.
Use cases and limits
Typical wins: recovering a background track you licensed but lost the files for, pulling a clean bed for a recut, sampling your own score from a finished film.
Know the limits: music under heavy dialogue can retain faint speech bleed, and extraction does not grant rights you did not have — extract music from video only from material you are allowed to use.
Why extract music from video
Jobs where the score is the asset trapped inside the picture — each is a reason to extract music from video instead of re-scoring.
Recover your own score
The session files are gone but the rendered film survives — extract music from video to get the cue back into your library.
Clean beds for recuts
Extract music from video of last year's promo, then lay the same bed under the new edit without voices.
Reference and transcription
Musicians transcribe film themes; the music stem makes the notes audible without the foley fighting them.
Honest limits
What this page will and will not deliver.
Stems need the app
The browser gives you the full mix instantly; to extract music from video as an isolated stem, the free Windows app performs the separation.
Speech bleed possible
Dialogue overlapping loud music can leave traces in the stem — expect excellent, not surgical, isolation.
100 MB browser step
Bigger files skip straight to the Windows app, which has no size cap.
Rights unchanged
Copyright follows the source. Extract music from video only from your own or licensed material.
FAQ: extract music from video
Before you export the score.
Windows app
Extract music from video on Windows
The separation engine that lets you extract music from video cleanly — speech, music and effects stems — runs in the free, open-source Windows app, entirely offline.
- Music, speech and SFX stems from any length file
- No upload, no queue, no account
- GPU-accelerated with NVIDIA, CPU fallback
- Free and open source
Related audio tools
The same stem engine removes background music or isolates vocals — see the sister tools.
Remove background music from videoRemove background music from video while keeping speech and effects. Free and local — short clips run in your browser, long files in the Windows app.Extract audio from videoExtract audio from video as MP3, WAV or M4A in seconds. Free, in-browser extraction — your file never leaves your device.Remove voice from songRemove voice from song and keep the instrumental. Free local separation — preview vocals and backing, then export both stems.Voice isolationVoice isolation that runs locally: isolate the lead voice from any mix and export the vocal stem free. No upload, no account.
Sources and references
We ground our claims in public specifications and documentation. The references below define how audio tracks, media containers and structured data actually work.
“You pick the file, the tool does the work on your device, and nothing is ever uploaded.”
- FFmpeg Documentation — stream selection and mapping — how lossless audio extraction, track mapping and remuxing actually work
- MDN Web Docs — Web Audio API (W3C) — the browser API that decodes your audio and draws the waveform locally
- python-audio-separator (open source, MIT) — the local stem-separation engine family the free Windows app builds on
- Google Search Central — Structured data — the guidelines this site's FAQ, HowTo and application schemas follow
Extract music from video the honest way
Preview the mix in your browser, run the stems on your PC. Extract music from video here whenever the bed matters more than the picture.
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