Pull the audio out of an M4V video as an MP3. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop M4V files here
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Drop M4V files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. Open Options first if you want to change the defaults. The work happens in this tab and can take a while for large files.
Save the MP3, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The M4V to MP3 converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your videos are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so work starts the moment you press Convert. How long it takes depends on your device and the size of the file.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
M4V has an unfamiliar extension that some upload forms and editors reject, and iTunes-store files are copy-protected. MP3 plays on every phone, computer, car stereo and speaker. An M4V file usually holds H.264 video with AAC audio. M4V is at home in videos for Apple devices and iTunes; MP3 is the usual choice for music and podcasts that must play anywhere. The MP3 contains the soundtrack only; the picture is dropped.
The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can choose the bitrate and trim the start and end. This is demanding work for a browser: a long or high-resolution file can take several minutes, and your device does all of it, so keep the tab open.
The conversion uses your browser's own video and audio codecs (WebCodecs), with hardware acceleration where the device has it; the file is read from disk as it goes and can be up to 2 GB. Where the browser lacks a codec, the page falls back to the compatibility engine. MP3 is written at 192 kbps unless you choose another bitrate.
M4V is Apple's name for an MP4 file, used for movies and TV shows sold through iTunes and for video prepared for iPod, iPhone and Apple TV. Files from the iTunes Store can be copy-protected, which only Apple's software plays. Unprotected M4V files are MP4 files and open nearly everywhere.
Opens in iPhone, Mac, Apple TV, QuickTime and VLC; most players accept it as MP4
M4V converterMP3 is the audio format everything plays. It shrinks audio to roughly a tenth of its uncompressed size by discarding sound most listeners cannot hear. Newer codecs are more efficient, but nothing matches its compatibility.
Opens in Every phone, computer, car stereo and speaker
MP3 converter| M4VM4V video | MP3MP3 audio | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | MPEG-4 video (iTunes Video) | MPEG-1 Audio Layer III |
| Type | Video container | Audio |
| Compression | Lossy (H.264) | Lossy |
| Introduced | 2005, by Apple | 1993, by the Fraunhofer Society and the Moving Picture Experts Group |
| Opens in | iPhone, Mac, Apple TV, QuickTime and VLC; most players accept it as MP4 | Every phone, computer, car stereo and speaker |
| Best for | Videos for Apple devices and iTunes | Music and podcasts that must play anywhere |
| File extension | .m4v | .mp3 |
No. The M4V to MP3 conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
The soundtrack is re-encoded as MP3. MP3 is lossy, but at a normal bitrate the difference is hard to hear. You can choose the bitrate under Options.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the M4V file, press Convert and save the MP3. There is nothing to install.
Yes. Files up to 2 GB are accepted. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.