I have some videos from which I would like to extract the audio and save it as MP3. I could do that manually with VLC media player, but there is a much better solution in Python.
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Install MoviePy
MoviePy is a Python module for video editing, which we can use to work with video files and modify them as we need. You can install MoviePy with this command:
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pip install moviepy |
Extract the audio
We need to import the video into MoviePy. From there we can access the audio and write it into a new MP3 file:
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import moviepy import moviepy.editor video = moviepy.editor.VideoFileClip("video.mp4") audio = video.audio audio.write_audiofile("only_audio.mp3") |
Conclusion
MoviePy is a powerful module that allows us to turn MP4 into MP3 with just a few lines of code. If you are interested in working with videos, you should check official documentation of MoviePy to see what else you can do.