Comments on: Convert Video to an Audio Track Directly in Mac OS X

By: Remove the Audio Track from a Video with iMovie

Remove the Audio Track from a Video with iMovie — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:28:14 +0000

[...] you want to remove the audio track from a movie completely? Although it can’t be done right in the Finder like extracting, it is very easy to ditch the background audio do with the help of [...]

By: dedet73

dedet73 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:31:15 +0000

great trick thanks

By: Yong

Yong — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:37:20 +0000

This problem is annoying. How come iTunes doesn’t allow to change the Media Kind to “Music” even if it already knows it’s a audio file. Hope someone can dig into it and find out a way to change Media Kind.

By: Todd Bradley

Todd Bradley — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:57:55 +0000

Wow, that pretty much eliminates most of my need for Sound Grinder.

By: Sid Farcus

Sid Farcus — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:30:37 +0000

The Automator action that does the encoding for the service acts as a front-end for the afconvert command line tool. If you want to see the command strings used by the service, look in the Console app after running the service. It will show every command line string done by the service!!!!! More info here:

By: Craig S. Cottingham

Craig S. Cottingham — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:15:00 +0000

Transcoding music videos to audio files works great for me, but when I add the audio file to iTunes, it still shows the video icon in the library, and when I go to Get Info -> Options the Media Kind dropdown has “Music Video” instead of “Music”. In the Summary, the Kind is “AAC audio file” and the file extension is “m4a”. How can I force the Media Kind to “Music”?

By: DC

DC — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:24:35 +0000

You can do this with QuickTime

By: Estrarre una traccia audio da un video in Mac OS X | iSpazio MAC

Estrarre una traccia audio da un video in Mac OS X | iSpazio MAC — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:15:56 +0000

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By: MJ

MJ — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:05:19 +0000

Can you call this converter in terminal?

By: How to Enable the Video & Audio Encoder Tools in Mac OS X Lion

How to Enable the Video & Audio Encoder Tools in Mac OS X Lion — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:44:53 +0000

[...] encode and convert video and audio to other formats right on the desktop. We just covered a tip on how to convert video to audio using the media encoder, but it turns out this feature isn’t enabled by default for all Mac [...]

By: SSGraphix

SSGraphix — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:23:03 +0000

I convert stuff all the time. Wow, it’s funny how stuff is buried deep in a menu though. It should just be right in the edit menu instead.

By: EldRick

EldRick — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:46:03 +0000

Or you could just use Piezo.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:07:47 +0000

The menu item s/b there if your file is on your desktop. If it’s in iTunes simply drag the file to your desktop to create a copy. Then right or control-click on it to bring up the menu.

By: Spuk

Spuk — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:57:54 +0000

@Michael, mine didn’t either, at least not visible. But check under Services when you right click. It’s there. I bet there’s a story on making services visible on the context menu (in fact, I remember such an article being here in the last week or so).
Combining this trick with the Easy Youtube Video Downloader (save as .mp4 file type) in Firefox means converting will be much easier than waiting for the sometimes flaky save as 128 mp3 option in Easy Youtube Video Downloader.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:02:23 +0000

My system (Lion 10.7.2) does not have this option in the context menu. Is there a system setting to activate this option?