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ffmpeg - Extract mp3 from video

Extract mp3 from an mp4 videos

This will extract the audio of any mp4 videos in your current folder with the same name of the original video. 

find . -type f -name "*.mp4" -exec bash -c 'FILE="$1"; ffmpeg -i "${FILE}" -vn -c:a libmp3lame -y "${FILE%.mkv}.mp3";' _ '{}' \;

Extract mp3 from an mkv videos

This will extract the audio of any mkv videos in your current folder with the same name of the original video. 

find . -type f -name "*.mkv" -exec bash -c 'FILE="$1"; ffmpeg -i "${FILE}" -vn -c:a libmp3lame -y "${FILE%.mkv}.mp3";' _ '{}' \;