Every now and then I'll have a movie I want to extract the audio from and convert to MP3. While this is rather easy – export the audio with QuickTime Pro, convert the AIFF to MP3 with iTunes – I find that even these steps are a bit too long. This is where I came upon the idea of writing an AppleScript to do all the hard work.
You do not need QuickTime Pro to use the script.
You can download the AppleScript from this link.
I find that placing the AppleScript into the Finder's toolbar puts it in an easy to drag-and-drop location. To use the script, simply drop the video file onto the script. The script will ask you where you want to save the audio files to. In the folder that you choose, there will be two folders created: one for the AIFF audio files and one for the MP3 audio files. Your final MP3 files will be placed in the MP3 folder.
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3/12/09
AppleScript Droplet to Convert Movies to MP3
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6 comments:
This is very elegant. I too have been using some multistep processes but this makes it much simpler.
It sounds like the script isn't converting the movie to an AIFF file. Is the movie playable by QuickTime?
Hi, Sorry I was trying a .mpeg file to convert to MP3, So only it is failing. It is working perfectly with a .mov and .avi movie files. :-)
Awesome! Thank for creating and posting this.
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