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I want to convert a whole folder of mp4 files to mp3. But I have no idea how to do that? But I want to keep the thumbnail. Can anyone help me?

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You don't need to do this in three steps:

ffmpeg -vn -sn -dn -i input.mp4 -codec:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 4 output.mp3

This creates a MP3 file with a VBR (variable bit rate) of 165. Check here for more options.

Arguments (beware, the order matters!):

  • -vn disables all video-streams from the input
  • -sn disables all subtitle-streams from the input
  • -dn disables all data-streams from the input
  • -i specifies the input file
  • -codec:a libmp3lame specifies the encoder
  • -qscale:a 4 specifies the quality target for libmp3lame
  • The last argument is the output-file. Note that the file-extension might be used to infer additional information.
Lukas Knuth
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