#audio

Pull the sound track out of any video file and save it as an MP3 with one FFmpeg command.

Scan, pair, trust and connect Bluetooth headphones from the terminal using bluetoothctl, then route audio through PulseAudio or PipeWire.

Extract just the sound track from an online video and convert it to MP3 in one command, with best-quality VBR encoding.

Turn M4A, WAV, or FLAC audio into MP3 files from the terminal with ffmpeg's LAME encoder.

Transcode any audio file between MP3, M4A/AAC, WAV, FLAC and more from the command line.

Cut a section out of an MP3/WAV audio file between two timestamps directly from the command line.

Save a video's audio track to its own file instantly by stream-copying instead of re-encoding.

Pull the soundtrack out of a video file instantly and losslessly using ffmpeg's -vn stream-copy trick.

Silence the system microphone from the terminal with pactl set-source-mute — a quick hardware-adjacent privacy switch for calls and screen sharing.

Even out the volume of MP3 files so they all play at a consistent loudness using the loudnorm filter.

Boost or lower a video's audio track with the FFmpeg volume filter while the video stream is copied untouched.

Produce a silent copy of a video by dropping its audio stream without re-encoding the picture.