Tools for extracting audio from avi

[Yukimura]

Before downloading every shareware program with "avi to xxx" I can find I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions about what programs are good for pulling the audio out of an avi. I'd prefer to go straight from the avi to an mp3 but I have a wav to mp3 converter if the best tools only do avi to wav.

[Kraco]

I once tried to drag'n'drop, almost by accident, an avi file to Goldwave, and it worked perfectly. Though it was a while ago, and before an XP reinstallation (or two), so I can't tell exactly what my codec situation was back then. Right now I don't have Goldwave installed (haven't yet reinstalled after my latest XP reinstall), so I can't run a retest. But it's worth a shot. Goldwave is a jolly good program in any case.

Well, you could also of course use a program like BeLight (a GUI for BeSweet). It would be a program exactly for the purpose you described, unlike Goldwave which is, after all, a sound editing program, not a ripping program.

[darkshadow]

Xilisoft Video Converter, not only is it one hell of a video converter, it should also be able to save just the audio of the file, you can even set the start time, and duration of recording, for if you want a specific part.
I've never used it for audio myself ( i use creative wavestudio or mediasource player for audio stuff, but that came with my audio card), but it gets the job done for video, should work fine with audio too.

[Deadfire]

I personally use Audacity. set it to what ever my soundcard is outputting and press record. After save as MP3. It's not as feature-full as what DS is suggesting but it's simple.

[complich8]

for an avi? Use virtualdubmod. Load the avi, hit streams->stream list. Pick the stream. Click "Demux". Save it. You're done.

[Kraco]

When I tried for the first time to extract the audio from an avi container, I tried virtualdubmod, but unfortunately I didn't possess the wits to use it for the process... Well, it's not like I'm totally computer illiterate and I've used a variety of programs, some of them quite special and amazingly poorly documented. Based on that experience virtualdubmod certainly wasn't the most intuitive.

Although for my own defence I have to say terms like "demux" wouldn't have meant anything for me back then. All the better to hear how it's done with it, though, now.