AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave, a common video format that is introduced by Microsoft in 1992. A widespread and low-compressed video format, it contains both video and audio content for playback. In this case, though it is good for the video quality, it isn’t user-friendly for storing the AVI files on the devices with lower storage. Sometimes, you may need to extract the audio only for less storage and listening on audio devices. And MP3 would be the most commonly used audio format. If you have some AVI video files and would like to extract audio off AVI video and save as MP3, you can find a solution here.

Part 1: How to Convert AVI to MP3 with Leawo Video Converter

Leawo Video Converter offers effective solutions to help you handle both video/audio conversions and video to audio conversions on your computer in some simple clicks. It is a professional video converter program that could be used as an AVI to MP3 converter for easily extracting MP3 audio off AVI videos. If you just get some AVI videos on your computer, and you’re planning to get MP3 audio off these AVI videos, and, you’re looking for an easy and effective solution to do so, this video converter would be of great help to you. Mac users need to switch to its Mac counterpart for converting AVI to MP3 on Mac.



After downloading and installing Leawo Video Converter on your computer, you can follow the guide below to convert AVI to MP3 on your computer.
Step 1: Import source AVI video files
Kick off Leawo Video Converter to enter the main program interface, and click “Add Video” button on the sub-menu to load your source AVI video files or drag the files to the program directly.

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Step 2: Set MP3 as output format
Click the drop-down box next to the “Add Photo” button. On the drop-down list, select the “Change” option. Then on the popup Profile window, select “MP3″ from “Format” column as output format.

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Note: If you need, you could click the “Edit” button on the drop-down profile setting box to adjust detailed audio parameters including audio codec, bit rate, channel, and sample rate.

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Step 3: Convert AVI to MP3
Click the big green “Convert” button on the sub-menu bar next to the format setting drop-down box. Then, on the popup sidebar, set output directory. After setting the output directory, click the “Convert” button right below. Leawo Video Converter would start to convert AVI to MP3 immediately.

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Part 2: How to Convert AVI to MP3 with Online Video Converter

Except for Leawo Video Converter, you may also want to find some more free solutions to convert AVI to MP3. And some online video converters could be worth a shot.

Zamzar

Zamzar is a free online converter that works for video/audio conversions between almost all the video and audio formats. And it is claimed that it supports over 1200 formats and has converted over 400 million files since it was first introduced in 2006. It is amazing that this online converter cloud is an AVI-to-MP3 converter that easily converts AVI to MP3 within simple steps. After you enter AVI to MP3 converting page, follow the guide below:
Step 1. Click “Add files” to upload an AVI file to the website.
Step 2. Click “Convert Now” to start converting AVI to MP3.
Step 3. The converting process will not end until a download link appears. Now click the link to download the converted MP3 file for listening.

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Pros:

Cons

Free of charge for files in less than 100M.
Easy to use.
Many formats supported.

A free version is limited in video size.
Working speed depends on the network.
Very high cost charging on file size.

 

CloudConvert

ClouldConvert online converter can also be used to convert AVI to MP3. Besides, it literally supports over 218 formats in total and allows you to convert any audio including M4A, WMA, WAV, etc. or video like MP4, AVI, etc. to MP3 for only listening. It claims that the conversion would be done with the highest quality and the encoded VBR of the output MP3 file can be preset and changed as well. By using the online converter, there is no need to install any software on your computer. You can just upload your AVI files to CloudConvert and then Start Conversion, the online converter will make it automatically. Moreover, it can keep your uploaded files safe and allow only you to access them. It is alleged that the upload file will be deleted right away as soon as your conversion is finished to guard your privacy.

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  1. MP3Toolbox

MP3Toolbox offers a completely free online service for converting your AVI to MP3 in no time. By using this online converter, there is no need to download any additional stuff. It is easy to use and works quite fast. You can just click “Pick AVI” to browse and upload an AVI file to the website, and then, after seconds, the conversion completes. Now you are able to download the MP3 file directly or get your file on your phone by scanning the QR Code or share it to some popular social media.

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Pros

Cons

Free of charge.
Save converted files to cloud.
Safe and easy to use

Maximum 1GB file size
Maximum 5 concurrent conversions
Low Priority

Part 3: How to Convert AVI to MP3 with iTunes

Are there any other useful ways to convert AVI to MP3 in addition to using the official Leawo Video Converter and free online video converters? Definitely yes. You should know that the popular app iTunes could do this for you as well. Generally, iTunes is mainly well-known for playing multimedia files, and it has been capable of converting AVI files since its recent versions were introduced. However, the original video content of the AVI file will be permanently erased by using iTunes to extract MP3 off AVI video file. So, it is necessary to back up the video before the conversion.
Now you can just follow simple steps to convert AVI video to MP3 audio with iTunes.

Step 1. Start iTunes and then go to its top menu, click Edit > Preferences.

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Step 2. The preferences setting window will pop up. Now click on the “Import Settings” > “Import Using” > “MP3 Encoder”, and click Ok to confirm the settings.

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Step 3. Go back to the iTunes library and choose an AVI file that needs to be converted to an MP3 audio file.
Step 4. Go to the top menu again and click “File” > “Convert” > “Create MP3 Version”, now iTunes will extract the audio inMP3 from the AVI file.

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Part 4: How to Convert AVI to MP3 with VLC

Except for the powerful iTunes, you can also convert AVI to MP3 with the wide-used VLC player. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that can play most multimedia files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols as well. It is so popular not only for its wide support of the video files but also for extracting audio from video files. If you already have installed VLC on your computer, you can easily convert AVI files to MP3 in easy steps.

Step 1. Launch VLC and then navigate to the menu bar, click on “Media” > “Convert/Save”. Alternatively, you can also have access to the option by using the keyboard shortcut “CTRL + R”.

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Step 2. Now a window for “Open Media” will pop up. Click “Add…” button to browse and import the AVI file you want to convert to MP3 into VLC.

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Step 3. When the AVI file is imported, hit the “Convert/Save” button to enter the Convert window. And then select “Audio – MP3” in the Profile drop-down list and change the destination location if necessary.

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Step 4. Click “Start” to begin converting AVI to MP3. And the conversion process will be completed soon.

All in all, there are several useful video converting tools mentioned in this post for converting AVI to MP3. And almost all these video converters have their own pros and cons. Online converters can work easily and quickly for free when the video files are in limited size, but it also costs more when you want to convert larger AVI files to MP3. Comparing to those online converters, Leawo Video Converter can convert AVI to MP3 in a bundle without charge and it allows you to edit the parameters of the output audio. Additionally, it is more advantageous because it can work offline. iTunes and VLC are amazing video players as well as video converters to some extent. They are not professional in conversion but sometimes you can make use of them for some urgent moments.