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My problem is very basic, yet I find it incredibly hard to find a solution.

I have made an android app which downloads videos from a server and is then supposed to convert them into mp3, because it's for music downloads. The problem now is that I can't really find a lightweight way of converting the videos.

I have looked into a suitable ffmpeg library/wrapper already, but couldn't find a simple solution to use on the android. I'm already using ffmpeg on my windows machine, but it is console-based.

All I need to do is convert mp4 into mp3 but somehow there doesn't seem to by any simple solution to find, also I'd rather not use an external web service because I can't rely on a website to always function, while my app should.

I hope I've made myself clear, and thanks for taking the time to read this.

Bassdrop Cumberwubwubwub
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    Are you downloading a very big video file just to get the audio from it? Why not just download just the audio instead? Maybe it's not your website? – Mattias Isegran Bergander May 25 '12 at 20:58
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    *"All I need to do is convert mp4 into mp3.."* You make it sound like stripping audio from a video file on a phone or tablet (or desktop or server) is trivial. – Andrew Thompson May 25 '12 at 21:00
  • It is indeed not my website, and I do not have much knowledge on audio/video codecs and the conversion between them. Hence my question – Bassdrop Cumberwubwubwub May 25 '12 at 21:01
  • *"It is indeed not my website"* YouTube perhaps? @Pulsar made a good call on that one. The easiest solution is to find out what API the site supports for serving an MP3. – Andrew Thompson May 25 '12 at 21:03
  • It is not Youtube. It is quite similar though, just without the playback function. Basically it's just a big server with a lot of music videos. For as far as I know there's no possibility to just download MP3. If there is with Youtube I might have to take a look at that instead, it's the same concept after all – Bassdrop Cumberwubwubwub May 25 '12 at 21:07

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You can use ffmpeg in your application code to achieve this. Check this question for some directions: Use FFMPEG on Android

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