I have a video and wanted to extract the audio only. Video is 4 mins long give or take and is 17.3 meg I fired up VLC player, opted to convert to a mp3 with 384 kb/s and 44.1k and got a file that was ...

There is a simple way and free way to convert video to MP3. You can do this with MP4 videos, MOV, and other video formats. VLC is a free software for Mac and PC that can extract MP3 from a video file.