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Audacity is a free and open-source audio editor for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
So, how do you go about doing that?

On Windows, navigate to the Edit area and select Preferences.

If you're using a Mac, it's located under the File tab.

Because we're on Windows, simply select Edit and then Preferences.

After that, we'll need to find our way to the libraries area.

We also have the lame mp3 export library, as you can see. This is incorporated into Audacity, however it isn't available if you're using older versions of the program.

There's also the FFmpeg import and export library.

However, if it is not available for you, you must click here to obtain it.


To convert an mp4 file, which is a video file, to an mp3 file, or any other audio format that can be exported, you must now add the FFmpeg library to Audacity.
And when you click on the download button, it will take you to the "installing the FFmpeg import or export library" section of the FAQ.

You'll see that it says you can import and export a far wider selection of audio formats, including m4a, aac, ac3, amr, and wma, as well as audio from most video files.

Essentially, you're attempting to use the FFmpeg library to assist you in importing video files into Audacity, and then converting the video files to mp3.

You'll need to go to this section if you're using Windows.

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