How to convert a stereo song to mono or extract audio songs from video files.

This is useful if say you have a single large speaker like a stage monitor and you want both channels going through the speaker.

• Install VLC media player if it's not installed already. Then select
• Media from the menu at the top of VLC screen. Now select 
• Convert/Save and click on
• Add and choose the file you want. This can be a video file in which VLC will extract the song and convert it to say mp3/mp3 mono, or convert an audio track. now click 
• Convert/Save. In the profile box, select
• Audio mp3 or whatever file type you want. To the right of the profile box there is a tool button to edit the selected profile so click this 
• Tool Button. Select 
• mp4/mov if it not selected already and go to the 
• Audio codec tab. The codec should say mp3 and the bitrate should be set around
• 128kb/s but you can play with this to 320kb/s or 60kb/s depending on the size of file and quality you want. A good tip is to view the properties of a song by right clicking it and checking to see what bit rate the audio part is.. Now go to the 
• Channels window and select 
• 1. This will make the track mono. Now click 
• Save. This should bring you back to the convert screen. At the destination window, 
• Browse to the location you wish to save the new mono track but it's important that you name the file and place
• .mp3 at the end of it, for example happybirthdaymono.mp3. VLC will not put the extension file type for you. Now click
• Save and then click 
• Start.  You should see the progress bar at the bottom of VLC moving as it's converting.

Enjoy!



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