MPEG-4 files that only contain audio track often have M4A extension, so if you MP4s are only songs you can simply rename the file extension from MP4 to M4A. If you MP4s contain movie and you just want the audio, you will have to use a proper multimedia conversion utility.
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Conversion of mp4 file format to m4a file format beta
Search for mp4 to m4a converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert MPEG-4 video file format to MPEG-4 compressed audio.
We have found 17 software records in our database eligible for .mp4 to .m4a file format conversion.
Microsoft Windows software 
- convert mp4 to m4a on Windows
MediaMonkey
A digital media player and library
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from mp4 file | Yes, MediaMonkey supports mp4 file conversion as a source file type. | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
to m4a file | Yes, MediaMonkey supports m4a file conversion as a target file type. | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned mp4 to m4a. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
Adobe Premiere Pro
A timeline-based video editing software from Adobe
Aimersoft DRM Media Converter for Windows
A DRM remover and media converter
Blaze Media Pro
A multimedia converter
Freemake Video Converter
One of the most popular and succesfful free video conversion sofrware
iPad Video Converter Factory Pro
A multimedia converter for formats suitable for iPad tablets
SUPER
Universal All Purpose Free Media, Audio & Video Converter Player Recorder
Helium Music Manager
A music library management program - renamed to Helium (version 12) and replaced in 2016
dBpoweramp family suite
A set of audio and ripping utilities for Windows
Nero WaveEditor
A free audio editor from Nero
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert mp4 to m4a on OS X
Wondershare Video Converter for Mac
Mac version of popular video conversion software
Aimersoft Video Converter for Mac
A multimedia converter software
FLV Crunch
A free video conversion utility
Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac
Universal video converting software for Mac
Tiny Audio Converter
Audio converter for Mac
Additional links: Open mp4 file, Open m4a file
MP4
An mp4 file extension is typically used for MPEG-4 multimedia files defined by ISO 14496-1 standard. Commonly used for video and movie files and supported by vast number of media players.
M4A
Files with m4a extension are audio files stored in MPEG-4 (MP4) container and use AAC (Advanced Audio Coding), or Apple Lossless (ALAC) audio compression. M4A is very popular on Mac computers, because it is default audio format used by iTunes. M4A is also default audio format for Apple portable devices (iPod, iPhone, iPad).
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