Audio

Introduction

Audio tasks let you extract, transcode, and manipulate audio from video and audio files.

You can use audio tasks to:

• Extract audio tracks from video files
• Convert audio to different formats (MP3, AAC, WAV, OGG, FLAC, ALAC)
• Trim audio to specific segments
• Adjust quality settings

Creating an audio task

Provide a url and set kind to audio. All processing options go inside the options object.

curl -X POST "https://api.ittybit.com/tasks" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ITTYBIT_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
  "url": "https://example.com/video.mp4",
  "kind": "audio",
  "options": {
    "format": "mp3",
    "quality": "high"
  }
}'

Audio options

Audio tasks support the following optional properties inside the options object:

Format

The output audio format.

{
  "url": "https://example.com/audio.wav",
  "kind": "audio",
  "options": { "format": "mp3" }
}

Available formats: mp3, aac, wav, ogg, flac, alac.

Quality

The desired quality of the output audio.

{
  "url": "https://example.com/audio.wav",
  "kind": "audio",
  "options": { "quality": "high" }
}

Available values: very_low, low, medium, high, very_high.

Start / End

Trim the audio to a specific time range in seconds.

{
  "url": "https://example.com/podcast.mp3",
  "kind": "audio",
  "options": { "start": 30.0, "end": 120.0 }
}

Supported inputs

Audio tasks work with:

• Audio files: .mp3, .m4a, .wav, .ogg, .aac, .flac
• Video files with audio tracks: .mp4, .mov, .webm

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