

Free FLV to MP3 Converter is specifically designed to be quick and easy to use, and its small interface has all the essentials right up front: Select a Flash file, change the output directory, choose a new format, and then press "Convert." That's what we did and Free FLV did its thing.

We've mentioned that Free FLV to MP3 Converter is freeware, but as anyone who likes freeware as much as we do is aware, someone pays the bills, and that means optional downloads, which you can decline since they're not needed to run the program.

Free FLV to MP3 Converter's name only tells part of the story since it also converts Flash files into AVI files, and it even converts FLVs into MP4 videos that can play on a wide variety of video devices. The file is similar in construction to the standard Flash file (.SWF) in that it stores the audio and the video in much the same way, and just like the standard Flash file it cannot be viewed on iOS.As you've probably guessed, Convert Audio Free's Free FLV to MP3 Converter is freeware that converts the audio portion of Flash files from the FLV format into MP3s you can listen to on your phone, mobile player, or maybe even your toaster, by the time you read this. Sites wuchg as Hulu, Netflix and YouTube itself followed suit in moving to HTML5 for video playback, and in doing so almost killed off the FLV file format. In later years the popularity of the format waned, not least when Apple made a move to HTML5 as their standard file type for streaming video. Historically Flash video became the de facto file type for almost all video players in the early days of video on the Internet, thanks to the popularity of YouTube, and also the Flash plugin for web browsers, which ensured widespread support for the format. FLV files can be opened using software such as Adobe Flash Player and VLC. The FLV file, or Flash Video File, was originally developed by Macromedia, a company who were later acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.
