How to get the audio from a TikTok — free MP3 or WAV, in your browser

Step 1 — Copy the link and paste it in

On the TikTok app, tap Share and then Copy link. On the web, the address bar already has what you need. Either one works: paste it into the editor and press Extract Audio.

The share sheet hands out a short vm.tiktok.com or tt.site link rather than the full address — either form is fine, it is followed to the real video before anything else happens. A few seconds later the audio appears as an interactive waveform.

Step 2 — Drag a selection over the part you want

The highlighted region on the waveform is your cut — there is no separate in/out mode to enter:

• Drag the region's edges to set where the audio starts and ends.
• Click the waveform to seek, then play or loop the selection and check it by ear.
• Zoom in when a boundary matters — the peaks show you where a word or a beat actually lands.

TikToks are short, so most of the time the useful move is the opposite one: take the whole thing. The download menu offers the full track as well as the selection.

Step 3 — Download it as WAV or MP3

MP3 at 320 kbps is small and plays anywhere — the right pick if you just want the sound on your phone or in a message. WAV is uncompressed, which is what you want if the clip is going into a video edit or a project and will be re-exported afterwards.

Worth being straight about what lossless means here: TikTok serves compressed audio, so a WAV is an exact copy of the best stream TikTok offers, not a recovery of the original recording. Nothing can recover what the platform's own encoder already threw away.

Which TikTok links work, and which do not

Anything with a soundtrack works — a normal post, a duet, a stitch, and photo slideshows too — whether you paste the full tiktok.com address or the short vm.tiktok.com or tt.site link from the share sheet.

Slideshows are worth calling out, because they are how a lot of songs get shared. A slideshow has no video track, but the sound sitting under it is a normal audio track and comes through the same way. If your goal is the song rather than someone talking over it, a slideshow is often the cleanest source there is.

What does not work: private, deleted or region-blocked posts. If the link does not open for you in a logged-out browser tab, it will not extract either. A /music/ sound page will not either — that page lists every video using a track rather than being one post, so paste a post that uses the sound instead.

Keeping the cut, and who owns the sound

A downloaded file is yours to keep, but two other things are worth knowing. Add cut banks the current selection so you can take several pieces out of one video without re-extracting. And publishing a cut — the one action that asks you to sign in — gives it a permanent page with its own link, which is the easy way to hand it to someone else.

The sound belongs to whoever made it, and on TikTok that is often two different people: the creator of the video and the rights holder of the music underneath. Personal use is one thing; reposting, releasing or monetising what you cut needs the rights or a licence.

Cutting from a longer source instead? Cut audio from YouTube to WAV or MP3 walks the same editor on material where the trimming matters more.