TikTok has no download button for audio, and the "save video" route gives you an MP4 with a watermark burnt into the picture — not the sound on its own. Samplecut takes the other path: paste the link to the TikTok, get its audio drawn as a waveform, drag a selection over the part you want, and download that as a WAV or an MP3.
It runs in the browser. Nothing to install, no account, and the whole thing takes about as long as the video does to load.
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 link rather than the full address — that 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 that is a video with a soundtrack works — a normal post, a duet, a stitch — whether you paste the full tiktok.com address or the short vm.tiktok.com link from the share sheet.
Two things do not:
- Photo carousels. A slideshow post is a different kind of object on TikTok's side, served through different endpoints, and there is no video audio track to pull from it.
- 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.
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 a YouTube video walks the same editor on material where the trimming matters more.
Frequently asked questions
Can I get the audio from a TikTok without the watermark?
Yes — the watermark is burnt into the picture, and this takes the sound only. What you download is a WAV or MP3 of the audio track, with no video attached and nothing overlaid on it.
Does a vm.tiktok.com share link work?
Yes. The short link the share sheet copies is followed through to the real video before extraction starts, so you can paste it exactly as TikTok gave it to you.
Why did a TikTok photo carousel fail?
Because a slideshow post is not a video: it is served through a different endpoint and carries no video audio track to extract. Only TikToks that are actually videos work.
Do I need an account or an app?
Neither. Extracting, trimming and downloading run in the browser, free, with no sign-in. Signing in is needed for exactly one optional thing: publishing a cut so it gets a permanent shareable page.