Your Song Only Exists as a Video? Upload the Video. That's Enough.
November 9, 2026 · 4 min read
A video goes in — only the sound is used
The picture of your video is not used and not kept. Songbrain takes the audio track and deletes the video right away.
The short version
A video file works as an upload. MP4, MOV or M4V, up to 400 MB. No converter, no "export as MP3" first.
We only take the sound. The audio track is pulled out and the video is deleted right away. Your picture is never used.
About 40 uploads a week were turned away. That is how many uploads were video files before we accepted them.
Good sound in, good reels out. A screen recording is fine. A phone filming a speaker is not — everything is measured from the audio.
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Why so many songs only exist as a video
On a phone, almost everything ends up as a video. The camera roll has no place for an MP3. Editing apps export video. Sharing a song from one app to another often means recording the screen.
For a long time our uploader answered that with an error message. About 40 uploads a week were video files, and every one was rejected. Those artists had a finished song in their hand and couldn't get it in. Now they can.
Four cases where this helps
A screen recording. You recorded your phone while the song played in an app. It works. Record the whole song, with the phone on silent for notifications.
An export from an editing app. CapCut, InShot, iMovie and the like only hand you a video. Export it and upload that file.
An old music video or visualizer. The MP3 is on a laptop you no longer own, the video is on your phone. The video is enough.
A voice memo filmed as video. A rehearsal or a demo filmed on a phone works too — as long as you can hear the song clearly.
What happens to the file
The upload works like any other. Behind it, one extra step runs: the audio track is taken out of the video, and from then on your song is treated exactly like an uploaded MP3. The video itself is deleted immediately.
That also means the picture plays no role. Your reels are built from the song — the beat, the lyrics, the strongest moments — not from what was on screen.
When the sound of the video is bad
Everything Songbrain tells you is measured from the audio. If the audio is a phone microphone pointed at a speaker, three things suffer:
- The lyrics. Room echo makes words harder to recognise. You can correct them yourself afterwards, but a clean file needs less fixing.
- The audio score. Missing bass and background noise are measured as what they are.
- The reels. They carry the sound you uploaded. A noisy recording stays noisy.
If you can, use the file the song was exported as, or a screen recording made inside the phone. Both keep the original sound.
Made the song with Suno?
Suno lets you download your song as a video. That file works as it is — upload it here and skip the converter. More on that in how to make reels for your Suno song.
FAQ
MP4, MOV and M4V, up to 400 MB. Audio files (MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, AAC, OGG, AIFF) work as before, up to 100 MB.
Songbrain takes the audio track out of it and deletes the video file right away. The picture is never used, shown or stored.
No. The reels are made from the sound: a storyboard drawn from your lyrics, lyric videos, visualizers. If you want your own footage in a post, cut it yourself and use Songbrain to find the best 15 seconds.
Yes. The score, the lyrics and the best moments are all measured from the audio. A direct export or a screen recording is fine. A phone filming a loudspeaker loses bass, adds room noise and gives you worse lyrics.
At least 30 seconds. Shorter clips don't have enough song in them to find a best moment.
Video in, reels out
MP4, MOV or M4V up to 400 MB. First song free, no account.
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