ripping sound track from DVDs

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Psychopomp

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this is gonna sound strange... but here goes.

Are there any programs out there that can rip the audio track from a DVD? WHy do I ask. Well, I bought the new Judas Priest CD the day after it was released, but I bought the Dual Disc version because I wanted to see what was on the DVD. Well, my stereo amp is dead and the only place I can listen to music now is in my car or on my computer.

Therein lies the problem. This is a damn good record and I'd like to listen to it without wasting $2.25/gallon gas driving around listening. But the CD side of the disc won't play on my computer... it won't even recognize it. But it does recognize the DVD side, and the DVD has the album in 5.1 surround. So I'd like to rip the DVD audio and make a CD that my computer can play and that I can play in the car (I tend to scratch the hell out of CDs in my car).

All I can find online are trial version that'll rip maybe a minute... and that's just not gonna work.

Thanks,
Ben
 
Too bad you don't have a Mac. If you did, you could download a free application called WireTap. WireTap records any sounds that are playing THROUGH your Mac. So, you could hit the record button on WireTap, then the play button on the DVD player and when you've recorded what you want, push the stop button on WireTap. As usual, with a Mac, it's that simple. It saves automatically as an AIFF file, which could be burned directly to a CD, or you can import into iTunes, which is free and pre-installed, and turn it into an MP3, or you could open it in SoundStudio, which is pre-installed on Macs, and convert it into pretty much anything.
 
Well... seems like it's just my computer. I took the CD to a friend's place tonight and tried it on his computer, and it worked just fine... so I burned a copy there.

I've actually decided to do that with a lot of my CDs, to keep the originals in good working order. I tend to be hard on CDs in the car.

But, with all that information in musashi's post, I can make a CD from that live Opeth DVD that I've been wanting to make for a long time.

Thanks all fo r the help
 
Chiro75 said:
Too bad you don't have a Mac. If you did, you could download a free application called WireTap. WireTap records any sounds that are playing THROUGH your Mac. So, you could hit the record button on WireTap, then the play button on the DVD player and when you've recorded what you want, push the stop button on WireTap. As usual, with a Mac, it's that simple. It saves automatically as an AIFF file, which could be burned directly to a CD, or you can import into iTunes, which is free and pre-installed, and turn it into an MP3, or you could open it in SoundStudio, which is pre-installed on Macs, and convert it into pretty much anything.
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Are you telling me that I can "tape" internet radio? :eek: :eek: My life is complete!
 
Psychopomp said:
Well... seems like it's just my computer. I took the CD to a friend's place tonight and tried it on his computer, and it worked just fine... <snip>
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I was checking the format specification and it seems that the DualDisk is pushing the limit on dimesional specs. Because it has multiple layers and sides they have to increase the thickness (they are apparently about 0.3 mm thicker than standard CDs). This could cause weirdness like that.

Re: Chrio75's post: Recording that way isn't exactly optimal. I assume that it records off of the line-out of whatever is processing the sound. If you have a cheaper soundcard or use the internal logic on your mobo, you're going to be losing a lot of data. It is better to get a good rip of the raw data and go from there. It's really nit-picky, but otherwise you put it through the lossy processing twice when you could get away doing it once...

More on the DualDisk specs: I think the DVD side can be either DVD or DVD-A. So you may have to get apps to deal with both AC3 and PCM 96 (or whatever DVD-A uses) as neccessary.
 
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