DVD-Audio to MP3?

Homestar Gunner

Today I bought The Flaming Lips' 5.1 mix of At War With the Mystics. Two discs, which means I get the album itself, along with all the extra songs on the DVD.

Unfortunately, I didn't think of this ahead of time - now I'm stuck with a (very awesome) DVD that has music that I can only listen to at home. Next week, I'm going on a trip, and my iPod and I will spend plenty of time together - so how can I get this DVD-Audio disc's content into my iTunes library?

Re: nholder

You're going to need a basic DVD-A ripper. It'll just run the DVD and isolate the audio tracks (any and all of them usually), then converts the tracks to WAV or MP3. I googled "DVD audio to mp3" and lightly scanned the results... you may have to shill out some money, but I didn't look too hard.

cherv1

I'm not sure about this, I think DVD's audio can be ripped, but DVD-Audio has copy protection and it's pretty hard to do. Or that may be SACD but I'm not sure...

Barrakketh

Mplayer should be able to rip the audio for you. If memory serves me right, the basic command should be:

mplayer -vo null -dumpfile audio_track.ac3 dvd://

EDIT:

You can specify the chapter to be played by adding:

-chapter 3

and a range of chapters by using the form:

-chapter 3-8

Using:

mplayer dvd://1

should start playing the main title (on most DVDs).

AbsoluteZero

One program that comes to mind that can do this for you is TMPGenc.

You are likely only going to be able to do this if A)the disc(s) include a Dolby Digital or DTS mix and B)not entirely necessary but will produce better results... a stereo encoded Dolby Digital or DTS mix.

I own some DVD-Audio discs and the norm is for them to include a DVDA 5.1/7.1 mix, DVDA Stereo mix, Dolby Digital 5.1 mix, and a Dolby Digital Stereo mix at the very minimum.

Typically the songs will be separated into chapters, which makes things a bit easier. All you have to do is identify which chapter sets are the stereo ones and be sure to rip to AUDIO only. I know for a fact that TMPGenc can do this... and I believe there is a free (albiet older) version of TMPGenc available.... it isn't terribly user friendly, but it works.

Failing a lot of dicking around and trying to figure it out yourself... you can always check the Doom9 forums or VideoHelp.com.

AbsoluteZero

OR....

I just thought of a totally super easy way to do this.

You COULD just run TEC Sound Recorder while you are playing the disc on your computer. Essentially, the program digitally records any sounds being handled by your sound card... so all you'd have to do is press play on the DVD playing software, and record on TEC Sound Recorder. Hell, it even encodes directly to MP3. I've used it before, the quality is indistinguishable from a straight rip. The only downside is if any other program decides to make a sound while you are recording, it'll record that too!

Why didn't I think of this right off the bat?

Starfuck

So it's a DVD that you want to rip the music from or a DVD-A disc you want to rip. Getting the music off the regular DVD is actually easier than getting it off DVD-A, which is a real pain.

If it is AC3/DTS, you just use something like dvd-decrypter to rip the audio. Then you can convert them to mp3. AC3/DTS aren't lossless though, so I don't know if the quality will be degraded much.
If you have PCM, which is lossless, then you can convert to mp3, no issues.
There is also an app called DVD Audio Ripper that you can use too.
You'll have to name the files yourself too, as they are just called chapter 5 audio or whatever.

Now, as said before, if you are using a DVD-A disc, then it's a pain to do and you would benefit greatly from seaching someplace like hydrogenaudio, which if I remember right, had some good threads on it.

mooshoepork

best way to do this is to download
Erightsoft's SUPER converter. it is free, and converts EVERYTHING. Excellent piece of software. Just drag the DVD there and click output to MP3. you can even output to ipod video or whatever you would like!

Homestar Gunner

AbsoluteZero wrote: »

OR....

I just thought of a totally super easy way to do this.

You COULD just run TEC Sound Recorder while you are playing the disc on your computer. Essentially, the program digitally records any sounds being handled by your sound card... so all you'd have to do is press play on the DVD playing software, and record on TEC Sound Recorder. Hell, it even encodes directly to MP3. I've used it before, the quality is indistinguishable from a straight rip. The only downside is if any other program decides to make a sound while you are recording, it'll record that too!

Why didn't I think of this right off the bat?

I'm going to try this one first. And yes, it's a DVD-Audio disc, not the audio from a DVD.