Getting Music off a DVD

[Kiwi the 1st]

Is there any way I can record the music off a DVD? And still have the quality of a soundtrack. Any help would be great.

[Buenchico]

Download Audacity:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
(You should also download the file lame_enc.dll, which is needed to export MP3 files from within Audacity).

Open Audacity and set the source (at the top right of the window) to 'Video'. Play the video on your PC. You can now record any section of the soundtrack you require, using the controls at the top left of your screen. To save the file, go to File > Export. (Don't use File > Save, as this stores the project in Audacity's own file format). Select WAV for an uncompressed (but large) audio file or MP3 for a compressed file. (The first time you try to export an MP3 file, Audacity will ask you to tell it where you've stored the lame_enc.dll file, but you only need to do it once).

Chris

[Kiwi the 1st]

Thanks for your answer Chris. Could you explain it step by step? I'm finding this very complicated. Thanks.

[Buenchico]

Thanks for the reply.

Go here for the program download:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/latest/audacit y-win/audacity-win-1.2.6.exe
Save the file to somewhere suitable on your hard drive, then double-click on it's icon to install the program.

Also go here for the lame_enc.dll file:
http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/libmp3lame-win-3.97. zip
Save the file to somewhere suitable on your hard drive, then double-click on the file icon. This will launch your 'unzipping' software (which is built into Windows XP and Vista). You'll be asked where you want to extract the file lame_enc.dll to. Choose somewhere suitable on your computer.

Go to Start > Programs and launch Audacity. Use the drop-down menu, at the top-right of the screen, to set the source to 'Video'. Insert your DVD into your DVD drive, to play the DVD on your PC. (It should start automatically). Minimise the video window (so that the DVD continues playing but you can, once again, see the Audacity window).

When you get to where you want your audio recording to start, click the red 'Record' button at the top left of the screen. (You'll see an audio trace displayed in the window). When you want to stop the recording, click the yellow 'Stop' button.

Go to the File menu. To save the audio file in an uncompressed format, choose Export Wav. However, it's probably better to save it as an MP3, so choose Export MP3. The first time you do this, you'll be asked to find the file lame_enc.dll. Navigate to its location and double-click on it.
Choose a suitable name and location for your audio file and that's it.

Audacity allows you to do far more than I've explained there but I've trie

[bazwillrun]

use a dedicated ripper

http://www.imtoo.com/dvd-audio-ripper.html

or put this into google

extract dvd soundtrack

theres tons of stuff that will help you to rip a soundtrack.

using audacity all you are doing is re-recording the audio which when transcoded with the lame encoder (mp3)will result in degradation.

[yangyang]

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