DVD Audio ripping

[liffy99]

Is it posible to rip DVD Audio discs ?
What is the file format (when I explore a disk I caanot identify which
are audio tracks - it may be the ones showing with a file type of
AOB).

If I can, will I be able to straem them via a Squeezebox that supports
24/96 data rates ?

Thanks

[Walleyefisher]

There is an application I use for this.

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

[tomjtx]

if you have a mac try mac the ripper...............it is free

[Nikhil]

Are you talking about ripping Audio from DVD-V discs or extracting Audio
from DVD-A discs. If it is the former, then the options from the above
posters will work. If it is DVD-A, then I think it is designed to be
un-rippable (though I hear there may be some sort of complicated
workaround using WinDVD or some such software).

I have used the ImToo DVD audio ripper to good success on a WindowsPC
(only problem is that the final files were not gapless). I recently
tried with MacTheRipper, but I am unsure how to proceed with the .PCM
files .. they seem to be neither wav nor aiff. In fact I just posted
about this last night.

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28355

N

[peejay]

Post by liffy99
Is it posible to rip DVD Audio discs ?
What is the file format (when I explore a disk I caanot identify which
are audio tracks - it may be the ones showing with a file type of AOB).
If I can, will I be able to straem them via a Squeezebox that supports
24/96 data rates ?
Thanks

I think Liffy is talking about DVD-A format discs, which the IMToo
product couldn't handle

Check out this thread. I've had no luck thus far.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27196
Cheers

[Bob Bressler]

Thank you for this thread. I have a copy of a New York Philharmonic
performance (DVD)and regretted not being able to play it on my main
system. The Imtoo Audio Ripper did a great job of pulling off a wav
file.

[Rangdo]

I'm hoping to be doing just this over the weekend (assuming my disks
arrive today).

I'm only interested in the stereo 96/24 tracks but I trawled the web
last night and got the relevent proggies ;) so I'm all set!!

[adamslim]

Post by liffy99
Is it posible to rip DVD Audio discs ?
What is the file format (when I explore a disk I caanot identify which
are audio tracks - it may be the ones showing with a file type of
AOB).
If I can, will I be able to straem them via a Squeezebox that supports
24/96 data rates ?
Thanks

There is a WinDVD hack that works well, although it's a bit fussy to
get working initially. It is, however, illegal in many countries -
depending on what fair use clauses your legislation has.

Try searching bittorrent for MLP and you should find them, if you so
wish.

[notanatheist]

I was sure I've posted this before so just in case...

DVDshrink will rip DVD-A just fine. No coversions, just pulling it to
the hard drive. Check out www.doom9.org

[Nikhil]

Post by notanatheist
I was sure I've posted this before so just in case...
DVDshrink will rip DVD-A just fine. No coversions, just pulling it to
the hard drive. Check out www.doom9.org

That's good to know. Though are you sure DVDShrink rips the DVD-A
section? DVD-As are designed to be playable on any regular DVD player
for compatibility sake, so along with the high-def LPCM layer (which
may or may not be losslessly compressed using MLP) it also usually
contains a AC-3 track - perhaps that is the one being accessed by
DVDShrink.

N

[notanatheist]

If you'd like to send me a DVD-A disc I'd love to find out for you ;-)
I've only heard from someone who has used DVDshrink for backups but
have no personal experience with it except for movies. You can't go
wrong by trying since the software is free.

[forkart]

I use yasa dvd ripper platinum to rip dvd audio to mp3 or wav. It works
very well.
http://www.yasasoft.com/dvdripperplatinum/

[RalphO]

I have used DVD Zip Lite. http://www.dvdzip.org/ very successfully to
rip the audio portion of a DVD. I don't think it was free but it was
inexpensive and has the possibility of ripping to FLAC.

[m1abrams]

Post by RalphO
I have used DVD Zip Lite. http://www.dvdzip.org/ very successfully to
rip the audio portion of a DVD. I don't think it was free but it was
inexpensive and has the possibility of ripping to FLAC.

I am pretty sure this just rips the DVD Videos audio track which is
what most of these solutions do. The OP wants to rip a DVD-Audio disc
which is a bit different.

[adamslim]

I am pretty sure this just rips the DVD Videos audio track which is what
most of these solutions do. The OP wants to rip a DVD-Audio disc which
is a bit different.

Yeah you need those magic WinDVD tools, a complete set of which can be
obtained by searching bittorrent sites for "MLP", say. Get ready for
some 300MB files though ;)

[Nikhil]

Naming the format 'DVD-Audio' wasn't one of the brightest things done by
the music industry, was it? But then they have been demonstrating
stupidity for quite a while now.

Not only have most people never heard of the format, but even for those
who know what they are talking about, you have to be extra careful and
articulate to avoid confusing it with the 'Audio' component of the
'DVD-Video' spec. To confuse things further, DVD-Audio discs also have
'DVD-Video' compatible Audio tracks!!. Perhaps they should have named
it DAD or something else.

The whole state of the audio industry baffles me. Would it have been so
hard for the SACD & DVD-A camps to kiss and make up and release a single
unified format, rather than watch both their formats dying a slow,
painful and very premature death? They could have had a single hybrid
disc that met redbook specs in one layer (unlike DualDisc which
violates redbook specs, and plays havoc with several CD players), and
had the option of high res PCM or DSD on the other layer. It would have
been so much easier to gradually transfer to a higher res format this
way. Stores would only need to keep one format in inventory, people who
don't care would have had their normal CDs, and for those who did care,
there would be a high res layer. Also this whole anti-piracy approach
seems pretty ineffectual to me. As we have all seen, the bulk of piracy
happens on low quality compressed files. So as long as the CD exists,
having a higher res format encrypted achieves little. In fact all it
does is alienate the people who would legitimately buy these products
and want to have the freedom to have access to the raw digital streams
so they could process them as they please. The industry pretty much
shot itself in the foot on this one.

I wonder what the future of Audio discs in the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD world is
going to be. With everyone's obsession with HD-video, nobody seems to
really care about audio only. I guess in some ways DVD-A will live on
in the form of MLP which has been incorporated into the Dolby TrueHD
format. And then there is also DTS-HD (which includes a lossless
specification, though it does not always imply lossless). Does anyone
know of concrete plans to release audio material using one of these
optical disc or compression formats?

On a wholly unrelated note, I hear that the Beatles Cirque Du Soleil
show soundtrack will be released both in CD as well as DVD-A/DVD-V
format on Nov 20th. I have mixed feelings about this, but I know I'm
going to go out and buy it as soon as its available. I wonder if the
DVD-V audio track will contain a lossless PCM option as well. Any
ideas?

[HipGirl]

Post by liffy99
Is it posible to rip DVD Audio discs ?
What is the file format (when I explore a disk I caanot identify which
are audio tracks - it may be the ones showing with a file type of AOB).
If I can, will I be able to straem them via a Squeezebox that supports
24/96 data rates ?
Thanks

Have all of you heard of "DVD Ripper Speedy"? I used it to extract
videos from DVDs, and then with the help of another free program named
"Free HD Video Converter Factory" to extract audio from videos. Also,
you can change the formats of your video and audio by check out the
setting button. Besides, it also allows you to download movies form
YouTube. I have used it to' download Christian songs'
(http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/tips/christian-music-download.html)
because of the profound meaning hidden in these beautiful lyrics and as
the Christmas season is coming, I also 'free download Christmas videos'
(http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/tips/christmas-videos-download.html)
with its help.


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