Rip the Audio off a DVD

Hi - first of all - THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE AN ILLEGAL THING.

I just want to ask you how to rip the audio off a DVD.
I got so many Music/Movie-DVDs (Live concerts of Led Zep, Woodstock, Dire Straits, Hendrix, ...) and I want to record the songs/live performances to a CD so that I can listen to it while I am driving in my car.
So far, I got along with Audacity by using "StereoMix" as input-source but you'll get quality loss there. So do you know any tools/apps that can help me there?!

peace/thanks in advance - ding

Direct line copy is one option. Just get a double-male cable, plug your headphone jack into your microphone jack, and copy away.

Another option is to rip the DVD, and then when you go to re encode the A/V stream, ask your encoder to make the audio stream separate.

Neither is perfect, but both will work.

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Some people are like slinkys...

They aren?t really good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one tumbles down the stairs.

I think DvdShrink can rip the audio stream only.
(Or if you're running linux: AcidRip)
Same thing goes for Virtualdub.

Otherwise, Audacity (freeware) can record every sound your PC plays, and encode it directly to MP3.

audacity.sourceforge.net (just set the record channel to the name of your soundcard, and it should work fine)

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Doom9 is the answer to your problems. I found this somewhere, so you can follow this guy's instructions. Remember that an audio CD is just audio files encoded with the WAV format.

You can use BeSweet. You can convert VOB?s to AAC, AC3, MP2, MP3, VORBIS(.ogg), or WAV. It looses NO quality, it works better than most audio rippers you pay for. you can download it here You need to download BeSweet v1.4 and BeLight (Both in the ?Stable? and put them in the same folder. Then you need to go the Plug-ins&Source (it is on the website) and download the VOBInput.dll v1.3 (you need this to convert VOB files) and put that in the same folder as the other 2. to start go to the folder you put everything in and click BeLight. click Input and make sure where it say?s Files Of Type, you hit the down arrow and click VOB, otherwise you wont be able to see your VOB files.

If your wanting mp3?s, click the mp3 section and specify the bitrate and quality you want (for people who dont know anything about music files, click Bitrate and move the arrow to 192, then hit quality and put that to 100%) also on the left there is a section called Boost, check the box labled Boost Mode, click start and wait for it to finish, it will be saved in the same folder as the input, unless you change that. If you rename it after it is done make sure you type .mp3 after the name you typed.

It's all freeware.

Of course, you don't want to "record" the thing, you want to rip it, it's already recorded for you!

Also, keep in mind if you have support for certain encodings (like DTS) you can rip that type of audio and have it as a music album as well. (These are sold, but they're hard to come across and rather expensive. They also have amazing sound quality since the DVD is being used for audio only.)

DVD shrink doesn't let you rip video and audio separately. (I believe this is because audio and video are actually in the same files, DVD shrink simply copies them and messes with the configuration files which hold all the copy protection)

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

go to download.com, type in "DVD audio".
there are MANY programs that will do that, I've used about 4 different ones,
but I forget their names, they all worked relatively well.