DVD Audio Ripping

Dog · Post by **Dog** » Mon May 02, 2005 8:28 am

Does anyone know of a FREE DVD audio ripping tool? I'd like to rip something from a DVD to sample and can't find anything out there that doesn't cost moolah...

memly · Post by **memly** » Mon May 02, 2005 10:13 am

I just use Wavelab to record "what you hear" through my soundcard....
I use media player or Power DVD. Dont really know if any quality is lost doing it like this, but I have also taken to doing this with audio CDs as its easier just to record the bit you want instead of having to rip the whole tune and then convert it to a wav etc etc....

contactmaker · Post by **contactmaker** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:52 am

I'm using the Im Too dvd audio ripper (version 1.0).
The one I have is shareware but it seems to have no limitations in ripping sounds. I've ripped a couple of complete dvd's with no problem.

Dog · Post by **Dog** » Mon May 02, 2005 12:24 pm

contactmaker wrote:I'm using the Im Too dvd audio ripper (version 1.0).
The one I have is shareware but it seems to have no limitations in ripping sounds. I've ripped a couple of complete dvd's with no problem.

Nah, that one wants registration before it'll work now and just playing the DVD on the PC is a no-no as it's protected and won't play...

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:56 pm

memly wrote:I just use Wavelab to record "what you hear" through my soundcard....
I use media player or Power DVD. Dont really know if any quality is lost doing it like this, but I have also taken to doing this with audio CDs as its easier just to record the bit you want instead of having to rip the whole tune and then convert it to a wav etc etc....

You do lose some quality, as the signal is being converted from digital to analog (through a not particularly good DAC), with added distortion and line noise, then converted back into digital. But if you're only playing back on your computer anyway, you probably won't notice the difference.

memly · Post by **memly** » Tue May 03, 2005 11:28 am

I thought there could be some loss of quality by doing it this way. Fortunately I really only tend to use this for vocal samples and any other "musical" samples that I want to use I have to go through the whole trauma of converting it to Wav and then waiting 10 minutes for the entire tune to load up in Wavelab.