Extracting music from DVDs

I've heard a lot of things about people being able to extract music from PSX, PS2 or PC game discs, so is it possible to do the same for DVDs?

The only helpful info I've come across so far is a quote in this topic:

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PSound again, it doesn't "see" DVD's but it can still read audio.dat files and similar types. I used this program to get the music and voices from Bloodryane. It doesn't alway get the interleve right though so audio can sound messed up.

So if I can extract music, is there any sort of tutorial somewhere on how I can do that, and also to convert those extracted files to WAVs? I've never done any music extracting before so I may need recommendations on what programs to use. Thanks in advance.

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For extracting audio from dvds I use this program. It's all very easy to use and it can output the audio in WAV for you. You can rip audio by chapter or set a custom timeframe.

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I tried out the program, but I'm actually looking for a way to rip music without having SFX or vocals included. Thanks for the suggesstion though.

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If that's what the audio track is like I don't know how you're going to be able to rip only the music. It might be possible to get rid of some of the frequencies in editing though, I don't know. But I'm pretty sure you'll have to rip the track as it is, first.

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I once did a rip of a DVD that had a normal 5.1 audio track, which I then split up in multiple tracks, one for each signal: left, right, center, left surround, right surround and LFE (low frequency). I use Cool Edit Pro as it has a very good multi-track editor which let me isolate each track in a separate WAV file.

I was then able to isolate the music with sound effects, but without voices. Normally, as the sound effects are embedded in the left and front signals, there's no way to physically extract only the music, except if you have a music-only audio track available, which only a select number of DVD's have.

As for the procedure on how I did it, I would have to look up the what and the how, because it's rather complicated and it took me a lot of time and work to get the result I wanted.

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Originally Posted by Blue_Kirby2

I tried out the program, but I'm actually looking for a way to rip music without having SFX or vocals included. Thanks for the suggesstion though.

First, face it, without extensive audio editing work, ripping music from DVD without SFX or vocals is impossible. That said, DarkElf is on the money about how to actually do it (as nothing is truly impossible ).

Now, the best way to do anything with DVD's is check Doom9.org and learn what you are doing in their guides section. Secondly, custom use DVD Shrink 3.2 to get the files you want onto your hard drive, and use DGIndex to seperate the audio file from the video file. Next use BeLight to convert to whatever the heck you want (assuming you have a MP3 encoder like LAME, NeroAAC, or other types). This is the easiest, highquality, FREE way to do what you are asking.

BTW - I use this method ALOT and it works great!!

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I somehow figured ripping without SFX/vocals was impossible anyhow. Thanks a lot for the help though, I'll try this out sometime, even though I've been extremely busy lately.

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