Trying to rip the music from Summoner 2...

I figured I may as well rip the music from Summoner 2, having been successfull with the first. I bought the PS2 game and put it in my PC, hoping to open it with VP View, which is able to read the music from the first game, and red faction (which both use .VPP) For some reason it says invalid file when I open it, and the other programs such as VPP Builder also give errors. I guess it is only compatible with the first game, which is odd considering they use the same file formats.

Anyway, I am currently trying to use Cube Media Player to rip the music, it picks up the tracks but with loads of statics and glitches etc, I hear thats because of offsets and what not.
If I was to rip the music through line-in though, thing is my PC is upstairs and console/tv downstairs, so that only leaves me with my laptop, which has one of the built in soundcards. This'll mean crap quality right? or is it not dependant on the sound card (/end dumb question)

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Na, that'll be impossible to move it unfortunately. Oh well

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That would be easier, a lot easier. I'm fine with PC rips, but have never done a console one before. I know it's a noob question but how does it work exactly? I mean the sound, does the sound card for my laptop matter when it comes to the recording, or is it all about how it's encoded, its all confusing to me. Obviously I encode the wavs fine in VBR 0, but say will there be any difference if I was to record the music from my PS2 to my desktop which has an XFi Gamer Edition, to recording from my PS2 to my laptop, which is a good enough laptop, but it has a soundMax something or other built in card. Sorry that's such a nooby question!

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Thanks for the info. My laptop is a HP 6715b, HD audio sound card etc. How would I go about doing a line in rip? I have one of those cables that looks the same on both sides, audio cable thingy, lol. Is that any use?

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OK, I just need to get my hands on one of those red and white on one end, and line in on the other cables, what are they called? I havn't seen a PS2 in ages to be honest, so can't remember the sockets etc they have, but I thought the cable goes from the PS2 to the PC, not the TV to the PC. Obviously i'm wrong

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Why is my status 'banned'? Is that what you get when you have 666 posts? Hehe.

I was speaking idiomatically.

My friend gave me a cable with one of the green ends that goes into your sound card, and at the other end are two cables, red and white pinned. Will this do?

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Sounds complicated, lol. What will they look like if I was to find them? This is if I was to connect the PS2 to the laptop, not the TV to the laptop right? Would the sound quality be any different between the two?

I'm guessing your 'rise about it' status is inspired by the Afro Celts huh? Good song

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Well i'll definately be going the PS2 - laptop route, rather than the TV - laptop route.

It is a great song, I prefer the melody in 'Rise' though I have you to thank for getting me into the Afro Celts all those years ago, thank you. Totally agree with you about the phrase too

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OK, well unfortunately I got no where with the laptop. I tried connecting the wire to the headphone and microphone port, neither picked up anything with line in selected. I'm guessing it dosn't have what I need.

Tried my PC instead, everything's fine. Bit confused about this 'peak' thing I think rippers refer to. I thought at first I needed the line in volume selected to max, but found that gave some bad quality. I had it halfway and its a bit quiet. I guess it's trial and error. This is half way. Bit quiet to me - Send big files the easy way. Files too large for email attachments? No problem!

Another thing, i'm using Sound Forge, everything correctly set etc 44.1 etc the usual settings. I save to wav, and I used to be fine encoding that to VBR with Razorlame, but for some reason it won't encode. Gives an unknown error. Everything's set up correctly :/

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Razorlame seems fine now. I'm using the 'use only custom options' option, and have it -V 0. This works, although it was set before to -V 0 --vbr-new %s %d (this was set years ago when I last used it!). Is -V 0 all I need to have in the settings box?

I'm guessing by 0db thats the max it goes up to? Like it Sound Forge it goes up from ... 9, 6, 3 then i'm guessing 0 is the top red mark? So i'm aiming just below that?

Also, when I install (got around this) and open Sound Forge it says I need .NET 1.1 installed. I have 2.0 installed, I can OK this message and carry on but am unsure on whether i'm missing out on features.

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I just had a brainwave. My MP3 player can record line in. And by that I don't mean a cheap value one, but my IAudio X5 COWON America

It can record in PCM or PAC wav, or MP3 etc but that's best dont after, 44.1 less or more, etc, so it has everything as far as I can tell. Just of course not as user friendly as if I was to record through the PC!

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Also able to set the peak left and right, ... 6, 3, 1.5, 0 ... as well as volume etc. Quality seems nice too. This'll save me moving my PC up and downstairs haha

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