A good evening to all. Can I take a DVD of a concert and just "pull out" the music and put it on a cd for listening to just the music ??? thanks
You have options. CNET says this: Ripping audio from concert DVDs: Ask the Editors You can also copy the DVD onto CD via a standalone recorder. To do that, the CDR would have to support a sampling rate that the DVD outputs. I do not know if copy protection would kick in. (I have a CDR that defeats it, anyway.) I myself hacked through the transfer process rather inelegantly, using a variety of gear.
For what application? Listening at home? Car? Portable? Gym/running? As others posted, you can rip the tracks. Then again you can probably find the same thing on YouTube which may be faster albeit not sound as good. And if you're listening at home, way easier to just play the DVD and ignore the picture.
It's probably more of a matter of enjoying the music in the same context one enjoys all his other music.
Assuming the DVD is commercially produced, you'll almost certainly need specific software to defeat the copy protection in order to rip it. If it was a concert put together on an amateur/enthusiast level (or for non-commercial purposes) without any CSS protection, then ripping is even easier. As far as taking the audio contents and burning straight to CD, it depends on how you intend to play it back. If merely as a CD-Rom disc full of files played back in a DVD/Blu-ray player, then that will just depend on the model of your player, but the majority of them will recognise discs containing audio files. If you wanted to play it back as a bone fide CD (ie Red Book) then there's a strong chance that there'll be an incompatibility between sample rates. For the most part, 'video' audio i.e. that of DVD/Blu-ray etc is usually 48kHz (or multiples of) whilst CD is 44.1kHz. In order to do this, the files will have to be down-sampled to 44.1kHz either before or as part of the process of being burned to CD.
Perhaps not the best way to do it but I've used Audio HiJack in the past to play things back and grab the system audio as a file.
Thanks for all the help. Was thinking of buying The Grateful Dead. Downhill from Here dvd 99% of the time would just listen to the music and I have a music only stereo system that hopefully I will be slowly upgrading soon
I just play the audio into a Zoom H6, then go from there. I don't have much luck with computers, free ripping programs etc etc.
Both DVDShrink and DVDFab do this, as well as removing the zonal restriction (turns them into region O). The you can use DVD Audio Extractor to rip the songs to audio-only and burn to cd.
