[X4U] Re Extracting audio from DVD (Vol 1, Issue 11)

[Crandon David]

Thanks for the info...that also brought another thought to my mind...if 
I simply record the audio, I won't have any track markers...hmmm.

David


On Sep 19, 2004, at 6:24 PM, Smith, Steve (EPA) wrote:

> I recently used 'WireTap' (free download from Ambrosia) which will 
> record
> any audio being played on your Mac, and it worked very well.
>
> It was a bit of a slow process as I wanted to be fussy about the 
> tracks that
> I wanted to copy and didn't want too much applause and so forth at the 
> start
> of each audio file, so I did each track separately. Just lined up the 
> start
> of the track on the DVD, hit pause ... hit record on 'wiretap ... then 
> hit
> play on the DVD or something like that.
>
> I think I then imported the tracks into iTunes to convert them to MP3s.
>
> Noticed just a little bit of clipping on the final tracks which might 
> have
> something to do with the the volume level of my eMac .. next time I 
> might
> ease the volume off to half or slightly more .. not too sure though.
>
> Don't know what else is out there but it was so easy with WireTap that 
> for
> my purposes I don't think I need to use anything else.
>
>> From the Ambrosia Web Site ... 
>> http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/freebies/
>
> "WireTap 1.0.0
>
> WireTap is a free product for MacOS X 10.2 or later that allows you to
> record any audio playing on your Mac, saving it to a file for later
> listening or processing. This allows you to record news from Internet 
> radio
> stations such as the BBC News, sound snippets from your favorite DVD 
> movie,
> record the audio from a game, or even iChatAV conversations.
> WireTap works using a simple tape recorder-like interface. Simply 
> click the
> record button, and any audio playing through your Mac will be recorded 
> to
> disk. WireTap can record any sound that is playing regardless of the 
> source,
> so RealPlayer, iTunes, DVD Player, Windows Media Player, etc. are all
> supported.
>
> The technology in WireTap will be coming to a future version of our
> video/screen capture product Snapz Pro X. WireTap is a completely free
> product. Discussion about this application can be found here.
>
> You can also download WireTap from a mirror, if the server is busy 
> (remind
> me never to say "free" again ;)."
>
>
>
>
> Steve Smith
>
>
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:53:00 -0700
> From: Crandon David <tabdave at comcast.net>
> Subject: [X4U] Extracting audio from a DVD
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> Can you guys tell me what is the best way to extract audio from a DVD
> to then record to a CD.
>
> I have a DVD of a concert where I would like to burn the music to a CD
> to be able to play in my car. Can this be accomplished with DVD Player
> or Toast or iTunes or perhaps AudioHijack?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Crandon
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