Everyone,
Realizing that DVD-Audio sounds great in the car and on my Bose home system, I'd like to avoid having to buy the same album on CD just to convert to MP3 for my iPod. I tried using DVD Audio Ripper (which works very well for concerts/comedians) but it gives me a "sample too high" error.

Anyone successfully rip the tracks on a DVD-A to MP3?

Thanks!

 

If you have a Mac you can use WireTap or Audio Hijack.

 

Sounds like you are ending up with .WAV files with a sampling rate > 48kHz. Use something like DbPowerAmp (freeware) to downsample the .WAVs to 48kHz and then convert them to .MP3.

Another alternative is to rip a stereo track from the DVD-Video portion of the DVD-A. If there's no stereo track there, then get the 5.1 tracks (most likely in .AC3, aka Dolby Digital) and downconvert them to 48kHz stereo MP3s using something BeSweet.

If you don't know what some of these tools are, just them.

Mike

 

Currently there's no way to extract the DVD-A portion of the music and be able to convert and play it in any commercial player if the disk is watermarked. All DVD-A disk should however have DVD-Video equivalent music tracks that can be extracted using DVD Audio Extractor. These are not DVD-Audio qaulity but they are CD qaulity and are thus fine for MP3 related conversion.