I have a music DVD that I would rather just listen to the music instead of watching it. Is there any way to just rip the music part out and turn it into a bunch of audio files like ripped CDs?

1. Get DVD Decrypter, set it to rip in "ifo mode".
2. In options, set splitting to "chapters".
3. Find the VTS (video section) that contains the show (usually has a lot of chapters).
4. Select all the chapters for the TS
5. In the right pane, select the audio stream you want (If theres a LPCM stream, you'll probably prefer that one) and set it to "demux"
6. Start ripping. You should now end up with a lot of wav-files, and a bunch of other ifo files etc. You can safely delete all but the wav-files.

Note, the wav-files are in 48khz - If you want to burn it to CD, you may want to use a tool to convert the samplerate (foobar2000 does that in a snap).

That's from the top of my head - I don't have DVD Decrypter available right now, but if you're in trouble I can update the guide to fit better later.

Edit: I forgot, that you can uncheck the streams you don't need (video, etc) to speed up processing and use less space.

There's already one here:

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/dvddec.htm

This search will provide links to many threads on this subject.

The guide doesn't explain that it's possible to split by chapters to get individual tracks

One more important point to make. When the audio streams are listed in the right pane, they have checkboxes next to them. I have found that simply checking the required box is NOT sufficient. If you just do that, then when you rip you'll still end up with VOB files. As well as checking the checkbox you must also click on the text of the audio stream to make sure it is highlighted.

Note also that if you're grabbing the audio from a normal Video DVD, the audio won't be LPCM, but AC3. So you'll end up with AC3 files, not WAVs. These may need to be converted to WAV, depending on what you plan to do with them. I use BeSweet to do the conversion.

I see. Well, it should at least save you a good percentage of the writing required.

It's a little picky about that yes, but you'll see if it's properly setup when you see the result . However, the "feature" might come in handy once in a while, if you wanted just to remove streams from the vob file.

I wouldn't extract the audio splitted, but rather then that extract it in one WAV/DTS/AC3 file. Then use Ogg chapters (created by DVD Decrypter) to create CUE or chapters in Matroska (MKA) file. It is much more practical and I can split the sound file later, whenever I want to.

Most good SW players can handle Matroska files. I'm waiting for Cowon A3, which will be the first HW player that can play Matroska (MKA/MKV) files.

This is essentially how I did it when I needed to (I went around the houses a bit though).

I used Chap2Cue to create the cuesheet from the Ogg chapters.

I rip my CDs to image file with cuesheet, so it makes sense for me to use images for any DVD soundtracks.

Yes, I can see how some people might find a use for this "feature". The reason I pointed it out was that I spent several hours of frustration before I finally found a posting on some other forum (possibly CD Freaks) that explained what's required. It really isn't obvious what needs to be done, and I thought others might fall into the same trap.

One way or another doesn't really make that big a difference. It's nice that some people find ogg chapters useful, but by ripping all tracks pre-sliced you can also in a snap createa single wav/flac/whatever with a (embedded) cuesheet using foobar2000.

Exactly: it's good to have options.

However, if I want an image as my archive it makes more sense to me to extract as an image. As pointed out in other similar threads, if the audio track is lossy then maintaining the original format - without further transcoding - is the best method in either situation.

If the source is lossless you are free to split and re-join as much as you want.- or extract one file and split.

It's nice for the OP to know the possibilities.

I think BeSplit can join AC3 files. So even if you split them, you can join them again. The best thing is to have a choice and to know all the possibilities. ;-)

Ok, I'm a noob and I'm sure this question has been asked here before, so if anyone wants to post a link to another thread that would help out just as much.

I have Xilisoft DVD Ripper Platinum, which can extract DVD audio into mp3, but it's not in VBR format. I can probably make them into any other type of file, but how would I incorporate that into creating VBR mp3's?

I've found using DVD Audio Extractor the easiest way to achieve this.

Cool man, thanks. I'll give it a try tonight and see how it works out for me. I've got a lot of DVD concerts that I want to dump down into VBR format and was looking for something to do the trick. I see that some people have claimed to use LAME in there somewhere but I couldn't figure out how to do that exactly. Guess this is just about the same thing, huh?

i want to make it too
but does they rip the speech or only the music?
often in a movie there is 5 or 6 seconds of a song

can i rip in this dvd the all track?

but can Xilisoft DVD Ripper decrypt a moden dvd?