Can you rip the music track from a dvd?

[Marlow]

I was wondering if you could isolate and extract music from a DVD to

A: create a music only track?

B: play movie without music?

C: play movie with alternate music?

[bobkart]

I guess you missed the Sticky Topic: https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=205836

That answers A. For B and C, extract the separate audio/video portions of the DVD (for example, TMPGEnc can do this). Then recombine them as you please when making a new DVD (TMPGEnc can also do this).

[Marlow]

I'm sorry if I sound stupid but I'm new at this.

I can demux the entire audio track with TMPGEnc, but I don't know how to isolate the music track only, i.e. the dialouge and sound fx remain but no music. Also I want to put new music over the original dialouge and sound fx.

I just don't know how to do this with TMPGEnc.

[bobkart]

Ah well that is a whole separate problem. Sorry I didn't see it in your original question. I though maybe all there was to the audio track(s) was the music to which you referred.

Separating music/vocals/sound effects is not a simple problem. And not one I've ever dealt with. Adding two sounds together is easy. But once they are added together, taking them back apart is, generally speaking, not possible. There are tricks and techniques that might be able to get you some level of satisfactory results, but it will never be as good as starting with the separate audio tracks.

Now maybe if the music and non-music tend to occupy separate tracks (say you have 5.1 audio for example), there may be a way to take advantage of that separation.

But for the general problem, think of it this way: I give you a number, say 17, and ask you what two numbers I added together to get it. You have no way of knowing I used 6 and 11. If you listen to a single audio track, and hear music, and non-music such as voice or sound effects, there is no software that can know, that for example, a vocal sound is part of the lyrics of the song, or is part of the non-music portion (the actors' dialog). Or that a horn or cymbal sound/effect does or doesn't belong in the music portion, even if it could effectively isolate the horn or cymbal sound, which is very difficult.

[Marlow]

Thank you for your reply. I understand what you're saying, but what I'm planning to do does envolve a 5.1 soundtrack. So are there any programs that will allow me to isolate and rip specific channels i.e. left, right, center, or rear?

[bobkart]

I've never done it but as far as I know most any audio editor can isolate the separate tracks.

First demux the audio portion of the DVD, then invoke an audio editor on that, and take it from there.

[Marlow]

Thank you very much. Could you recomend the best audio editor for $50 or under for this job?

BTW I already have cakewalk pyro, would this work?

Thanks again.

[Noahtuck]

You can use DVD Audio Extractor to rip the 5.1 soundtrack from a dvd into 6 seperate wav's, but that won't seperate the dialogue from the music or sound effects.
99.9% chance you will never seperate diff sound's or music from the same audio track regardless if you keep it as one complete 5.1, 2.0, ect. file or split them up into seperate tracks.