Movie sound Ripper..

[ranchhand]

I just had a major crash - my daughter turned every light on upstairs and then plugged in a hair dryer that you could dry airport runways with and it popped a breaker. Bottom line, I had to use UBCD to pull my data off the drive and reformat. One program the name of I can't remember was the one I use to rip sound tracks off movies. I just use it to rip the opening and credits music that I like. Drat. I think it was free, and actually had a small video screen that you could monitor where you were in the movie (or you could disable it by enabling a checkbox) and I could really pinpoint where I wanted the capture to start and end. Note that it doesn't rip the video, only the sound. I have searched this website, the software listings, everything. I'm pretty sure I got it from here, or at least a recommendation from someone here but I can't remember the name of the little program. Darn. Can anyone help me? If you don't know my program, can anyone recommend one that they like?

[Soopafresh]

http://www.aoamedia.com/audioextractor.htm

[ranchhand]

Thanks Soopa, that is not the one I had but what the heck, long as it works! Appreciate it.

[SingSing]

<--- Quite a few of them on the tool section that can do the job:

Smartripper

DVD2avi

DGMPGdec

[ranchhand]

Audio Extractor crashes every time I drag & drop a ripped movie into it and start the extraction. Maybe the program can't handle an entire movie, only small clips, I dunno. With the other free proggie I had, I just dragged & dropped the entire rip, then it had a slider bar and I could advance the scenes in the small monitor it had. I could set begin and end of the section I wanted to extract, and it saved it to MP3. I am not sure about the other links from SingSing, they seem to be mainly for ripping video with sound, not extracting sound only (unless I'm mistaken). Thanks to all. Any other suggestions are welcome.

[Ai Haibara]

What formats are the videos? For AVI, I always just used AVI2WAV, VirtualDubMod or AVIDemux, extracted the whole audio track and edited out the part(s) I wanted.

However, I just managed to do what you're looking for in AVIDemux - with the preview on, cue to the section you want. Set the A and B markers at the beginning and end of the section, then go to Audio > Save...
By default, I believe it should save the audio clip as an MP3 file, but you'll need to manually add the .mp3 extension in the save dialog.

[ranchhand]

Hello again! Ok, I have been working with AVIDemux, and have been trying to use it to extract sound tracks from DVD movies. I just can't get it to "see" the DVD in my drive-won't recognize the VOB files. Will AVIDemux only work on ripped files?

[Ai Haibara]

You'd most likely have to rip the DVD first, yes. Most editors won't work with protected DVD files.

However, I'm not sure if AVIDemux works on VOB files. You may need to convert them to MPEG (use VOB2MPEG), AVI, or another format AVIDemux will accept, first.

[ranchhand]

Thank you Ai, I think you are right. I have a wicked long drive to work, and I enjoy listening to themes and parts of certain movies. My stupid for losing that little utility in my crash, I should have had it backed up. What's that old song from the 70's? Oh yeah, Big Yellow Taxi - "you don't know what you got til its gone". However, I will say that AVIDemux may not have the slick interface the other had, but it reproduces the quality beautifully. I extracted the opening theme from Matrix and it was excellent. I then imported it into Audacity and cut out the small overlaps at the start and end and saved. Thanks again for the suggestion!

[huron]

" it was free, and actually had a small video screen that you could monitor where you were in the movie (or you could disable it by enabling a checkbox) and I could really pinpoint where I wanted the capture to start and end. Note that it doesn't rip the video, only the sound"

Try this one:
http://www.clone2go.com/products/freeaudio.php

It has a start-end time as well as a monitor screen for trimming; it is free.