Extract Audio off a game CD

[ranchhand]

My son has Empire Earth II, and I want to rip a short audio music segment off the game CD. Anyone have any ideas? I have tried several proggies and they don't detect any music on the CD.

[yoda313]

It's not free but you could use fraps to record the video and audio together. Than you can use virtualdub (freeware) to extract the audio.

You could try audacity or other audio editors that can record the "what u hear" off your sound cards. That may or may not work depending on how the game takes over your system.

As a last resort you can go old school and hook a y adapter to your soundcards headphone out jack and hook it up to either another computer, an old tape deck, a cd recorder, or some kind of external audio recorder and record the audio as it plays.

There may be another option I'm not thinking of but one of these should work.

You may also want to do a visual check of the folders on the cd. There may be an audio folder with .wav or .mp3 files in there. And there may also be an ingame recording system. At least games like Halo 3 on the xbox 360 have that feature. Some do some don't.

Hope this gets you started in the right direction.

[SLK001]

Maybe try fraps to record the part of the game where the music is played.

[Xpenguin17]

My God... give real advice or shut the **** up. Why would he wanna record the video just to get the sound?

My son has Empire Earth II, and I want to rip a short audio music segment off the game CD. Anyone have any ideas? I have tried several proggies and they don't detect any music on the CD.

Go to Start > Run > type in sndrec32 and press enter. Have the game running and then press the record button to... record. The default max length is 60 seconds though so you might wanna record a couple seconds, cancel and then keep decreasing the speed until it expands to 5 minutes, and then record over that. When you're done you save the WAV, edit accordingly. Make sure your Stereo mix is enabled in your Windows volume settings and not turned up too high or too low. Good luck.

[Baldrick]

Calm down. yoda already mentioned that but with audacity then.

[dare2be]

My God... give real advice or shut the **** up.

Take your own advice.

sndrec32 isn't available for Vista and Windows 7 users...instead it's soundrecorder.exe. Plus you may want to go into the issues of getting the disabled stereo mix to work in windows 7...for some it just requires enabling the hidden device, for others it requires sound driver updates/downgrades to vista drivers...and then even for others you need something like the "virtual audio cable"...which costs $30.

[jman98]

Calm down. yoda already mentioned that but with audacity then.

Really? "Calm down" is your reply to that bs?

I got threatened with expulsion for making a negative comment about Australia a few years ago and was forced to apologize to stay on the boards but it's OK to tell people to "shut the **** up"?

Absolutely awesome, Baldrick. Awesome.

Since you're letting anything go...

Hey Xpenguin17 - consume feces and perish.

[Xpenguin17]

My God... give real advice or shut the **** up.

Take your own advice.

sndrec32 isn't available for Vista and Windows 7 users...instead it's soundrecorder.exe. Plus you may want to go into the issues of getting the disabled stereo mix to work in windows 7...for some it just requires enabling the hidden device, for others it requires sound driver updates/downgrades to vista drivers...and then even for others you need something like the "virtual audio cable"...which costs $30.

My bad, I guess I didn't spoon-feed instructions to people like I always do. The Windows sound recorder is the most readily available method for anyone that doesn't feel like downloading a bloated, professional Sound engineering app, or badly-written open-source shit like Audacity just to record a short tune off a game once a year. If the OP isn't on XP, I'll be glad to spoon-feed Win7 instructions, but not that disfunctioning piece of shit Vista. I give you my word. Now get off my dick.

Really? "Calm down" is your reply to that bs? I got threatened with expulsion for making a negative comment about Australia a few years ago and was forced to apologize to stay on the boards but it's OK to tell people to "shut the **** up"?

I do recall the forum rules forbidding political discussion, not sanctioning a poster that goes out his way to make himself useful and give a real solution to someone's problems. Some of us are sick and tired of morons giving bullshit advice just to boost their post count or whatever personal gain they get for posting on a public forum for free. I guess Baldrick shares my annoyance.

Hey Xpenguin17 - consume feces and perish.

But without me you'll have to consume the feces of run-on moronic posts from dipshits that will tell you to spend 2 hours configuring some retarded program that all the cool people nowadays use and in the end you've barely solved your problem and hardly discounted all the intermediate technical bullshit you had to deal with during following the crux of their shitty advice. Your choice. Baldricky knows what's best it seems.

[johns0]

Thread closed due to unneeded language and insults,thread is open again.

[themediaman]

All help is surely appreciated, from who ever wants to give it....................