Selected ripping

[nirbhayn]

Hi
There. I am after a program which will rip a selected bit of a track instead of the whole track. e.g A song is 8 min long and i wanted to rip from 2:50 - 7:50.

Anythin like that/?

[Alex_ander]

Depending on your target format (MPEG or avi) you can use one of TMPG tools, any of them is capable of importing a range from DVD source selected on timeline. Then you either save it as MPEG2 (TMPGEnc MPEG Editor) or encode using one of the codecs on your system (TMPGEncXpress).
In both cases you have to import that track from a DVD folder on your HDD by dragging VIDEO_TS.IFO to SET SOURCE window, and select the desired range on time-line.

[manono]

If these are Vob files, you can open the Vob in DGIndex, use the [ and ] buttons to isolate the part you want from the entire video, and File->Save Project which will save the audio by default. That'll give you audio. I can't really tell if you want audio only, or cut the video/audio from the larger Vob.

If you want to cut a piece of Vob out of the larger Vob, then open the Vob in MPEG2Cut and follow the same instructions above (except with File->Save Selection) to get a piece of a Vob.

If you then want to convert it to AVI, you can open that Vob piece in AutoGK for conversion to XviD or DivX.

[nirbhayn]

SORRY GUYS COMPLETLEY ON THE WRONG FOOT.
i AM TALKING ABOUT AUDIO CD. NOt DVD tracks.

[Forum Troll]

If audio, rip the entire track to a wav, then open in any audio editor, like audacity, delete the portions you don't want then save the parts you do want into a new file.

[Alex_ander]

Most sound editors (at least SoundForge, CoolEdit, Audition, Wavelab and Goldwave) also have 'extract audio from CD' option and you will not need an external ripper.

[nirbhayn]

Yeh i just found that out. Infact in goldwave i can save just a portion of the track without going through the hassel of ripping it first to wave then cut it. only problem is that i cant do vbr mp3's.

[Alex_ander]

GoldWave needs external Lame_enc.dll, or you can use WinLame for encoding with any selectable setting.

[nirbhayn]

How to do that ?. im a newbie

[Alex_ander]

The last GW version I used demanded to put it (.dll is d/loadable from rarewares.org) either to program directory or to system32 folder, then the option to save it as mp3 was available from save dialogue with any particular setting.
WinLame is a free easy-to-use frontend:
http://winlame.sourceforge.net/
and you can first save wav in GW, then use it for encoding to mp3.

[nirbhayn]

so if i save it in wave from gw there will be no quality loss righT?.

[Alex_ander]

Yes, you'll have it as it was before recording to CD, by encoding to mp3 you lose some quality (price for reducing file size). If you want to archive it and keep quality, you can encode it to FLAC (about 60% of wav size).

[nirbhayn]

I also have some mp3 files which are vbr. i want to cut some portion of the song and then save it back to mp3 vbr. any progam which will preserve the quality after cut.

[Alex_ander]

Try mp3DirectCut (cut-edit and volume adjustment without re-encoding). I'm not 100% sure it will correctly work with VBR but it's not mentioned in its limitation list.

[olyteddy]

CDEX also has an 'extract partial track' button. MP3DirectCut can indeed handle VBR but the last frame can become corrupted, depending on the exact cut point.