There’s a song I want (John Goodman’s cover of Viva Las Vegas, the opening theme to the now extinct “Father of the Pride”), and I can’t find an MP3 copy of it anywhere, either legally available for purchase or illegally available for download.
Is there any way for me to record it from the DVD and put it in MP3 format. If need be, I have AV inputs on my PC back home. Thx.
Go to www.dbpoweramp.com and ask them.
This is what they do. Ripping music.
[quote]BJJRaver wrote:
…If need be, I have AV inputs on my PC back home. Thx.[/quote]
Can you play it on the computer? Do you have a DVD drive on your computer? Windows?
If yes, a quick and simple route would be to use a program like Goldwave or something similar (a sound recorder where you can see the waves being recorded) to record the song while you play it from the DVD.
Then you could select and save the portion of the song you want as a WAV and use something like the freeware open source CDex (http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/) to convert the WAV to MP3. Just make sure to go into your Master Volume in Windows, select Options, then Properties in the menu, and check Master Volume, Wave, SW Synth, CD Audio, and Line-In in the “Show the following volume controls” area.
I think its SW Synth that’s important here, so that the system will pick up the sound being played, but I can’t remember for sure.
Anyway, this is useful for grabbing any sounds and recording them on your computer when you cant rip or download a file (Ex. myspace songs and other embedded players, things from dvd, online movie clip audio, etc).
Just remember that it’ll pick up any of the sounds you hear coming out of the speakers, so close out anything that ‘dings’ alot.
EDIT: Make that ‘stereo mix’ that needs to be selected under Recording in the sound properties.
This is pretty easy, go to
and download Audacity, it is free. Once downloaded, set the input to stereo capture. Adjust the volume of the dvd after connecting to the input of your computer so that the level meters barely hit the red during the loudest parts of the song.
After recording, trim anything not wanted off of the front and end of the song, adjust volume, and render to mp3. 128 is near cd quality and makes a smaller file, 396 is near true audio but is a much larger file.
PM or email me with questions and good luck.
There it is, Audacity.
That’s what I wanted to list in my previous post.
I forgot to mention the “LAME” mp3 encoder. You need this to encode to mp3. It is also free and can be found at
You can also extract the digital audio directly from the DVD, assuming your computer has a DVD drive.
[quote]senatorjaiz wrote:
I forgot to mention the “LAME” mp3 encoder. You need this to encode to mp3. It is also free and can be found at
LAME MP3 Encoder [/quote]
True. But that’s just the command line encoder. Its a pain in the ass to use.
Its better to use software that already has that integrated. I reccomend dBpoweramp.(I use it regularly and its very user friendly) It has a 30day trial available for mp3 encoding.
It uses the lame encoder and plenty of other formats like flac, acc, ogg… and etc. should you be inclined to encode in something newer and slightly superior to mp3.
Lame integrates into Audacity on the first use, Audacity asks for the location of the .dll file and you are off. From that point you only have to use Audacity to code the mp3.
[quote]senatorjaiz wrote:
Lame integrates into Audacity on the first use, Audacity asks for the location of the .dll file and you are off. From that point you only have to use Audacity to code the mp3.[/quote]
Interesting.
I use dBpoweramp for a different use. Audacity sounds great for doing individual files… but its more of a music editing program.
dBpoweramp (and other batch encoders) are good for volume. Like a whole CD.
[quote]brucevangeorge wrote:
Interesting.
I use dBpoweramp for a different use. Audacity sounds great for doing individual files… but its more of a music editing program.
dBpoweramp (and other batch encoders) are good for volume. Like a whole CD.[/quote]
Yeah, Audacity is real easy to use for small projects and such. Not really powerful enough for bigger projects though. That being said, a lot of my buddies use it for a variety of things such as encoding vinyl. Some even use it for podcasting and such, but that would drive me nuts with the limitations.
I will check out dBpoweramp on your recommendation and see if it is something that I can use in the future.
On my show and my animation work I use Sony Vegas and Cakewalk Sonar, which is a bit high end for the OP, but I need the power as I have to have reliable and intuitive stuff.
[quote]senatorjaiz wrote:
On my show and my animation work I use Sony Vegas and Cakewalk Sonar, which is a bit high end for the OP, but I need the power as I have to have reliable and intuitive stuff.[/quote]
Yeah. High end and specialized.
Using those programs for ripping some dvd-audio is the equivalent of commuting a few blocks to work in an F-16 when a bicycle could do the job.