Sometimes we want to hear only the audio from a DVD without watching the picture. This is common with concert DVDs, that we may also want to have in the format of audio CD, so that we can hear more easily. The tools we are going to use are DVD Decrypter with which we are going to rip the audio from the DVD, AC3Filter and Goldwave that we need to convert the audio to wav, create the tracks and maybe normalize the volume. You can find the first 2 in our downloads database, to download a free trial of Goldwave click here.
A few words about Goldwave. Goldwave is the only program in this guide that is not freeware. However there is shareware version and you can try it out. Goldwave is a very good editing program and very cheap also, so I suggest that if you want to do some basic editing, you get it. Let's start with the guide now!

First of all we are going to use DVD Decrypter. Open it and select Tools -> Settings.

Click the IFO Mode tab and there enable stream processing (1) and disable file splitting (2). Click OK and return to the main window.

Here first of all select the IFO mode (1). Then select the main move PGC (here only 1) (2) and click the stream processing tab.

Here make sure that stream processing is enabled (1). Then select only the audio track you want to rip (2) and with that selected select Demux (3). Start the ripping and you are going to have an .AC3 file that we are now going to load in Goldwave.

Make sure you have AC3Filter installed unless Goldwave will not load the file. Now go File -> Open. Select All in file type (1) and then load the AC3 file (2) and click Open.

Goldwave will decompress the audio file and then load it in the main window.

The first thing you should do is to save it in a wav format. Go File -> Save As.

Save it as a Wave file.

Note that this is not necessary, but Goldwave will edit a wave file much faster.

Next thing will be the creation of some Cue Points so that we can split the file in tracks (of if you don't want you don't need to do it!) From the Goldwave menu go Tool -> Cue Points

Now here if your DVD has pause between the tracks you can use Auto Cue (2) and it will find them. If not you have to find the point you want and click New (1). After you have created all the cue points click Split file (3).

Here set the file name you want to use (1) select checkbox (2) and finally OK (3) to create the files. After you have done that you can burn with the burning program of your choice, I use Nero.

Of course you have to eliminate the gap between the tracks in order to make a great CD. Just select them, right-click and select Properties, and there set the Pause to 0 seconds. Then burn and you are ready! If you need a more detailed guide for Nero, you can find a guide here.

Comments (28)

It worked fine for me! Thank You!
written by DexterLabs, January 29, 2006

I used your tutorial to rip myself some wav files from the dvd (some remixes). Just wanted to say thanks!

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Rip audio from a DVD to Audio CD
written by Derbent, February 11, 2006

what about if you want to use DVD movie audio, for example I want hear only music without conversation
can Goldwave edit or turn off the conversaton in dvd movie and listen entire movie with editing

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It works great thank you
written by Darksoul, May 22, 2006

It sounds perfect thank you

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Problems
written by DJStar, June 01, 2006

Hi! I've now ripped a DVD, but I can't get to open it in GoldWave. It says "Floating point division by zero." Hmm...

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Problems Ripping Audio from a DVD
written by AudioDVDguy, August 19, 2006

I follow your guide How to rip audio from a DVD to Audio CD,first time I used it it work ok after many attempts, The problem I discovered was the AC3 filter had to be open in just residing on my computer,
My question is, I have tried it again and now it is not working, I have the AC3 filter application open with no changes but I still keep getting aa MPEG file and not the AC3 file. HELP..... I'm very happy I did one DVD but am now stuck. What am I doing wrong?
Here is the file name that was correct"VTS_03_1 - 0x80 - Audio - AC3 - 6ch - 48kHz - DRC - English - DELAY 3ms.AC3"
Here is the incorrect"VTS_02_1(1)"
Is there a spefic order the DVE Decryper,ACE filer and Goldwave need to be opened?
Are there setting on the AC3 filter that I need to change?
How do I know the filter is working?

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works great!
written by sh2kus, August 23, 2006

Regarding the splitting of the wav file in tracks (see step 7 above) I found that GoldWave can help achieving an exact split manually much better than the auto cue feature. See the Goldwave manual on how to select a piece of audio and then copy it into a separate wav file.

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ripping audio only problem
written by steve70s, November 06, 2006

hi all

for some reason when I select the AC3/2ch wav and then enable streaming, it sticks on video streaming and does not change to audio.

what am I doing wrong?

thanks in advance

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Problems Ripping Audio from a DVD 2
written by LegrandGabriel, November 26, 2006

I follow instructions you give in "How to rip audio from a DVD to Audio CD", but the problem is that the AC3 files created laste only a part time of the single. In fact I can only hear or read the first "cell" of the first "chapter" however, when the computer is ripping a single all "cells" come out. I don't understand why I can't get the hole audio file. I'm embarassed.
Thank you.

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no ac3-option available - why?
written by Crazzie, January 03, 2007

In my DVD Decrypter is no ac3-file option available. It converts the DVD-audio into something completely different. Where is the problem?
I'd be grateful for help.

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Works but now im stuck
written by Napo, March 15, 2007

Hello i followed your instructions step by step
and i got to rip the audio from the dvd but im not
sure why it doesnt open in GoldWave, when i import
it, i only get a black box and if i export it i get
an empty file. if i import an mp3 it works fine,
i think it riped the sound file as a .vob file as
it opens in a video viewer program. Please
help.

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Works Great! Thx!
written by EdC, April 05, 2007

Comment to Napo...I think on the above Step 4 item 2, you must not have highlighted the correct audio track, or didn't select Demux, because I got a .vob file at first like you have. But after ensuring I highlighted the correct track, I got the .wav files. This procedure works great...Thanks so much for posting it.

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stuck! please help.
written by moneyguy18, April 10, 2007

I think i have ripped the audio track from the dvd, but when i got to goldwave and open file, the only available files are from the video itself. i can't locate the file i have just ripped? anyone have the same problem or solution?

thanks

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audio file rips at 48k, not 44.1k
written by alcratin, April 16, 2007

if you're ripping the audio and convert it to mp3 right away, your mp3 player may not notice but if you rip it to wav and want to play it in a cd player when you burn the file, don't forget to resample the audio from 16bit 48k to 16bit 44,100. I used Sound Forge to resample the track, it has a 30 day free trial.

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stripslashes
written by me, May 06, 2007

Lovely tutorial! You might want to look at the stripslashes function in PHP to remove the "s from the comments.

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written by rdnaski, September 28, 2007

Finally a DVD to audio guide that uses programs that actually work. Music sounds fine. I have been searching for months to try and get a .wav off of a DVD and I want to say thanks.

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written by Led_Zeppelin, September 28, 2007

I ripped a wav and mp3 file from the dvd however when I play the files they sound like the audio is at half speed or something, really messed up slowed down singing well gutted, any idea's what Im doing wrong please? Thanks

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thank you
written by leetsauce2099, January 19, 2008

this guide is perfect.

THANKS.

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Thanks!!
written by mppsp, February 04, 2008

Just used the guide Step by step..Changed it into an MP3 instead but it worked beautifully! Thanks!

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Another thanks!!!
written by mouseak, February 29, 2008

This works like a champ! Nice work, folks...

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Great! But I split the Chapters for more audio files and used NERO
written by marinegundoctor, March 16, 2008

I combined this guide with http://club.cdfreaks.com/f109/...de-139536/ .
The other guide had some useful tips as well, and I wanted to use Nero since I have that already.

The other guide suggested to set the auto file splitting to 'chapter' to create a separate file for each chapter. This was useful for me because I wanted to make an audio version of the movie "The Gospel of John."

Great Guide and Thanks!!!

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IT WONT WORK
written by Jimnutbag44, April 29, 2008

i tried it but by the time a get to goldenwave it doesnt come up with the file all is it shows is my videos

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AAAA THANKS!!!
written by rpm, April 01, 2009

I downloaded the software and followed the given steps. I had no idea of what I was doing as I did it but it worked well. I did have to figure out how to use Goldenwave to do some fine trimming of the single track I wanted and adjust the audio volume. Afterward, I converted the .wav file to a compressed .mp3 file and saved it as such. The track plays just like any other song ripped from a CD or .mp3 download. THANKS!!!

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Thank You
written by GPS Rider, May 23, 2009

Helped me rip some nice ringtones for my G1. Thanks!

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written by sem12815, October 02, 2009

i followed your instructions ripping audio from a dvd and i could confirm those ac3 files extracted were located on my hard drive. however, when i try to listen to one of those, no sound occurrs. please help me out.
thank you

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Fulld DVD Problem
written by Juananton, October 26, 2009

Everything following the tutorial worked perfectly. However, I have some DVD that are not ripping fully. In other words, the length of the DVD was suppose to be 1:30, and is only downloading 1:05. I tried to download the las track individually, but the file came as an empty file. The DVD works fine, if I played in a DVD player.

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only ripping the AC3 audio stream
written by WoLfMaN, November 26, 2009

Thanks, that tutorial worked perfectly.

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AC3 filter
written by Enric, January 05, 2010

Where can I download AC3 filter? I couldn't find it in the 'Download' section.

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Language of Audio Stream
written by Gabster, January 21, 2010

Hi there,
I wonder how I can quickly determine from a Movie DVD which Audio stream is which language.
I would like to convert a DVD (which has multi language selection in the menue)
into 2 seperate AVI files so that I have one in english and one in another language.
I use DVD decrypter to rip the dvd and AutoGK to convert to AVI. It works fine just that autoGK only shows the different streams of language but not actually which language is in which stream.
Thanks for any hint.
Gabi

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