Soundtracks from DVD question
 

I have a quick question. Is there a way to get a song used on a soundtrack off of the DVD?

The CD of the soundtrack of "The Secret of Roan Inish" just went OOP. I wanted to download some of the music onto my iPod. Can I still do this using the DVD? I would imagine that I can or is that illegal?

TIA!

Can't rip the dvd legally. Sorry.

I suggest ebay, half, or amazon.com for the CD.

The soundtrack is still available at: Amazon.com (used)

OK, I was hoping I could. I'll check out eBay. Thanks!

Oh thanks sooooooo much, Single104!!!!!!! I hate buying used!!! I'm ordering it today!

Actually, ripping the DVD is perfectly legal (First Sale Doctrine of the 1976 Copyright Act) in the privacy of one's own home; it is "sharing" copyrighted material that is not legal.

Could just do a manual audio recording while the dvd is playing if your using windows. Saves on to a .wav file i believe. (still legal?)

Just don't let anybody else listen to it or so help me God...

First Sale Doctrine of the 1976 Copyright Act states that the first purchaser of a copyrighted work could use it in any way the purchaser saw fit as long as copyright was not violated by illegal duplication.

The key words are "illegal duplication"...duplication in itself is not illegal. Piracy rulings have clouded the issue (and piracy is an entirely separate and different issue) until people no longer know their rights as guaranteed by fair use doctrines and reconfirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Why do you hate buying used? I've had little trouble with DVDs/CDs, and the majority comes from new. In fact, I've never had a used DVD skip..I've had three new ones skip though.

While theoretically it might be "legal" to rip a DVD that you own, the technicality is that it is illegal to circumvent the copy protection. It's kind of like how marijuana (after 1937 and before they made it "scheduled") was still legal but you had to have a tax stamp to possess or sell it and the gov't never had any intention of selling the stamp, meaning you were breaking the law by possessing it.

I have a couple of programs that allow you to easily capture an audio track from a CD but they don't work with DVDs. Is there an easy way to record a song from the soundtrack of a DVD?

Do you feel like you need some time away from the forum? -X

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=401647

HI:

In case it helps others who want to make legal use of their stuff....

I have an audio cable that hangs out of my amplifier. Anything that goes to the speakers is running to that cable as well. If I hook it into my computer I can record whatever audio is happening. That gives you an analog-only signal which is more than good enough for my needs (listening to commentaries off my MP3 player).

To record, edit and save to MP3 I use the open source software

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

As has been pointed out, breaking of CSS copy protection is illegal under the DMCA.

Case closed.

Too bad. I wanted an mp3 (for personal use) of the entire Serenity end credits music *with the acoustic Firefly theme at the end*, which the official soundtrack omits. DMCA can suck it.

In Windows... start menu... accesories...audio/sound recorder... and in settings or preferences set up the recording to come from 'Main' or 'Wave' (records basically what you're hearing), hit record, and let the credits roll my friend.

I do the exact same thing sometimes, and I LOVE Audacity. I like how I can use it to edit and save individual audio channels from a 5.1 channel WAV.

I extract audio from DVDs all the time. ac3 files, DTS files...turn'em into WAVs. No one but me hears them, no one but me benefits from it, and therefore I don't have any sort of problem with it.

Oh, I had already made what I wanted a few months back (I was using that as an example). I was simply pointing out that if I want to create a sound file for personal use, I will.

Being a film score nut, that's the primary reason why I do these things.

I even made a DTS demo CD using various 5.1 music from various film and TV shows. No one but me will ever hear it. Funny how we can't really talk about these things, as if we are all evil bootleggers who plan on raking in the bucks for things everyone has access to anyway.

Will I ever ask Canaryfarmer for the Serenity recording he did? No, never...I could do it myself (and like him, I loved that solo guitar Firefly theme at the end of the credit music)

Thanks for the info on how to do this. I have been wanting the score to Carpenters The Thing for years. It's been out of print for years, but the original dvd has the isolated score. Same with A L I E N.

How very mature. You'll be the one "sucking it" if you end up in prison.

For creating a personal soundfile that nobody else but me will ever hear? I'm not sharing it, I'm not uploading it, I'm not doing a damn thing with it other than playing it on my own machine. Prison? Come now. That's just fear-mongering.

P.S. - Admittedly, that was a pretty funny comeback, though. High fives!

Unless someone is actually copying files and selling them I'm not aware of any law that says you can't talk about DVDs (DVD Talk).

Maybe you should try reading this long-standing thread -X

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=401647

That's one way. I've also recorded the audio on a computer in digital form from a DTS music DVD by using Total Recorder. Once the DVD is decoded by the DVD playing software (which makes it legal to do since it's not circumventing the CSS) you can capture the audio stream before it gets converted to analog.

We however cannot discuss methods of cracking the CSS encryption since it is illegal under the DMCA, no matter for what purposes you intend it.