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Extracting DVD-A to FLAC files.
OK, having experienced the joy of hi-res music last night, and seeing that I can play it via my iMac without needing a pesky SACD player, I'm now trying to find out if it's possible to extract DVD-A to files which my Mac can play.
There seem to be a reasonable number of DVD-A discs available and I'm wondering if I can buy them and rip the HD audio to a FLAC file?
Views?
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I'm AMusicFanNotAnAudiophile.
There is a program called DVDA Explorer which can read the MLP files on a DVD-A disc and extract them. Google it.
I use Squeezebox to access to all 4 Hi-Res albums I have on DVD-A. Foobar2000 is equally as good.
Most music DVD's (DVD-V by definition) have 16/48 as bit/sample rate, although occasionally you'll come across one which is 24/48.
Chris
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There's DVD Audio Ripper, too, afaik.
Dimitri.
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I'm AMusicFanNotAnAudiophile.
That works fine on DVD-V stuff, but it won't touch the MLP files on DVD-A discs.Originally Posted by Themis
I've used both sets of software.
Chris
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Ah ok, thanks Chris. So DVD AR is for video audio only.
Dimitri.
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Unfortunately so. You can download a fully working version for trial, so if you're organised.......So DVD AR is for video audio only.
Chris
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Thanks, I have already DVDlab-Pro...
Dimitri.
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I'm Richard.
I've used DVD-A explorer to rip all 2 of my DVD-Audio discs. R.E.M.'s "Reveal" which ripped fine on the Mac (but isn't a very good album either in content or sound quality) and Queen's "A night at the opera" (which sounds marvellous) but DVD-A explorer on the Mac didn't want to read this one for some reason. It seems that the Mac version is a little flaky. I managed to get it to rip without any trouble on the Windows version though.
Whilst your getting into Hi-res material and if you have access to a Windows PC, check your CD collection for HDCD discs and if you have any, get hold of a copy of HDCD.exe, then rip the discs as WAV and pass them through the HDCD decoder. The few discs I have (and not all of them are marked with the HDCD logo) sound very nice indeed.
Rich
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I'm Lee.
What about HDCD on a mac?
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There is this for any Windows users:
http://www.castudio.org/dvdaudioextractor/
I think it's only for video discs too. I've used it in the past but can't remember. Let me check.
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