how to copy audio track from music video on cd?

[Pharmdeity]

After installing xp media center and ripping my music cds to the hard drive I discovered that my "Cruel Smile" cd which contains a video of Elivis Costello's "45" doesn't have the song by itself as an audio track.

How can I rip this song from my cd to my hard drive and make it playable in Media Center and/or Media Player?

Thanks

 

[DaveSimmons]

:thumbsup: for good taste, but I've never tried to do this.

Advanced Search "dvd audio" might turn up something useful, this gets asked fairly often.

 

[nineball9]

There is a "what U hear" option in Windows sound control - recording options. Some (perhaps most) wav editors will let you select this and record what you are playing. Won't be an exact copy, but you'll get the song.

 

[Traire]

If you can copy the video off the cd, its pretty easy to do. You can use Windows Media Encoder to convert the file. Select to save it as a WMA, uncheck the box to automatically start encoding when you finish the wizard, then uncheck the video component from the properties/sources tab before you start converting. You will end up with a WMA file.

 

[Gooberlx2]

depending on the video type you could also use something like virtualdub to extract a wav of the audio so you could convert to whatever other filetype you'd like.