When you say "BACKGROUND MUSIC" are you wanting to get music but not dialouge? If this is the case you may not be able to do it, it will sound just like the dvd movie.

Also...The links that "Lord of the Rings's" provided are helpfull there is a lot of good information.

Hmm, I've been around for some time on another forum, 'afterdawn', (though I've only once posted there) which talks a lot about Nero. From what I've read there, the Nero support would be the last place you would like to ask for help. They are well known for being unsupportive, to say the least. since I'm not sure whether a link to another forum is appreciated here, I reckon to search for "afterdawn" and read their threads.......

The way I'd do it on the mac ... there's a few programs that can do the job. 1st step would be to extract the dvd contents to HDD. Then I'd use another program to separate (demux) the files -> separate the audio & video files. In which case you'll probably end up with several ac3 files. Or my utilities also have the option of extracting the audio & converting to AIFF. From there I can then use an audio editor to convert from 48 to 44.1 kHz. Then do as I wish such as convert to mp3 or whatever.

Wow! That's a whole bunch of good help and fine suggestions!

Thank you very much everyone, much appreciated.

I'll look into these and report back if I get anywhere.

One of the things I'll be doing is to try to figure out which is the method with the least number of steps. It's not that I'm lazy, but I don't want to devote tons of hours to doing this.

Thanks again, to each of you who posted.

What an amazing amount of expertise you've all gathered. Be Proud.

Bests

Yeah, I'd love to find a way to extract only the music without the dialogue. But there are many fine bits of music on many old movies that are dialogue-free too.

there is no 'simple' way to do it...

as noted by LOTR, yur gonna have to rip the files to HDD, separate the audio from the video (demuxing), convert sample rate from 48 to 44.1, then locate the audio you want, edit out everything but that, then save to disc as an audio file...the manual editing of the source file is gonna be the biggest PITA

I think it is impossible to extract the music and not the dialogue...Any one know of a way to do it then tell me!

I thought perhaps you were wanting the main theme music at the beginning or end of the movie. Well ... you could try extracting as ac3 & that will extract into the various ac3 channels (each in separate file.) Then take the left & right since the speech (or much of it) will most likely be in the centre channel. But there's no guarantee that will be the case. But then you need a program that can open & convert ac3 files. I have on the mac. I believe I read recently there's equivalent ones for windows. Google ac3 conversion. But separating dialogue from music if necessary is well ... is it worth the effort. What parts include dialogue could be replaced with parts that don't but are identical music sections if by chance the music repeats. Sounds like a big job for little reward.

Good point LOTR, i myself have never needed to extract audio without dialogue and i dont think i will wver need to. I have never heard of ac3 so i am going to google it now!!!