There's some wonderful background music in some movies that never become available on the official soundtracks, and are therefore of no commercial value.

My computer came with a pre-installed Nero Burning ROM suite v.6.6.0.5 which includes a free trial for ripping 30 audio files for free from an audio CDROM. Nero is also a good program (I'm told) for video DVD work in general. But how do I use Nero (or any other good program) to rip music from a DVD?

Thanks.

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Thanks for the heads up. I was referring to some very old movies made in the late '40s and early '50s, like "The Third Man" (1949), so I didn't think there was any copyright in them anymore. In Canada at least (where I am), artistic works over 50 years old are in the public domain.

Can you help me this far: Is Nero the right tool to use?

I bought the Third man dvd for my father. I watched it & was a good movie.

I'm not the one to ask about windows programs for that purpose. Are you trying to extract from dvd or from a downlded video file? If from dvd, then you'll probably need an extraction tool to by-pass the copy protection which stops you copying to your computer.

Thanks for answering. I'm a classical music fan, and back in those days they hired classical composers to do movie scores: Aaron Copeland, Alfred Newman and Stephen Sondheim, to name a few.

It would be helpful to know how to extract the music from a downloaded video file of an old movie.

I'm glad you liked "The Third Man" too.

Nero does have that feature in Nero Vision when you choose make a DVD there is a option to record the audio. But unfortunately I have never used it so I wont be able to help you there other than to tell you it is in the edit screen.

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If no-one can help you out here, try the Nero support site
http://www.nero.com/eng/Support.html

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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.......

To find such tools, here's a good place to start http://www.videohelp.com/
There's also a search option here to search exactly for what you're after http://www.videohelp.com/tools
BTW some of the tools are freeware, some donateware, some shareware, some commercial.