Originally Posted by imjay  Remember that making a CD of a commercial dvd soundtrack is probably a Federal Offense and that is no joke. Look at how the RIAA is treating people when they copy songs plus you will get a higher quality CD if you just buy the CD.
Legal issues aside there are probably several ways to do what you asked.
How High Fidelity do you need to have for toolin around in your car?
First thought is play the dvd on your dvd player and put sound output into your pc to record the soundtrack on your PC's hard drive. You many have a stereo input on your audio card (depends on the card) or stereo audio input on your video card (depends on the card) or you can buy an inexpensive adapter that will take dvd audio output and input to your PC.
You can capture song-at-a-time or capture as one long track and then chop it up if you care to.
I would capture the sound as wav and then open that track in timeline of one of many editing programs and then slice and dice into tracks as you care to and then render the tracks as preferred format for CD burning - .wav or mp3 or whatever.
that's a lot of work so I'd just buy the CD if I liked the DVD so much.
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Thanks for the reply. As to legality, I'm of the opinion that I have already paid to own the content, so under a "fair use" standard I should be able to repoduce it in another medium. That's probably not "strictly" true but since I don't intend to sell or give away copies, but just use it myself, I'm not too bothered by it.
I have thought of simply recording the orginal source, but was hoping there might be a more direct digital editing way to do it. Since I can make a copy of the DVD files via DVD Decrypter, I thought there would be a straightforward way to run the source files into an editor and pull out the audio tracks as MP3 files.
As to recording the audio source -- is it possible to simply connect the headphone/line out jack on PC's sound card to the mic/line input jack on the same card and have the player and capture applications run simultaneously on the same machine?
You're probably right about the amount of work involved vs. just buying the CD, but I guess I was seeing this as a nice little project to get my feet wet with digital editing, which would also satisfy a need.
What software would you recommend for someone who wants to get into digital editing of all kinds at the serious hobbyist/pro-sumer level? Is the avs4you.com stuff good for that level?
Thanks again for your input. I appreciate it.