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ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 1:53 pm
by fassyman
i seem to remember someone saying there was a way to rip the entire soundtrack from a film in audacity rather than just let it play and record the output which always sounds shit for me since i only have the in build computer speakers at my disposal.
anyone know how?
safe
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 2:26 pm
by nnny
Are you on Vista or 7? Just asking because iirc, you can only rip audio from movies/tunes with Audacity if you are on windows XP. Vista and 7 disables the feature. I remember seeing what your talking about though, I'll have a look when I'm home if nobody else has sorted you out.
EDIT: This should help you out bro, but like I said, you can't enable the Stereo mix on Vista or 7.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/fa ... =streaming
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 2:45 pm
by fassyman
im on a mac, osx. but yeah i think that drop down that would usually have the sterio mix option is grayed out. suxxxxx
cheers anyway boyo
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:11 pm
by wub
If Stereo Mix is disabled, chances are this is a manufacturer specific setting in your bios to turn it off, as it is with my Dell laptop.
You could use VLC Media Player to rip the full audio track from a video though.
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:19 pm
by fassyman
Oh aye? i use VLC any idea how one would go about doin this?
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:25 pm
by wub
Media > Convert/Save > [choose your file] > Convert/Save > Convert > [choose file type from drop down menu]
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:29 pm
by fassyman
sweet. cheers man. for a few dollars more is gonna get rinsed for percussion samples tonight
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:51 pm
by nnny
Cheers for that Wub, didn't know either of those.
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:12 pm
by OllieScott
just as an alternative, and if you wanna use audacity for mac users you can download soundflower.
Make the output of the video player/your computer soundflower
Input on audacity soundflower
hit record and play the film you wanna record
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 6:52 pm
by jrisreal
I'm pretty sure you can use stereo mix to record the sound internally. Set that as your mic input in the sound settings and then press play on the movie and record on audacity and it should work. Some computers don't have stereo mix, though...in which case you can try plugging a 3.5mm to 3.5mm aux cable from your headphone output to the mic input, probably will not work as well.
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:13 pm
by press
i use reaper to drop AVI files directly into the sequencer and cut and chop the whoel file then bounce out the good parts and use in whatever sequencer.
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:14 pm
by wizeguy
Just drag the avi into audacity wait 5 mins and you'll have the whole film as a sound file
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:28 pm
by Iorek
This will keep me busy for a while.
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:47 pm
by Redderious
OllieScott wrote:just as an alternative, and if you wanna use audacity for mac users you can download soundflower.
Make the output of the video player/your computer soundflower
Input on audacity soundflower
hit record and play the film you wanna record
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 7:33 am
by wub
wizeguy wrote:Just drag the avi into audacity wait 5 mins and you'll have the whole film as a sound file
I did not know that, nice one.
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 1:48 pm
by JFK
wub wrote:wizeguy wrote:Just drag the avi into audacity wait 5 mins and you'll have the whole film as a sound file
I did not know that, nice one.
Works in Wavelab too
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 2:49 pm
by Redderious
personally what i like to do is have a sit in my studio, launch netflix on my monitor, kick back, watch a film, and write down the exact times when i find a sample i like into a notebook. It's a lot easier than having to sift through the entire movies audio file for possibly a few good pieces of dialogue
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 5:20 am
by wizeguy
wub wrote:wizeguy wrote:Just drag the avi into audacity wait 5 mins and you'll have the whole film as a sound file
I did not know that, nice one.
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 9:40 am
by wub
Tried this yesterday, and it didn't work - just got 30s of high freq noise.
Re: ripping audio from a film with audacity
Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 9:43 am
by wizeguy
Maybe it only works on mac or something?