Just downloaded and installed using Windows XP and did a test clip of 6 minutes, and it works great. Good quality audio.

As far as uses, my wife has been wanting me to get a program that has this exact function for quite some time. You can grab the audio tracks of your favorite movies and load them onto an MP3 player, allowing you to listen to the movie when the ability to watch is not available. All in all, a decent enough program. Thanks GAOTD.

RE: Posts #7 and #9:

Agreed on all counts...and thank you -

-however it IS NICE to have a soundtrack put on an MP3 for 2 reasons:

1.) If one enjoys the certain song and/or audio track from the movie
and just wants to listen to it without having to always insert
the DVD disk into the computer -

2.) To 'manipulate' the recording off the DVD the way you want to

You can re-dub the 'proof' MP3 into Audacity to do just that

it works very well and if have programs ,also can contact its support team. they are very friendly

Apps like this are great for listening to audio of concert DVDs in the car or earphones on the go.
I guess from some of the negs, some of you don't do that...

This seller is probably willing to give discounts on their software, I offered them 50% of what they normally charge for one of the other programs that they had on here but I missed that day--YMMV, so good luck! BTW these guys do put out some good stuff and if your needing something like this, they would be the ones I would personally buy it from. Unfortunately I can't really take advantage of this one because I also purchased this one when I bought the other one, dooh! Oh well, I would vouch for the company and NO I don't work for them or get any gain from saying nice things about them. I just think there are so many software companies out there that are selling licenses for garbage that when I find a company that actually has good software, and treats their customers well, then I am going to let people know that I have a high opinion of them.

I find the best use of this type of program is for listening to the director commentaries from DVDs. Those are nice to listen to like an audio book - no need for the video.

#36 alhall
This is what you can do to activate program: After downloading file, start the Setup and install program. Yes, the register screen pops up and then you input the info and then you get nowhere, right? At this point close that popup screen and close the program, check the Quick Launch area also to be sure the program is not there and is really closed. Then go to START>Progams>Plato DVD to Ripper 6.82>(click) Plato DVD to MP3 Ripper
This will start the Program, find the Register button at the bottom left of the GUI screen. Click that button and enter the registration# (license code) and also enter the license name. Enter these by copy and paste.
This should register the product . Let me know if this works for you.

@ #7, #9, #30 --> This is useful in the sense that say if you have a concert on DVD but don't have the time to watch the video, you could still listen to the performance on your iPod/MP3 player. I use a different program already that I am happy with, so I have not installed this one. I also have several DVDs that I have ripped so I can listen to the extra songs/live versions/etc while driving.

There are so many that toss up "thumbs down" on this who don't bother to try it, who are going to watch a DVD in the future where there is a song they like, and will wish they'd have downloaded and installed this utility. Personally, I haven't had any problems with any of Plato's utilities.
Cheers!

#44 Nicole: it looks like they are just re-organizing the game of the day part of the site. Check the blog on the home page.

I love GOTD even when I can't use that day's offering. Keep up the good work!

why just audio, video would make it so much better. Click here if you want video also.

I see potential in creating "Audiobook" files from DVDs there there is a good storyline/dialogue/narration...

it is getting lamer and lamer everyday especially since they took the games down I hate this website

I agree with #20, that's why I'd mention
another free prog:
MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution
http://www.mediacoderhq.com/
You can use it to
- improve compression / reduce size of audio/video files
- convert for audio/video playback devices (digital audio player, MP4 player, mobile phone, PDA, PSP, VCD/DVD player etc.)
-! extract audio tracks from video files
- rip audio/video discs
- repair corrupted or partial downloaded video files
there is also a simplified audio only edition too
http://www.mediacoderhq.com/audio/
It has very good ratings at Softpedia and
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Encoders-Converter-DIVX-Related/MediaCoder.shtml
resp.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Audio-Convertors/MediaCoder-Audio-Edition.shtml
and also at
http://www.download.com/MediaCoder/3000-2140_4-10595575.html?tag=lst-1&cdlPid=10834498

Abbasgirlnow, #34: It's an image made with Norton Ghost (or another drive clone software), stored on another hard drive, external or internal is fine. If your system ever crashes for what ever reason, you can recover the clone to a new, re-partitioned or different hard drive and bingo! Just as good as new! It works. Of this I'm positive. The system I'm using right now is a clone. Everything is identical to the origional including data files, music, videos, software and all (even my play lists). Only this took me less then an hour to do where a re-format takes a minimum of 8 for this particular system.

The freeware "DVD Decrypter" does this. It is a valuable tool if you are interested in pulling music and dialog from the movies to make your own mixes, etc.
I have used DVD Decryter to rip the Spider-Man movies audio and piece the dialog together (mp3 editing/separate program) for a track I used in my son's 1st birthday party.
I imagine you could use it to rip movies to create ringtones of famous lines and such. I think this is a useful tool, but again, it is available free elsewhere...

To #36 #18 & #22
If all of us just jumped in and yelled 'help', without reading any preceding comments, just who is going to know we need help? Catch my drift?

READ COMMENT ON REGISTRATION #11, and you'll find that this is the source of your Reg woes. As for the shortcut..... we all screw up sometime!
Thanx to Jason (#11)

like no:36 comment, It didn't work first time. What I did was go to the end of the registration and delete one space, then it worked fine. Good luck.

Nice software. Someone needs to help Plato with their Engrish though...
"And it also earns good reputation from all over the world. With Plato DVD to MP3 ripper you never feel boring again."
Should say:
"Commands manly respect the world over! Much luck and good fortune follow those who use Plato DVD to MP3 ripper!"
Just joshing... keep your pants on.

Amazing results! The software works flawlessly. However, after evaluating the claim, "With Plato DVD to MP3 ripper you never feel boring again," I am sorry to report that I still feel boring. My girlfriend felt me on two separate occasions today and said, "yep, still boring." I hope this can be fixed in the next release. Otherwise, great software. Thanks, GAOTD!

I'm having the same problem as # 18 and #22:

Keeps stating that the registration codes are incorrect. I am copy/pasting from the index file/file that appears when you need to register and alternately from the readme.txt file.

Desktop Icon couldn’t find the prog as it was looking for dvdtomp3.exe whereas within the prog the file was dvd2mp3.exe.

I've downloaded the zipped file twice and uninstalled/reinstalled five or six times now.

Any ideas what's wrong?

If you have problems using the program, remember that many DVDs have significant copy protection - you’ll usually have to find/use ripping software before you can do anything but play the DVD - & of course you’re responsible for not breaking any laws. Also, I’ve not seen anything at the developers web site that Plato DVD to MP3 Ripper will handle Audio DVDs.

Because Video DVDs often use the theater mix for a 5.1 soundtrack, what you hear at home may not sound right - the surround channels are boosted, speech may sound dim, & there can be a very large (dynamic) volume range [from a whisper to wake-the-neighbors loud]. Many DVD players will compensate for this so you might not have ever noticed, but, converting from AC3 & down-mixing to stereo is based on the original mix on the DVD... The result will almost always be lower volume across the entire audio file, you may find what was on the surround channels overwhelming everything else, and in situations where you can’t really crank up the volume, you might find that in the more quiet parts of the audio track, you can’t hear anything.

You’ll find tools & methods that’ll help if you want to do the extra work [http://www.videohelp.com/tools], and converting the AC3 to wav audio lets you use audio editing/processing software. You can work on the mp3 itself, but the editing software will only convert it to a wav file, do it’s thing, then re-encode the results to mp3 when you’re done - all behind the scenes in a temp folder so you might not be aware that you’re losing quality. You can also keep your separate 6 channels in 6 individual wav files, in a special type of wav file, in a Windows Media Audio file, & in a few other (not as popular) formats.

Getting wav audio from a DVD usually follows 2 steps: stripping the AC3 tracks out of the DVD’s VOB files [PGCDemux.exe], & then converting AC3 to wav or whatever. A free program called DGIndex [http://www.videohelp.com/tools/DGMPGDec] can do it in 1 step, or just strip out the AC3 files, and it’s often included in other programs for this reason; that’s not it’s primary purpose so it doesn’t give you a lot of options. If you’re familiar with & don’t mind using Microsoft’s Graphedit, and you have Power DVD in WinXP, you can use Power DVD’s specialized filters to normalize both the volume & dynamic range at the same time you’re down-mixing 5.1 AC3 to stereo wav files. [“dtsac3source.ax” (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=170561) => Cyberlink Audio Decode => Cyberlink Audio Effect => WAV dest => File Writer]

That all said, unless you have a good reason to use MP3s, like a portable player, most people just leave the AC3 alone. You can use it with many types of mp4 video instead of mp3, software to play it is common, the files are already small (compressed) and so on.

To # 14 What is an XP Pro Clone?

This ripper does not offer high quality converting, which I think is very disappointing. I used the setting "Excellent: 224 kbps" but it overruled and merely encoded with 128 kbps. Thumb down!

I see the usual selection of kooks and moaners are out in force again today.

I'm very pleased with today's offering. I bought a copy of Moby's 18 DVD sometime ago and have been wanting to 'rip' some of the live tracks featured from Glastonbury so I could listen to them on my DVD player.

I've just ripped the first few songs I wanted from the DVD using today's Giveawayoftheday and they sound great. The program is very easy to use. It does seem to throw up an error message under Windows Vista, but continues working, and I note that Vista isn't a supported operating system.

In reply to the person looking for a wav instead of an Mp3. You can change the settings and rip a wave file by pressing the Mp3 arrow and selecting Wave instead, then up the quality by changing the profile settings to the highest settings, bit rate and frequency also. The problem I'm having is I can't see any DVD picture in the small window. Maybe I need a codec, or any ideas welcome.

ive asked before and ill ask again
what would you possibly use this for

its ok, it does have a good use, bearing that i got it 4 3

Can't get it to work..pop up box comes up after I hit start and it it blank...nothing happens.

nice little programme,does exactly what it says it does.xpsp2 install no problem,foolproof simple interface,definite keeper for me.ripped a 66 minutes concert dvd's soundtrack out to mp3 in less then 30 minutes.can do bitrate up to 256,enough for any portable player.

Aside from the ethical arguments #9 makes, I prefer buying concert DVD's and ripping the audio, instead of buying the CD soundtrack to the same performance.

Yes, you don't get the same audio quality, but then again, the CD soundtrack isn't up to DVD audio standards either. Last time I checked, there are no protable DVD audio players in the market.

But I would prefer to rip the tracks into uncompressed WAV format. I agree that ripping it straight to MP3 format is a waste. If there was a piece of software that could rip straight to WAV (or even 24-bit WAV in a perfect world) that would ideal.

Of course, if that piece of software were to be made available on Giveawayoftheday.com - that would be a dream come true.

This would be useful for ripping my U2 concert DVD to mp3 and load onto my iPod so I can listen in my car.

Encountered no problems with installing the program. I noticed that the program seemed to run very slowly, and slowed my computer to a crawl. The second file that I attempted to rip, the program locked up right at the end of the ripping process. I used task manager to exit the program and restarted it. I tried two different DVD files and it seemed to be working fine, but each output file was essentially blank, though they each showed the appropriate amount of Mb for an MP3 file. I have since then uninstalled the program and installed another program listed in comment # 3. This program worked flawlessly...no problems.

Anyone else find this - the Desktop Icon couldn't find the prog as it was looking for dvdtomp3.exe whereas within the prog the file was dvd2mp3.exe

Useless tool.

To #13 According to the blurb, “With Plato DVD to MP3 ripper you never feel boring again.”

Well… I installed the software then began talking to a group of people. One by one they started yawning, falling asleep, and getting up and leaving… so I still feel boring.

I remember there is also some other DVD audio ripper software here in the last month. I think it is better than this one.

Just like it said in the description. It can only support DVD to mp3, and I also need to make the DVD audio to some other formats such as wma, acc, etc. Also, some times,we must convert DVD to other videos for my iPhone or Zune, even ther Youtube video. So, I do not think we need three software to meet the needs. So I recommend this all-in-one DVD and video guide to convert dvd and video to other video and audio formats. It works well. It can support output almost any audio/video format including Video format(H264, MP4, WMV, AVI, MOV, RM, 3GP, flv, SWF, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, VCD, SVCD, DVD, etc.) and Audio format(AC3, AAC, MP2, MP3, MP4, RA, WMA, etc.).

To Rod --- You extremely rude and obnoxious!!! -

Having install problems with Windows XP Pro. Keeps stating that the registration codes are incorrect. I am copy/pasting from the index file/file that appears when you need to register.

I forgot to mention that I also like to make cell phone ringtones with snippets from DVDs. Again, this program will be very useful for that too.

Post #9 has basicly said all that can be said about the software here today.
It is fully true without doubt, and I would only be stating things already said.


Now many will not like what I say now, but I am honestly NOT trying to be RUDE.
These comments are still cheeky, funny but I promise not rude.
To KEN KELLY,
and I am going by the consistant large volume of negs (ie not useful) comments you get.
You must be,
1. Very ignorant/arrogant

2. Stupid.

3. Not able to comprehend what things are for.

4. Trying to be funny
I suspect all the above.

WHY
As you keep putting na in the space for a website address to go.
That is NOT what that space is for.
And I bet that is why NO one finds your comments usefull.
+ u always just repeat what is posted before u.
I am sorry if this offends others that I say that...but I am with tongue in cheek just trying to save all those peoples time who click on ur silly link u create.

I record quite a bit from TV to DVD for later viewing. There have been plenty of times that an artist performed a version of a song that is not available on CD that I would love to have had on CD to play in the auto. This program will be very useful to me for that reason. Plato makes great products.

Well, I'll say this. Plato makes some professional looking software. Very nice interface with a good on line help files. I downloaded from here and their home page. Used this key with the home page download and it worked like a champ. Should I find this a program I'll end up using often, I will update my XP Pro clone so I won't loost the app, just in case.
How much actual use I'll get out of this program depends on two things:
1) How much time it takes to extract the songs I want from a DVD soundtrack.
2) How often a movie comes along with songs worth the trouble to extract from a DVD.
Thanks GAOTD for helping me add yet another professional looking tool to my XP Pro system.

You guys should change your name to "Audio and Videos Converters R Us". When 5 of the 7 offerings a week are audio or video converters, it might be time to bow out gracefully.

According to the blurb, "With Plato DVD to MP3 ripper you never feel boring again."

Well... I installed the software then began talking to a group of people. One by one they started yawning, falling asleep, and getting up and leaving... so I still feel boring.

Installs fine on Vista x64.

REGISTRATION HINT: The registration key provided in the readme.txt file has an extra space at the end. In fact, when I copied/pasted into the registration dialog, there was also an extra space at the beginning! I have never seen that happen before. If registration fails, check for leading and trailing spaces, remove them, and try again.

I will put this on the other computer and givbe it a try. Wait and I will tell you.,,,, Yes it does do the job it is designed for and can be very usefull for some. Be sure to read the instructions and do read them more than one time. Easy and fast compared to some others. Yes DVDs do have seperate audio tracks.

The concept behind this title is flawed for two significant reasons:
1) Anybody who appreciates the higher quality audio that is standard on a DVD will cringe at the degradation inherent in converting said audio into a mp3. It's like listening to a live concert through someone's cell phone: you get the idea, there's no question, but you're missing out on all the best parts. The audio on a typical movie DVD (it's higher on DVD-A, which is an audio-only format) ranges from 48 kHz @ 16 bit, to 96 kHz @ 24 bit, the latter of which is the typical case, as compared to a CD which is 44.1 kHz @ 16 bit, or mp3 formats which range significantly lower still. To again put the audio comparison in layman's terms, it's like having your friend play a classic Sinatra record (you know, those awesome vinyl Frisbee-like things your grandma has stored in the attic, which actually have a wider dynamic range than a CD?) on their $100k top-of-the-line stereo system, while you sit next door and listen to it through one of those string-between-two-cans things. Starting to get the picture?
2) This is an ethical issue. It's ethical because it's technically against the provisions set forth in most movies' copyright/legal statements for you to make a copy of ANY portion of the movie, including the audio, and, yes, that includes backups... those are technically illegal too... but the odds are pretty much nil that anything would ever happen to you (there's no real governing body that actually enforces copyright law in a general sense... it's typically just when a specific complaint is made). And, for all of you who consider yourself experts in copyright law simply because you're compelled to justify yourselves, you can prove my statements right or wrong quite easily: take the prospective DVD, call the publisher, and ask them. LOL.

That said, for those few who could use this program, i think that it would be better wrapped up with another of Plato's programs, like their "DVD Copy" or "DVD Ripper Pro" titles, rather than being a stand-alone program.

Is the ripped mp3 has the same quality as the original DVD? Or will the conversion lost quality? If this software can rip DVD to APE audio, that would be perfect.

..yes, but a video DVD does not have seperated audio tracks to select

Logically, when a DVD is played, the audio output needs to be seperated so that it can be sent to the speakers.

I'd imagine that this is where the ripper taps in to the stream.

I'm no expert, though, so I'm probably talking complete rubbish.

Sounds like a useful piece of software...but does anyone know of any software (preferably freeware) that will rip lossless audio from the DVD in wav or flac or suchlike? Maybe even rip the 5.1 channels too?