ripping DTS encoded CD

[zenon]

I have Led Zeppelin - How the West was Won.

It's encoded as DTS and I'd like to rip/encode it to wav then burn it to CD so I can listen to it in my car.

can dBpowerAMP do this with a plugin? if not what out there can?

TIA

[xoas]

Re: ripping DTS encoded CD

DTS tracks are multichannel. As you are likely aware, your car player will almost certainly only handle 2 channel tracks.

You could try to rip your DTS tracks directly to 16 bit, 2 channel Wave at 44.1 kHz.
Failing that, you could try ripping them to WMA lossless in multichannel setting and then convert to 2 channel, 16 bit wave as is suggested here: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...ndpost&p=95238

This procedure will require either the wma v9 or v9.1 codecs (and other support files/programs as may be required).

Or you might be able to rip them to 16 bit multichannel wav at 44.1 kHz and then to 2 channel but I might recommend the wma lossless conversion first since we do get reports of problems with Wave to Wave conversions.

Let us know how you make out so we can better help the next user who wants to rip DTS cd's.

Best wishes,
Bill Mikkelsen

**See the post below for a demonstration on handling DTS files****

[zenon]

Re: ripping DTS encoded CD

your link doesn't work, but I am now to play the files on my computer... they sound great too!

what you need to do is use dBpowerAMP to rip the cda files to your hard drive as a normal .wav rip.

but you're not done yet, try playing this dts encoded .wav in winamp and you'll be shopping for new speakers as full-blast white noise pumps through your system.

what you need then is a player called VLC.
VLC

Execpt you need to download v0.7.2
v0.7.2

You can now play these DTS encoded .wav's perfectly.

What I'm wrestling with now is how to save these files demuxed to stereo into my hard drive. VLC has a wav out feature like winamp, but I haven't been able to get it to work yet :(

News


Release: VLC 0.8.0 (3 November 2004) It has been a long wait, but it is finally there. A plethora of new features for everyones enjoyment. They include: faster and more flexible input layer, improved transcoding, a plugins cache to speedup VLC startup time, vastly improved subtitles, OSD and DVD support, Windows Media Video 3 support under Windows, Multipart JPEG webcam support, an audio equalizer and so much, much more.
Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary package of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo!
Only source, Win32 and Mac OS X package are available at the moment, others will follow soon.
NOTE: This release doesn't include DTS audio decoding support. DTS Inc. claims that distributing this software with DTS decoding capabilities is a violation of their patent EP 864 146. At DTS Inc. request, we decided, as a precautionary measure, to provisionally suspend the distribution of VLC with DTS decoding capabilities while reviewing DTS Inc. claim. This is not an acknowledgement of the validity of the claim.

[xoas]

Re: ripping DTS encoded CD

Great news to know!
Thanks for the update.

Best wishes,
Bill Mikkelsen

[zenon]

Re: ripping DTS encoded CD

I wasn't able to get VLC's converting feature to work so I qeued up the discs in VLC's playlist and using the dMC auxiliary input app recorded them to one big flac file. Then I converted the flac to wav using dBpower AMP. Finally, I opened this wav in sound forge 7, normalized, split it into tracks and burned.

I'm not sure how much quilty is lost when using dMC auxiliary input like this, but I think it sounds pretty darn good