Recording Audio From A DVD

From ABBA to Zeppelin, more and more bands are putting out concert DVDs. That's great, but it's not possible to listen to the music on these DVDs away from a DVD player. Until now, that is - Audio Hijack Pro is great for taking audio off concert DVDs ( or any type of DVD) and letting you use it as you like. This works just like any other hijacking, but people ask about it enough that we've made an exact set of directions for doing it. Follow along, and you can listen to the audio from your concert DVDs with your iPod, or burn it to a CD and take it in the car.

Set Up

For our example. we'll be using DVD Player. Alternative DVD players such as VLC should also work fine.

1) Launch Audio Hijack Pro and create a new Session.
2) Set the Input tab of the Session to Application, then slect the DVD Player application (found in the Applications folder).
3) Now, adjust the settings in the Recording tab. If you plan to burn this audio to a CD and deleting the copies from your hard drive, save the files as AIFF (Auto) to get perfect quality audio. If you'll be saving these files to listen to in iTunes or on an iPod, record to MP3 or AAC.
4) Finally, click Record and play the DVD in DVD Player. Any audio played in DVD Player will play through Audio Hijack Pro and be recorded. If you're recording a full concert DVD, press the Split button in-between tracks to get multiple files, one for each song.

When you're done, be sure to hit Record again to end recording of the last file. Your files will be saved to the specified location, as well as accessible from the Recording Bin. From here, you can send the files to iTunes, right to an iPod, or burn them to CD. Now you can enjoy audio from DVDs anywhere you like!