How To Rip High Resolution Blu-ray Audio

Chris,<br />

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Thanks for sharing the step-by-step guide regarding the ripping process. I only bump into this excellent guide recently. I followed the guide and successfully extracted the audio track from the Blu-ray. However, there are two problems:-<br />

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1. The output wave file is a single continuous file. Whilst this may be OK for a concert, I was wondering if there is a way to break the wave file into individual tracks. Any advancement of technology in the ripping process during the past 18 months?<br />

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2. Most of audio files of the Blu-ray disks have 6 output sound channels. This diminishes the practical value of the ripping process as most of the audiophiles are really looking of the 2-channel version. Further, I believe most hi-fi DAC is only capable of handling 2 channels.<br />

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Any solution to the above problems? Many thanks in advance.

Allows you to choose to only rip the 2 channel audio track, as opposed to the video and the multichannel audio.<br />

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As far as breaking the large files into the individual tracks, AFAIK you still need to edit them manually with an editor that can handle high-rez material.<br />

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I've been ripping some holiday gifts the last few days, so I can confirm that this guide is still working! Looking forward to listening to the 24/192 Le Noise instead of the Redbook.<br />

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The bonus material from "The Promise", too

The first thing that popped into my head as I read this was...<br />

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"Great" yet another way the music industry and artists can make it MORE difficult to distribute their art.. what a yawn... <br />

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At least your article described the wonderful benefits of keeping everything within the one music library, rather than on "YADF" (yet another disc format)<br />

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Funny how Neil (not so) Young chose this path of distribution..<br />

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Couldn't see Radiohead or Muse doing this, but be more than happy to be proven wrong <br />

As for Justin Beiber?<br />

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What we need is more of this via sites like HDtracks, even the artists own websites. Not on Blu Ray.....!<br />

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This is a typical music industry retrograde step IMHO... <br />

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Oh well. "Comes a time" I guess.

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Sauerball, great recommendation here, thanks! The one stumbling block I had is now overcome with the wonderful HD DVD/BluRay Stream Extractor in combination with eac3to on a Windows 7 Virtual Machine on my Mac Pro. Been ripping the 2-channel high-rez PCM tracks from BluRay's like Talking Heads Stop Making Sense (excellent 24/96 PCM track), Neil Young's Le Noise, etc. I just ordered a used HD-DVD of The Eagles Farewell Tour, just so I can attach my XBox HD-DVD drive to my Windows 7 VM and rip the 24/96PCM from that! I never thought I'd buy another HD-DVD or even use my old Xbox add-on drive, but with the BluRay/HD-DVD extractor, why the heck not??? I'm gonna keep an eye out for any used HD-DVD's I can find, sometimes you see some gems out there. Thanks again for your help and advice.<br />

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-By the way, all the high rez audio ripping and high rez download purchasing I've been doing lately (and there has been TONS!), all of it has been for the end game of using my PS Audio PWD DAC and integrated bridge to stream all this lovely high rez audio from my NAS to the main listening room in the house. Working great and getting much use out of the Bridge, absolutely love it! Sound quality is outstanding! <br />

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Anyways, cheers man, thanks for filling a gap for me in my process.<br />

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By the way, after ripping to a VERY large .WAV file, of course you need to split it into tracks, even with the live concerts, so you can at least properly index to the next song. I'm using Adobe Audition on the Mac (currently in Beta) to split the tracks and label them properly. Works like a charm. This is of course child's play for Audition, compared to the complexity of its other functions, but it does have such a nice waveform view, makes finding gaps and inserting track markers really easy. When done, simply use the Export feature to export the audio between markers as files, and Audition labels the files according the markers you've inserted. Perfect result from which you can easily transcode to FLAC, or whatever chosen format for inserting proper meta-data, etc. For me, the Audition wav files output will be converted using Max to FLAC (with metadata and artwork added), then converted one last time to 320kbps MP3 for my handheld devices. The high-rez FLAC's will go up on my music server for both the PWD DAC/Bridge and for my music server to serve to me remotely when I'm travelling. Ahh yes, a labor of love. <br />

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Cheers guys.

hi chris/anyone<br />

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i ripped a bd audio and have the file in wave format.<br />

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i can play the file on my mac with itunes.<br />

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i want to convert the file to FLAC so i can play in using decibel program.<br />

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can you please let me know what program you recommend on a mac to convert the wave to a FLAC file?<br />

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thanks<br />

mark<br />

I don't use a Mac so can't _recommend_ a program but these are the ones linked to on the official flac website: http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html

I have been experimenting with different software to RIP 2-channel from my concert discs and am bummed to see the very few are really hi-rez. <br />

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Most of them have turned out to be 16-48 with an occasional 24-48. I have only found 1 in my collection so far to be 24-192 (2L The Nordic Sound).<br />

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The jacket covers usually list the protocol, but not the bit depth and sample rates. So far, a lot of work to find out most of it is just marketing !!!

The easiest app to use for converting between the various lossless file formats for the Mac is XLD, a freeware program that can be found here:<br />

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http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html<br />

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FWIW, I find myself using XLD exclusively these days for all my audio file conversion needs. The only thing it won't covert is raw DTS files (ie, fines with the suffix .dts), but that is about the only thing I have found that it can't do. XLD will also process most cue file sets, which is a rarity on the Mac platform (Roxio Toast only handles bin/cue file pairs).

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