Can I convert DVD's to audio for iTunes?

[johnbro23]

I just got my first mac a few days ago and I'm amazed at how easy everything is. I was putting my CD collection on iTunes and was thinking if I could put some of my DVD's on iTunes in mp3 or whatever format. They're some DMB DVD's in case you're wondering why I would want only audio.

[mrbrown]

No. You cannot do this with iTunes, which only rips music CDs. You'd have to get a seperate tool and violate provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 to do what you want to do, and you wouldn't want to do that, now would you? ;-)

[tjwett]

or you could just record the audio from a DVD into your Mac and use iTunes to convert it to a suitable size mp3 or whatever. all you need is an audio input on your Mac and simple wave editor.

[RiseAgainst]

You might want try wiretap.

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/freebies/

[the future]

This thread will answer all your questions: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=52847

[Nermal]

No. You cannot do this with iTunes, which only rips music CDs. You'd have to get a seperate tool and violate provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 to do what you want to do, and you wouldn't want to do that, now would you? ;-)

Well considering that we don't know what country he's from, this may not be an issue :)

[johnbro23]

Well considering that we don't know what country he's from, this may not be an issue :)

United States.

I only asked the question because it seemed like anything is possible with Macs, so why not ask and see if it could be done.

[johnbro23]

This thread will answer all your questions: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=52847

Thanks a lot. That worked perfectly. Why do things work so much better on Macs than on PC's? ;)

[the future]

Why do things work so much better on Macs than on PC's? ;)

It's just one of them laws of nature... :)