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[LyraNovaHeart]

Hey there! Have a collection of CDs or DVD-As that you want ripped? You're in the right place then

Pre-Requirements

- A CD Drive and a CD to rip (duh!)
- Foobar2000

Now, onto the Guide

Part 1: CDs (Compact Disc)

CD is relatively easy, as the data itself is just Linear PCM Audio, you can easily copy this (assuming no 2000s era DRM like XCP Copy Protection, Cactus Data Shield, etc). Make sure your disc is inserted, then you can open Foobar2000 to complete the ripping process.

Ripping Steps

- 1. Open Foobar2000 and Navigate to File > Open Audio CD

You should see a Dialogue Box like this, select your CD drive and click Rip.




If you do care about accuracy, you can click drive settings and enable ripping security, though disabled is fine as long as the disc is relatively scratch and error free.

- 2 (Optional). Fill out the track and album information at the Rip CD Dialouge Box



This step is entirely optional, but is recommended. Here you can either fill out the info yourself if it doesn't exist, or if its a well known CD, you can use Musicbrainz's database by the lookup button

- 3. Proceed to Converter Setup.



Here is where you'll choose a output format, depending on what you want, you can go for Lossless or Lossy

Lossless formats:

- WAV
- FLAC (needs Foobar2000 Free Encoder Pack or FLAC exe)
- Apple Lossless (needs qAAC + iTunes)
- AIFF
- Wav64
- Wavpack

Lossy Formats (Recommended):

- AAC (Apple) (needs qAAC + iTunes)
- Opus (needs Foobar2000 Free Encoder Pack or OpusTools)
- OGG Vorbis

It is recommended to save to a lossless format first, then convert to lossy if you are going to use lossy.

Note: for HDCD discs, you will need to decode them first, luckily Foobar2000 can handle this, to decode HDCD click Processing and enable "Enable Decode Postprocessing - for DTS, HDCD, etc).

4. Select an output directly and press select folder, your CD will then begin to rip.

5. Done! If you need to convert to lossy just use the same converter by right clicking the track in Foobar2000 and click the dots, then specify format and folder.

Part 2: DVD-A Ripping

DVD-A is a bit more complicated, as it does use DRM (Digital Rights Management) to try and stop copying, for this you'll need a separate component.

Requirements

- DVD-A and DVD Drive (again, duh!)
- Foobar2000
- Foobar2000 DVD-Audio Decoder, https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdadecoder/ to install go to File > Preferences > Components > Install and select the file, then restart

Ripping Steps

1. Go to File > Add Folder > Point to the DVD-A disc, or if ISO, just import directly
2. Determine which you want, as they have 5.1 and 2.0 tracks



3. Select the songs you want and right click, then convert, and select your desired format
4. Select the directory and let it copy the tracks
5. Done!
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[Bryn]

Just to say, VLC Media Player can allow you to rip DVD content also, although a bit more complicated... didn't know that Foobar can do this as well so I'll keep that in mind next time

[LyraNovaHeart]

DVD-A doesn't equal DVD-Video.

VLC can rip DVD-Video due to CSS (Content Scrambling System) being broken many years ago. DVD-A uses CPPM (Content Protection for Recordable Media), which is an entirely different DRM standard that VLC can't handle. It might be able to rip the DVD-Video portion but the actual MLP Lossless audio remains protected unless ripped with Foobar2000.
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[nick99nack]

I have actually never tried foobar2000 for ripping DVD-A. I used to use a totally legit copy of DVD Audio Extractor which worked pretty well, but this seems a lot better honestly. I'm going to have to try this.
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