Comments on: Extracting DTS on a Mac

By: 3k21

3k21 — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:21:06 +0000

Very nice. I attempted to use Terminal & MacPorts, but Terminal spit out some errors about not being about to compile libdts & etc. So I then tried using VLC. Transcoded a WAV @ 192k to my desktop. Imported the WAV into Audacity. I had to, at this point, for my audio file (and I imagine it’s similar with any other DTS file), pan channels 5 & 6 hard L and R. Everything else I left as Audacity presented it. Then I exported as a WAV onto desktop. Cheers mate.

By: JimmyJombas

JimmyJombas — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:35:10 +0000

I have tried the VLC program for mac os x 10.4 version. that was linked above. it didn’t convert the dts to multichannels. just a double channel wav. n played fine in every program i threw at it. n the rest of my dts albums. hav the static (which is normal unless u use vlc to play it.) so i knew it would burn fine.

a friend of mine got a few of these converted cd’s. most of em are either multiple tracks (single songs cut, in wav files. or one huge wav file n a cue.)

i use paralells desktop w/ windows xp installed for some programs n a freeware version of the KUbuntu 9.04 Linux as well. so i got all my bases checked for the min. software to run whatever is needed.

i use img burn to burn the files that can’t be used by my mac programs. Toast is almost worthless in this situation. it’s basically a very out dated script of Nero w/ the Blue-Ray disc burning cap. added to it. i remember i’ve always hav to use img burn to burn a cue n whatever else file. those two programs. Nero n Toast only hav bin / cue files. if u dont hav both u cant burn em in this situation.

just load the cue file. or write your own. they aren’t complex txt files w/ a .cue extension. i.e. my friend and i both own this cd. so only wanted to see how this worked out.

REM GENRE Industrial
REM DATE 1989
REM DISCID 720B6F0A
REM COMMENT “ExactAudioCopy v0.95b4″
PERFORMER “Nine Inch Nails”
TITLE “Pretty Hate Machine (DTS 5.1)”
FILE “dts.wav” WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE “Head Like A Hole”
PERFORMER “Nine Inch Nails”
FLAGS DCP
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE “Terrible Lie”
PERFORMER “Nine Inch Nails”
FLAGS DCP
INDEX 00 04:59:72
INDEX 01 04:59:73
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE “Down In It”
PERFORMER “Nine Inch Nails”
FLAGS DCP
INDEX 00 09:38:74
INDEX 01 09:39:00
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE “Sanctified”
PERFORMER “Nine Inch Nails”
FLAGS DCP
INDEX 00 13:25:26
INDEX 01 13:25:27
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE “Something I Can Never Have”
PERFORMER “Nine Inch Nails”
FLAGS DCP
INDEX 00 19:13:46
INDEX 01 19:13:47
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE “Kinda I Want To”
PERFORMER “Nine Inch Nails”
FLAGS DCP
INDEX 00 25:08:45
INDEX 01 25:08:46
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE “Sin”
PERFORMER “Nine Inch Nails”
FLAGS DCP
INDEX 00 29:41:41
INDEX 01 29:41:42
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE “That’s What I Get”
PERFORMER “Nine Inch Nails”
FLAGS DCP
INDEX 00 33:47:71
INDEX 01 33:47:72
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE “The Only Time”
PERFORMER “Nine Inch Nails”
FLAGS DCP
INDEX 00 38:18:55
INDEX 01 38:18:56
TRACK 10 AUDIO
TITLE “Ringfinger”
PERFORMER “Nine Inch Nails”
FLAGS DCP
INDEX 00 43:06:25
INDEX 01 43:06:26

as u can see the wav extension code is above. the .bin should be in qoutes if u are doing a data backup. via a bin n cue. dont recall how the txt of that goes though.

this is another cd w/ simplier type of coding to tell the program when to cut out on the track (00) and cut in (01)

FILE “dts.wav” WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
INDEX 01 22:49:08
TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 01 29:31:08
TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 01 35:02:20
TRACK 05 AUDIO
INDEX 01 38:48:15

if u rip a cd, whether it’s a normal cd or a dts in wav form this works. plus u dont have to remember to click 0 seconds on every song when burning in a normal program. the pause option that’s default everytime u want to burn an audio cd.

so i used nero to try n just burn the dts files as is. n it did burn. but when i used it in my dvd w/ dts, dolby digtal, etc outputs. it was in dts but played static only. like as if i was trying to listen to it w/ everything on this computer cept vlc.

how can i convert the dts using windows to a 5.1 dts wav file. the above vlc didnt do it correctly.

By: Spielmeister

Spielmeister — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:46:58 +0000

I’ve tried the command line method (dtsdec) and it worked great. However, the demuxed WAV files have clicks and other kinds of clipping distortion. I thought it was a problem of the De-inverleaver program, but after testing with more DTS files, the problem is the dtsdec demux.

I should try (once again) with VLC.

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:09:59 +0000

I have a DTS Audio CD (Ray Brown Trio Summertime on Telarc). VLC plays it fine, everything else plays noise. MacTheRipper doesn’t see it as its not a DVD. Opening it in the finder shows the 11 tracks as AIFF files. I copied the AIFF file from the CD onto the Mac, changed extension to WAV, and used VLC to transcode it. When I open the transcoded file using the command line for audacity, its just noise.

B.T.W. I was able to get iTunes playable audio files on a PC using dbPoweramp’s CD Ripper and Tranzcode. I was hoping to find a Mac-Only solution.

By: Matt Z

Matt Z — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:52:25 +0000

Hey Matt. Great posting but ive hit an error.
The following dependencies failed to build: libdca

heres the infro from the config file… it seems im missing some stuff?
AMTAR=’${SHELL} /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_audio_libdca/work/libdca-0.0.5/autotools/missing –run tar’
AR=”
AUTOCONF=’${SHELL} /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_audio_libdca/work/libdca-0.0.5/autotools/missing –run autoconf’
AUTOHEADER=’${SHELL} /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_audio_libdca/work/libdca-0.0.5/autotools/missing –run autoheader’
AUTOMAKE=’${SHELL} /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_audio_libdca/work/libdca-0.0.5/autotools/missing –run automake-1.10′

Please help dude! mcz4 on ichat

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:16:48 +0000

I converted several DTS streams to a wav. files. When opened in VCL all of them have a very fast speed and it sounds like The Chipmunks. If I convert a AC3 stream it has a normal speed. It is very cumbersome to play with the speed, pitch and tempo of the wav. file. Any reason for this or solution?

By: jim

jim — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:20:21 +0000

So…. once extracted/converted/created to a single DTS .wav of static, how do I turn it back into audio on a CD?

If Toast….. under which format for a 700MB CD? As Audio? As data? The Cue file is of no value to Toast, it would appear…

TiA!

By: Mattias

Mattias — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:07:06 +0000

Used the instructions, ripped the DTS-stream with mac the ripper and then converted it with VLC. It works perfect! Thanks for the post!

Maybe one thing for those that received an Zero K file:

I also received this the first time. I then saw that the chapter I selected on mac the ripper didn’t have a DTS-stream. You have to make sure you have the right chapter whih contains a stream. I had a 400 MB-file, but it had no stream. You can check that your file is ok, by checking if VLC recognises the stream and plays it (before you convert).

By: Matt Hite

Matt Hite — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:58:57 +0000

So, Lee, sorry it’s a bit confusing. If you read the thread, you’ll find out that indeed the VLC method DOES NOT work for MacTheRipper streams. It works for DVDDecrypter (PC) streams, though. In any case, I haven’t gotten around to updating the main post to reflect this.

Your best bet is to get over your command-line phobia — it’s really not that bad.

By: Lee Farber

Lee Farber — Tue, 20 May 2008 05:22:33 +0000

I’m having the same problem as Steve. The resulting WAV file that comes out of VLC is zero k. I can’t figure it out! I’m following the instructions to the letter. And yes, I am command line phobic…