How to extract MP3 Audio from DVD and Video files

This tutorial shows you how to convert DVD movies, Video and Audio files to MP3 format easily and quickly. It contains 4 parts:
Part 1. What's MP3?
Part 2. How to extract audio from DVD to MP3?
Part 3. How to extract audio from video to MP3?
Part 4. How to convert among all popular audio formats?

Part 1. What's MP3?
MP3 stands for MPEG-1 Audio Layer III. It is not a separate format, but a part of MPEG-1 video encoding format, developed by MPEG group in early 1990's. MPEG-1 Audio Layer III (MP3) is a method to store good quality audio into small files by using psychoacoustics in order to get rid of the data from the audio that most of the humans can't hear.
Now MP3 is the most popular format for downloading and storing music. MP3 is supported by all computer systems, all partable players (iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, PSP, PS3, Creative Zen, iRiver, Video Mobile Phone, PMP, Archos, etc.), all DVD players and some car stereos.
Part 2. How to extract audio from DVD to MP3?
Sometimes you may want to extract a certain beautiful section of music or dialog from your DVD video file and save them as MP3 files. So, How can you get the perfect output mp3 music as the originals from DVD movies for burning CD or playing on your Computer and portable players? Please follow this guide:
Software you need: Aiseesoft DVD Audio Ripper
Aiseesoft DVD Audio Ripper (Mac Version / Windows Version) is an ideal solution of ripping music DVD movies and converting DVD to MP3, M4A, WMV, AAC, AC3, WMA, WAV audio file with excellent quality. It lets you choose the audio of any chapters or titles to convert, select DVD audio track, trim the audio of your DVD title or chapter, and even merge the audio from selected titles or chapters into one file.
Note: The following is the DVD Audio Ripper for Mac step by step guide, by the way, the DVD Audio Ripper for Windows has the same function with the DVD Audio Ripper for Mac, so you can take the same steps to convert DVD to MP3.

Step-by-Step guide: How to convert DVD to MP3:
Step 1: download and install Aiseesoft DVD Audio Ripper for Mac, then run this program.



Step 2: load your DVD, choose any titles or chapters that you want to convert.
Step 3: Choose the output format (mp3). Set the output setting.
Step 4: Start the conversion after finishing the output settings. Now you have successfully converted you DVD movie to MP3 music, you can put them on you iPod, iPhone, or some other mp3 players and enjoy them on your pocket.

Part 3. How to extract audio from video to MP3?
How can you extract audio from video such as AVI, WMV, MP4 to MP3?
Software you need:Aiseesoft Audio Converter
Aiseesoft Audio Converter (Mac Version / Windows Version) can extract the audio track from your video files to popular audio formats such as MP3, WAV, AAC, AC3, M4A, etc with high sound quality. This Audio Converter provides you with very useful features such as trim audio, and merging added files into one file.
Note: Aiseesoft Audio Converter and Audio Converter for Mac has the same functions and similar interface, just for different OS (Windows PC and Mac OS X). We'll take Audio Converter for Mac as an example in this guide, the steps are the same as Audio Converter for Windows.

Step-by-Step guide: How to extract audio from video to MP3
Step 1: download and install Aiseesoft Audio Converter for Mac, run this program.



Step 2: Add Video files you want to convert to the program.
Step 3: Choose the output format (mp3).
Step 4: Click the “Start”button to start conversion.
This program completes conversions in seconds, and you can convert and play batches of files at a time.

Part 4. How to convert among all popular audio formats?
Sometimes it is necessary to convert one audio format to another because of some hardware/software restriction that the user comes up against or for some other reasons. Luckily, Aiseesoft Audio Converter has this function to suit for your requirements.
WAV to MP3: convert .wav music files to .mp3 format to reduce the size of the files by roughly a factor of 10.
WMA to MP3: A prime example of this is the Apple iPod which can’t play WMA files.
Software you need: Aiseesoft Audio Converter

Step-by-Step guide: How to convert wav, wma to MP3:
Step 1: Download and install Aiseesoft Audio Converter then run this program.
Step 2: Import the audio files you want to convert.
Step 3:Choose the output format (mp3).
Step 4: Start the conversion.