Emily L. Ferguson wrote: : First, you'll have to find a way to separate the audio file from the : video on your DVD. You may not be able to get at just the audio : file, and it may turn out that the only way to separate the audio : from the video is to record the audio with some recording software : (for which you may have to search and pay probably a small fee) in : REAL TIME, while playing the DVD on your computer. audacity (freeware) will do this - just select "what you hear" as the input, play the DVD and hit 'record' on Audacity, then 'save as' mp3 http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ btw, a friend of mine - an orchestral musician who also works as a sound guy in the movies just created his doctoral thesis, a french horn orchestral CD using Audacity. He's had and used all the pro packages but found this little program did a lot the others couldn't :) k