techie question
 

lets say i have this concert on dvd and i would like to make an audio cd of it. other than hooking my computer up to a cd burner, how would i do such a thing?

when i say 'cd burner' i mean an external one like a recording studio uses.

Providing you have a DVD Rom in your computer that will read and play DVDs then it's easy. You just need to find a program that will let you rip the audio from the DVD. I don't know any because I've never done it, but if you type "dvd audio ripper" into google I'm sure something will come up. Then if you have a normal internal CD burner then you'll be able to create an audio CD with the file that you ripped from the DVD. Good luck.

Xilisoft's DVD Audio Ripper will come up. But the trial version lets you only rip a few minutes.
Smartripper and BeSweet come somehow to my mind, but it was too long ago that I used either of them.
Google around a bit under "rip dvd to audio" or something like that. There are tons of manuals out there.

If you want something quick to do it then DVD Audio Extractor will but it's not free, though cheap I think

If you don't mind a couple of extra steps you could use something like SmartRipper to rip the VOB files to your hard drive and then BeSweet to encode the audio to WAV or MP3 or whatever format you want it

That must've been what I have been doing. Or something similar.

There are lots of programs for ripping DVDs to hard drive, but BeSweet is one of the best programs I've found for transcoding audio from DVD's.

It can handle Dolby and DTS (if you have SurCode DTS Encoder), there are dlls on the site for VOB input and AVI input, and you can make mux files to split the channels and transcode to 5.1 WAV or 6 mono WAVEs