How to rip a soundtrack from a 5.1 hdtv/dvdrip

Hi, sorry if I’m writing in the wrong thread.:tksays:

I just want do know what would be the proper tool to extract the music from, let’s say, a dvdrip or 720p hdtv film/series with ac3 soundtracks.
What I want is only the music track, not the dialogue. (I know there is sometimes some background dialogue in the music track, that don’t bother, tho.)

To the rippers, what is your process, what tools do you use ?
Thanks in advance for your help and feedback…

Depending on the format I ALWAYS just upload the entire film (audio and video multiplexed and everything) into Mediacoder, set the output channels to 5.1, and transcode the audio only to a single 5.1 PCM WAV, open it up in Sound Forge, and edit the individual channels.