Trying to rip Redbook audio from Dreamcast games

vajuvaju

05-17-2014, 04:11 AM

I have Re-Volt (Dreamcast version) loaded up in Foobar but when I play the CD-Audio Redbook tracks, I hear just clicks and pops. I’ve had no problem ripping PSX Redbook games with Foobar (for instance, the PSX version of Revolt works fine). Is there a special method for extracting Redbook audio from DC games?

dissident93

05-17-2014, 11:03 PM

are you 100% certain it’s Redbook audio? alot of Dreamcast streamed audio was in the ADX format, which can’t be played like normal Redbook.

EDIT: I just checked josh.w’s archive (http://dsf.joshw.info/r/), and they are encoded as mp3 files (which means they weren’t in the ADX format originally, as the archive only uploads the rawest form they can be extracted as).

vajuvaju

05-17-2014, 11:34 PM

I know. The joshw archive always has the redbook rips converted to MP3. They don’t plan on uploading lossless rips due to limited service space, so I want to do it myself.

vajuvaju

05-24-2014, 04:02 AM

So, I figured it out. The trick is to find a disc rip that has the Redbook files stored in *.raw format. You can load the files in Audacity using the Import Raw Data option (make sure to select 16-bit, two channels, 44100 audio) and then export them as *.wav. 🙂