Import From Audio DVD ?

I bought a audion DVD a few years ago that was some new kind of high quality DVD audio. It's Tommy by The Who and contains all the songs supposedly in a higher quality. I want to import this into iTunes but I can't. The DVD has a AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS files. Can I use a generic DVD copy program to extract this type of DVD audio into iTunes ?
I tried OSEx without any luck. I also tried HandBrake which read everything off the Audio DVD into a single MP4 file. What I need is all 42 song in individual audio files so I can get them into iTunes.

Since my last anwer I've used OsEx a 'free' /Open Source program, I believe.
It works beautifully - will grab songs from A/V DVDs at Title/Chapter/even angle level very easily
I then use MPegStreamclip to convert the AC3 to AIFF or other useful format which it does very, very quickly on my Intel 20 IMac From there I usually go to iTunes.
Best of luck (and, of course I can't guarantee that this'll work with 'Tommy' but if this plays in a 'normal DVD player it must conform to the DVD Spec and therefore you shave to be able to work with it).
MPegStreamclip also makes it very easy* to 'Break up monolithic 200MB-600MB DVD/AC3 and other files into individual songs...
Best of luck.

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VisualHub (23.32$)
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http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6018.shtml
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Ask your friend to supply you the DVD as a data DVD using either DV or AIC as the video format, burning the DVD as a DVD for a DVD player will degrade the video quality.

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Recently I bought Bias SoundSoap for this purpose but haven't tried it out yet.
To: ThomasG: I am also interested in your results.
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No import from audio cd

itunes - latest version 7.1.1 - freezes on import of audio files from cd, does not matter whether original new cd's or self burned. have to exit with force quit,
when I then try to copy an audio file from the cd via drag-and-drop to the computer, I receive an error message, error -36, telling me that there is aproblem in reading the file.
deleted all itunes preferences in the library folder, did not change anything
then repaired permissions on the volume, great, could import one cd, on the second itunes freezes again.
needed to repair permissions again, great, can import another cd
so now I have to repair permissions every time I want to import audio files
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does itunes make use of other programs in reading
cd's, would it make sense to delete preferences of
such progs?
It doesn't look like that's the case. It appears to all be handled by threads inside iTunes. So I don't think you'd be able to find the preferences to delete.
one more thing, the problem of not being able to copy
audiofiles from cd to hd only occurs when I have
tried to import the cd into itunes, fresh inserted cd
will allow to copy audio files, but once I have tried
itunes, it is no longer possible, so obviously itunes
screws up something.
My guess, and it's just a guess, is that there's a bug in the CD/DVD drive on those machines, or a bug in the driver for that hardware and iTunes causes the problem to show up. If you know someone with an external USB or Firewire drive, you might try borrowing it and see if it works.
You could also try this software:
http://www.sbooth.org/Max/
and see if it behaves any differently. Maybe it accesses the audio in a different way.
I have no idea why it was fine with the old HD, but it doesn't work with the new one. Perhaps it's a question of how some part of the OS gets loaded into RAM because the 120GB drive needs more RAM or something. But that's just another wild guess.
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bye Andrew

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John T.,
You are correct. I probably was not clear in my question.
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The process will be much slower, than Importing from Copies on the HDD, especially an internal HDD.
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http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6010.shtml
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