asterisk8 said:
I don't think I've ever heard of someone ripping the audio of a movie to listen to it on its own. ...What inspired you to start doing this, Anchorhead? I'm fascinated!
Oh man, I started back in the early 70s when I was a kid. I used to record my favorite comedians when they were on The Tonight Show. I used a portable tape recorder, which I placed in front of the 12" B&W television in my bedroom. It was my window to the world. I would listen to those recordings over and over. I can still remember some of them, verbatim, even though I haven't heard them in nearly 40 years.
By the late 70s I was recording movies the same way. There was no way to own my favorite films, so that was my solution. Those cassette tapes, coupled with the film's soundtrack would hold me for years. By the early 80s, I'd moved to my Pioneer Laserdisc\Marantz\Teac set up. At that point I was just digging the texture of the audio, since I already owned the films.
Fast forward to about eight years ago and the folks on this very board put me onto the software I still use to rip full-film audio into a single MP3. If I had to guess at numbers, I'd say my audio library consists of about thirty films, ten episodes of M*A*S*H, several episodes of Columbo, a few episodes of King Of Queens, and a few Genesis documentaries\interviews. I've also ripped several official concert DVDs of Genesis. A great way to get high quality live "albums", if you will, that were never released on vinyl or CD.
The richness and the subtleties of films-as-audio are huge in my world.