I really love the sound system in my car.  In fact, because of it I've bought more DVD Audio discs in the past few months than I've bought CDs in the past few years.

However, I was at Starbucks a few weeks ago and a DVD version of Nirvana Unplugged in NY caught my eye.  I'm a huge fan of the album and thought it would be great to hear it in surround sound.  So I bought the DVD and popped it into the sound system and it wouldn't recognize the disc!  I at least had expected it to start playing the audio and let me fumble around with the controls until I found the audio track I wanted.

Anyway, I haven't ripped a DVD for probably at least 7 years, so I haven't kept up with ripping technology.  I've been searching for a package that can rip the audio from a DVD disc, but it seems as though the only thing that it will do is convert it to stereo MP3.  Let me tell you, it's a pain to search the web for "DVD Audio" since the word audio is of course not not exclusive to high-fidelity format.  Searching for "Super Audio" (a DVD-Audio competitor) yields much better results.

DVD Audio itself seems to be a dying format.  The only software package that actually makes the discs seems to be an unsupported Sonic Systems piece of software.  No wonder no one releases albums in the format.