Movie2Snd is a very simple application that extracts soundtracks from QuickTime movies.
Drop-launch a movie onto the application (or choose a movie from the open dialog). You will be prompted for a location for the resulting sound file. That sound file is a plain ol' System 7 sound file that can be played by opening (double clicking).
Note: if you see an alert "Unexpected error: -2009" this means that the movie didn't contain a recognizable soundtrack (and that the sound file created is useless). There are two main reasons why this might happen: 1) the movie simply doesn't have a soundtrack 2) the movie's sound is MIDI (a.k.a. QuickTime Music). Movie2Snd cannot convert MIDI music tracks into a sound file because QuickTime has no support for such a conversion.
You can use Movie2Snd to extract sounds from audio CD's. The ability to convert audio into a movie is built into QuickTime 1.5 and later. It depends on the capabilities of Apple's CD-ROM driver and therefore may not work with 3rd party CD-ROM drives. According to Apple, "you must have an AppleCD 300 or 300i CD-ROM drive connected to your Macintosh," although it should also work with newer models as well. I don't know about the PowerCD.
To extract a sound from a CD:
• Choose the CD from the open dialog and select the track you want.
• A Save As dialog box will appear asking you for a save location for the intermediate movie. Switch back to your hard drive.
• Use the Options button to select the sample you want.
• The audio will be converted to a QuickTime movie
• A second Save dialog box will appear, prompting you for the location to save the sound file.
• You can delete the temporary QuickTime movie after the conversions are done if you've no reason to keep it.
For those interested in a program with the same functionality, but more features (support for AIFF, control over sample rate, compression, stereo/mono, etc.), check out SoundConverter by Kip Olson, included as a part of the latest QuickTime SDK from Apple http://quicktime.apple.com/ordering-apda.html (no, I don't know if it's available elsewhere).
History:
Version 1.1.3 hopefully finalizes the memory problems, working correctly under all versions of system software.
Version 1.1.2 fixes problems that occur under System 7.5, causing not-enough-memory warnings.
Version 1.1.1 was not distributed.
Version 1.1 added better error reporting and uses so-called MultiFinder memory, so it doesn't need a large memory partition. Note that large movies still require large amounts of memory. Check the "Largest Unused Block" under "About this Macintosh" in the Finder.