Ripping SACDs the right way

**Kal Rubinson** · 12-06-2011, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by LordoftheRingsEE

Kids, grand-kids?

Right but I don't have 2500 of those.

**pepar** · 12-06-2011, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

Sure but what's the point of ripping 2 or 3 discs?

Sounds like you've made up you mind.

**NorthStar** · 12-06-2011, 05:01 PM

2,500 SACDs Kal?

**Kal Rubinson** · 12-06-2011, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by LordoftheRingsEE

2,500 SACDs Kal?

It is an estimate. I passed 2000 about a year ago and they keep on coming.
Only 4 grand-kids, though, and no more expected.

Originally Posted by pepar

Sounds like you've made up you mind.

Yes until there's a better, faster way.

**NorthStar** · 12-06-2011, 07:58 PM

"...they keep on coming." How so?

**Kal Rubinson** · 12-06-2011, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by LordoftheRingsEE

"...they keep on coming." How so?

I keep ordering them.

**Bruce B** · 12-06-2011, 09:39 PM

I've probably ripped about 4000 over the past 3 years.

**billh** · 12-07-2011, 06:17 AM

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

Yes until there's a better, faster way.

We can hope that Oppo will add SACD-ISO or DSD streaming to the 93/95 at some point: A recent firmware update now allows DVD and BluRay ISO streaming from attached USB device. Whether Oppo does this or another company probably depends on how much demand they get from folks wanting this.

The actual ripping of the SACD-ISO is fairly straightforward, simple and can be somewhat automated now thanks to Mr. Wicked and the PS3. Getting it from DSD to PCM is much more time consuming - at least for the multichannel discs. And if Korg ever adds multi-channel ability to Audiogate, then the MCH process will be a lot easier.

**billh** · 12-07-2011, 06:28 AM

Originally Posted by pepar

Isn't the cool factor of flipping through cover art on your display and pressing a button to listen worth some investment in time?

This is the nice thing about FLAC: You can use album art and all manner of tagging to your heart's content to create really sophisticated play lists and so forth. This is a big advantage over wave, ISO and other lossless methods.

**Bruce B** · 12-07-2011, 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by billh

I wound up using Pyramix to convert the DSD to AIFF (176.4/24bits) and then converted the AIFF to FLAC with Foobar and then MP3TAG for tagging the flac files. I then backed everything up to an external drive and uploaded to my NAS.
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Just wondering why you're going the extra step of DSD->AIFF->FLAC, when Pyramix can create FLAC files?