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I have some SACDs but can't actually play them, even though my dac can do the audio. Is there some way to put the tracks on a computer?
by m463 3y ago
I have some SACDs but can't actually play them, even though my dac can do the audio. Is there some way to put the tracks on a computer?
- smitty1110 3y agoYou should be able to with a PS3 and linux installed. You need a PS3 from one of the first two hardware revisions (the fat body ones), they dropped the expensive SACD reader to cut costs after that.
- LeoPanthera 3y agoThere’s custom firmware for Oppo blu-ray players to dump the raw DSD over Ethernet to a listening PC.
- m-i-l 3y ago> "I have some SACDs but can't actually play them, even though my dac can do the audio. Is there some way to put the tracks on a computer?" As per the other comments, it is technically possible, but not exactly straightforward: if you have access to a compatible BluRay player, you can create a special bootable USB stick, boot the player from that, connect to the player over the network, and use an SACD client to extract the ISO and/or DSF files containing the DSD data. You probably won't be able to play these directly on your media server, but you can use ffmpeg to convert to e.g. 24-bit/88.2kHz FLAC files. If you're interested, I wrote up the process I followed (with links to original sources) at https://www.michael-lewis.com/posts/extracting-multichannel-audio-files-from-dvds-and-sacds/ https://www.michael-lewis.com/posts/extracting-multichannel-... .
- m463 3y agoAmazing, informative, and I can see it will be a rite of passage for some die-hard audiophiles.