![]() But having so many SACD discs on hand, I’ve always dreamed about being able to add those to my digital music library for convenient playback. However, the cost is prohibitive, so I haven’t gone all-in with DSD downloads. I’ve purchased a number of high-res downloads - including some DSD downloads (about a dozen). I don’t play them as much as I’d like, because I’ve pretty much become a slave to the convenience of streaming digital music. And I’ve added more in the decade since then, bringing me to a total of about 400 discs. By the time the major labels pulled the plug on the format in 2009, I had amassed a collection of over 300 titles. My experience with SACD was that its playback was revelatory no other digital disc could come close to providing the level of clarity, organic purity, and very nearly analog-like sound quality. Fortunately, manufacturers and record company reps were keen to get information about the new technology out there, and were very accommodating when it came to getting hardware into the hands of reviewers. I also received discs from a multitude of smaller labels who were eager to jump on board the SACD bandwagon - and I didn’t even have an SACD player at the time. ![]() In the year following SACD’s release, John Sunier (the now-deceased editor at AA), offered me what would prove to be a ridiculously generous and nearly unlimited flow of SACD discs from all the major record labels. SACD offered great promise, with many technological positives the only real downside being the somewhat prohibitive cost of the discs and players. I wrote my first piece for Audiophile Audition in 2001 the SACD format had been unceremoniously launched the year before to very little fanfare. Why a nearly-dead, niche technology like SACD, you may ask - my involvement with it goes all the way back to my very first gig in audio journalism, twenty years ago at the old Audiophile Audition website. I first became aware of this about three years ago, and have followed its progress with great interest, although I haven’t had the tools available to me to make this happen until just a few weeks ago. ![]() I’m departing from my usual review format to focus on a developing technology I’ve been following for several years now, which is the ripping of SACD discs and the extraction of the Direct Stream Digital (DSD) layer. Apparently the code writers/hackers in the world agree with me, and it’s really great that we can finally transcode just about any digital file type that exists to ensure compatibility with ever-evolving audio equipment. I’m a firm believer in fair use when it comes to audio media - if you bought it, you own it, and you’re free to do with it as you please - as long as it’s for your personal enjoyment and you’re not trying to sell it illegally for profit. Seems like this method extracts songs (titled 'Chapter 1', 'Chapter 2', etc.). I think this disc has the original stereo mix and a Steven Wilson remix (which is the only one I really want). Altho there's two multichannel and two stereo sets, need to figure that out. PPS: OK I see how to do it, I think !!! Can select multiple chapters, and the description "MLP 24/96 2 channel" should extract only the stereo tracks. seems that YES I can extract several files at once, I just need to figure out how to get only the stereo Audio ones and not other stuff. maybe there's a way to do this within Audio Extractor, but maybe that's asking too much. I'm assuming I have to 'stitch' files together (and slice out songs) to make individual 24/96 song files from these extracted files? Not a big issue but of course if there's an easier way to do things. Woo Hoo! So it will play on my stereo too.Ĭool !!! OK, it basically 'cuts off' in the middle of a song, I assume 1.07GB is the max/basic file size for the. Looking at the FLAC file in Audacity, I see it's indeed a 24/96 stereo file, and plays on my iMac. The original file was titled "ATS_01_1.AOB" on the DVD-A and is 1.07GB. ![]() Huh, using DVD Audio Extractor (free trial version) I just successfully ripped a 24/96 FLAC from my Yes CTTE DVD-A.
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