Rip SACD with a Blu-ray player
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Those really do exhibit the best build quality of the inexpensive Sonys, equivalent to the much newer and pricier UHP-H1, or for that matter current (incompatible) models like the UBP-X800m2.
I agree the BDP-105 is much too nice to take on a big workload. If you have a lot of SACDs it makes sense to get a cheap Sony to pull that weight. You could however get started now with the Oppo, rip a few discs, then transfer the task to a Sony once you lay your hands on it. The only change you'd then be making is to the USB flash drive, which will need a different script for Oppo or Sony.
Wow! I'm so happy to have found this forum! Two years ago i got into the whole SACD and DSD thing i have not turned back since. A week ago I read at som other part of the internet about ripping SACD. Today I've got a SONY BDP-S590 but i either haven't gotten the right script on the flashdrive, or i have not managed to format the flashdrive corectly. I've read that on windows formating the flashdrive is problematic. If someone here has any help to offer or guidelines it would help me a ton.
Welcome to HFH!
You should not have to reformat a new USB flash drive, they typically come from the factory formatted FAT32 with Master Boot Record (MBR) and can be left as is. An already used flash drive should also work provided no one has previously reformatted it, thats where the problems often occur, especially with the Windows Disk Manager as that sometimes results in a hidden primary partition.
If you have a flash drive that has never been reformatted, and is 32GB or less in capacity, chances are it will work just fine as is with no need to reformat it. If it is 64GB or larger in capacity, there is a chance it shipped from the factory formatted exFAT and that will not work in a Sony player, you would need to reformat it in that scenario.
With an S590, you can only use the Pioneer-Sony AutoScript version, the link for which is found on Page 2 of this thread. You need the entire folder called AutoScript on the flash drive. On Windows that will look something like this:
That solved the problem! Thanks for the help Mikey! I didn't put the whole folder on the USB drive just the content inside it. That was my initial mistake. Since i didn't want to wait for a new flash drive, I googled around and a guy on youtube recomended a program that can format the flashdrive with MBR. Its called Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way Used it myself and works great.
Outstanding, glad it's been sorted out and you are ripping your SACDs, once again welcome to HFH!
Hello all! Like most here, I recently became aware of the option of ripping my SACDs to DSF files which I can play through my DAC... which led me to HiFi Haven.
First of all, thank you all for this invaluable information resource! I have read through most posts but I still have a few questions which hopefully someone can help with:
First of all, thank you all for this invaluable information resource! I have read through most posts but I still have a few questions which hopefully someone can help with:
- What is the latest/greatest SACDExtractGUI version available out there for Windows? Looks like there are multiple versions available and I would like to be able to start ripping my discs using the best version available. Is setmind's version out-of-date?
- I have a Sony S5100 which hasn't been used in ages. Is it safe to upgrade to the latest firmware available without breaking its ripping capability?
Welcome to HFH!
There is only one version of SACDExtractGUI which is the Java-based graphical user interface that allows us to skip using a CLI or command line interface, however it is not the actual ripping engine, it merely instructs the ripping engine by point and click instead of the command line. You can download the SACDExtractGUI tool from Setmind's Github repository (to use SACDExtractGUI you must install the Java Runtime Environment as a prerequisite).
The actual ripping engine is called sacd_extract (Linux and macOS), or sacd_extract.exe (Windows). While Setmind's version of sacd_extract still works, it is now outdated and this is particularly true of the Windows version of the binary, which has seen the most significant improvements in the form of EuFlo's enhanced version of sacd_extract.exe, that is what you should use to be up to date. You can download the latest version of sacd_extract.exe at EuFlo's Github repository (scroll to the very bottom to reveal the Assets).
Yes it is safe to update the firmware.
hey guys, i was wandering if i could use this incredible tool to rip normal CDs to? thanks!!
No it can't be used for any other disc types besides SACDs.
I really don't recall, that is a very old screen shot that's been reused and reposted many times over the years, and Windows is not my daily driver, I mostly use macOS, and Linux.
I use SanDisk thumb drives for the AutoScript, I think fresh out of the package they are called "No Name", and I probably don't bother changing that in most cases, so they do have a name, it's the one they got at the factory.
Unimportant in terms of ripping SACD, the thumb drive does not have to be named anything particular, however the folder on the root level of that thumb drive does need to be called AutoScript with no exceptions, and you can't change the file names either.
No, but dBpoweramp CD Ripper is an excellent choice for that.
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