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If the disc tray does not open, that's failure to ignite and that must be addressed first before anything else. Nothing else can happen until you make the player read the script and auto-open the disc tray.
Fortunately, that one is likely easy to solve, we've come across this what seems like hundreds of times now, and why it happens is not completely within our control upfront, but it is very easily fixed.
First, you cannot put a zipped folder onto the USB flash drive, it must be unzipped. The resulting unzipped folder called AutoScript is what you put on the flash drive.
This means you need an outer/enclosing folder called AutoScript at the root of the USB flash drive, housing the other 3 items. For whatever reason, certain browser/OS/settings combinations will zip the AutoScript folder for download, even though it is tiny. Upon unzip, some browser/OS/settings combinations will discard that outer enclosing folder called AutoScript, assuming you only want the folder's contents. You need the folder called AutoScript (note I said folder, not to be confused with one of the files inside of it which is also called AutoScript).
You do not want any other additional enclosing folders, only that one called AutoScript, that is what goes at the root of the USB flash drive. If you have the folder structure right, the disc tray will surely auto-open, and also auto-close with A1neo.
The remote control is needed to ensure you have the Quick Start mode enabled in the player's OSD menu settings. You could use an existing universal remote with the Sony Blu-ray IR codes programmed, or if you have an Android smart phone or tablet, you can also use the Sony app called
Video & TV SideView for Android
, however unfortunately it appears the iOS version of the app has been withdrawn.
Does your USB flash drive have an LED activity indicator? If it does, I'd say go ahead and correct the folder structure as described above, get the disc tray to auto-open, and have an SACD at the ready to drop into the tray. Let the tray auto-close, and if the previous owner had already enabled the Quick Start mode, then you don't need any remote and in about 10 seconds after the disc tray shuts, you will see the LED activity indicator begin to blink, meaning an ISO is being written to the flash drive. Once complete, the disc tray will auto-open again (around 15-20 minutes depending on the runtime of the disc).
We suggest NTFS formatting is best for AutoRip, because some SACDs with multichannel content will produce an ISO file size as large as 4.7GB, which exceeds FAT32's 4GB limit.
While AutoRip is easy, you still need either a software media player compatible with playing ISOs, or you have to extract .DSF tracks from that ISO using the very same software (SACDExtractGUI) that is used for the network sleep-server ripping method.
In all likelihood you are going to need that software in any event, because AutoRip will refuse certain discs that have so-called special characters authored into their metadata, not uncommon with classical music titles, but rare with anything else unless the metadata was not authored in English (i.e. certain SACDs produced by record labels in either Europe or Asia).
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