SACD rip now possible?...or do I miss it?

Posted by: T38.45 on 07 February 2016

http://www.monoandstereo.com/2...-sacd-extractor.html

Can one rip SACDs now and what kind of gear does it take? Or is this still not possible because of the drm stuff they build in?

ralf

Posted on: 07 February 2016 by Aleg

The rip is still only possible with the one method via Playstation.

This piece of software uses

Input Format: SACD Disk Image (ISO Format)

Platform: OS X

it only performs extraction and conversion, and there are freeware programs for that purpose.

Posted on: 07 February 2016 by T38.45

Hi Aleg,

many thanks for clarificarion.... you're right, there are some freeware offerings out there to convert iso to dsd/flac...

Posted on: 08 February 2016 by Claus-Thoegersen

It seems you still need an old ps3 with old firmware to make the iso file. If you have the iso file it should be possible to get playable files from there.

Fortunately I think I have 1 SACD so not that big a deal for me at least.

Claus

Posted on: 08 February 2016 by T38.45

Right...I read the specs again....makes no sense to me because there is plenty of freeware to convert iso to dsd/flac...

There are still some SACDs out there where you can't get the DSD files to download, but I will not buy a PS3 to get it;-))

Posted on: 08 February 2016 by Dan43

Is there anywhere selling DSD rips now from this SACDs, there are a couple I would like also, but to be fair is it enough for a HiRes Company to get the rips and sell?

HDT now do DSD but not the music I am particularly after.

Posted on: 09 February 2016 by sjbabbey

Dan,

the PS3 ripping of SACDs is very much like CD ripping i.e. there would be copyright issues involved and I'm sure that Sony wouldn't be too happy about it either which is why this was disabled in later versions of the PS3.