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The infamous DSD-click and DSF-FLAC conversion and transcoding

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Paul S.A. Renaud:
My library consists of a lot of FLAC albums up to 24/384 and DSD (64, 128). Part of the DSD is directly downloaded DSF files (paid for) and the rest is ripped SACD (which I own and paid for. I use Sonore software to rip the SACD). I play most of my music using the native codec, i.e. I do not transcode anything, except for the iPhone. A common nasty problem I have (and has been discussed a lot), I have are the so-called "DSD-clicks", i.e. there is always an audible click between tracks from DSF-files ripped from SACD. It occurs everywhere, i.e. independent of DAC (Mytek, Oppo, Chord, etc.) and all kind of transcoding software, such as JRiver, Roon, Dbpoweramp, Plex (Plexamp).

Mostly the click is not too loud, but still very annoying when using headphones and/or albums with a lot of short tracks played gapless (oratoria, opera).

Q1: how can I eliminate the clicks entirely?

Awesome Donkey:
Use this fork of sacd_extract to extract DSF files from your SACD ISOs. This fork has the click issue fixed completely. The DSF to FLAC issue is probably unavoidable unfortunately.

https://github.com/setmind/sacd-ripper

Here's a compiled version of the latest commits: http://www.mediafire.com/file/8zrgu401lb78on0/sacd_extract.zip/file

Just follow the instructions on the fork's Github page. What I usually do is I have a folder in the root of my C:\ drive for sacd_extract and inside it I have the executable and an Output folder. I then move my SACD ISOs inside and use this command to extract stereo DSF tracks from the SACD ISOs...


--- Code: ---C:\sacd_extract\sacd_extract.exe -2 -s -z -i"ISO_Name.iso" -o "C:\sacd_extract\Output"
--- End code ---

Something like that works rather well. :)

Paul S.A. Renaud:
Thanks for this. But it means I have to re-ripped all SACDs as I deleted the ISO's. So 500 to go. :o :'( ::) ?

TheShoe:
yup - you do.  i actually back up all my SACD ISOs as it's good to have backups!  and space is cheap (relatively).

i can confirm this solution works by the way - i had the same click issue until i used the forked version of sacd_extract

Awesome Donkey:
Yep, unfortunately you'll have to recreate the DSF files from the source SACD ISOs, as there's no way to 'fix' it in the bad DSF files.

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