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

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JimH:
Is the tick at the end of the track in a predictable spot?

Awesome Donkey:
This is the part that fixed it in the sacd_extract fork: https://github.com/setmind/sacd-ripper/commit/f16bbe1e7bf108a6d3f0c26b3a4d193d3a68dbbb

And yes, MC is affected with pops/click noises at track transitions as well if you do any sort of DSD conversion, though I don't know the reason why it happens in MC. How I understand the sacd_extract issue is that using zero padding at the tail end of the DSF track causes a pop/click noise at the track transition. The fix the sacd_extract fork uses is to avoid the use of zero padding by carrying over the leftover samples to the next track, or something like that. I could be completely wrong. :P

JimH:
Thanks.

dtc:
Some people have reported reducing the clicks by using the option to play silence at the beginning of the track. You can also try changing the time between tracks. Probably will not help, but worth a try.  Also try playing from memory. Again, probably will not help, but anything is better than re-ripping everything.

Awesome Donkey:
Yeah, it doesn't help since the clicks/pops are present in the files themselves at the track transition. It's most noticeable in the two Pink Floyd SACDs when ripping them to DSF with the original sacd_extract, since the tracks segue into each other and you can hear the pops at the transition points. Unfortunately re-ripping from the SACD ISOs is the only way you can fix it.

How you can fix it by re-ripping from the source SACD ISOs is: 1) Rip the files to DFF which has its own issues due to lack of metadata support. 2) Rip the files to DFF then boot into macOS which has an app called dff2dsf which repackages a DFF file to DSF without any sort of conversion. 3) Using the sacd_extract fork which has the issue fully fixed for DSF files, which allowed me to not have to boot to macOS anymore to fix the issue.

Using the sacd_extract fork, those two Pink Floyd albums I mentioned segue into each other perfectly when using gapless playback, not a single pop is heard!

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