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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 21 for Mac => Topic started by: macdonjh on October 26, 2015, 12:04:25 pm
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I have several of the RCA Living Stereo multi-channel SACD reissues. I'd love to rip the multi-channel content to my Mac. Can that be done? I don't care if the ripped file is multi-channel DSD or multi-channel PCM. Can I use my universal player instead of my CD-ROM as a transport with an HDMI cable?
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Sadly, SACD discs require a special drive to read them. Those drives, as far as I know, are only in SACD players. *and* the Sony PS3. But only a certain generation of the PS3 has the SACD capable drives. They sell for more than a regular PS3 because of the SACD ripping capability. To do it with a PS3 requires some special software and stuff. I've only read up on it a little.
Last I checked there was a guy on one of the forums (maybe computer audiophile?) who is building a custom board to try to make an external drive, using PS3 drives, that you can connect to a computer to rip SACDs directly.
It's kind of a silly situation, but that's how it stands today, as far as I know.
Brian.
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If I remember right, ripping SACD discs requires a Playstation 3 using an older firmware.
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Early PS3's only is my understanding. There's more on our wiki.
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Thanks, guys. I did do my search of the WIKI and the forum, so I've seen the older threads about the PS3. I was hoping that either things had changed since those threads were written, or that I was in luck because I didn't care about preserving the DSD signal. What would MC21 do with a signal from the HDMI output of a universal player reading the multi-channel layer of a hybrid SACD? All I want is the multi-channel information.
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What about a HDMI multi-channel audio adaptor? There are modeis on eBay that offer 24 bit 88.2KHz audio output in stereo and multi-channel from a SACD player that provides HDMI output
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What about a HDMI multi-channel audio adaptor? There are modeis on eBay that offer 24 bit 88.2KHz audio output in stereo and multi-channel from a SACD player that provides HDMI output
Are you suggesting recording SACD's in real time via an HDMI connection from SACD player to computer? I personally wouldn't bother. Seems too much like recording LP records onto cassettes in the 80s. :)
Brian.
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Recording real-time? Not really. I have these multi-channel SACDs that I'd like to rip into my digital library. I've got the stereo PCM layer ripped, but I'd also like to get a digital copy of the multi-channel layer, which is coded in DSD. I understand that ripping the DSD layer directly isn't possible. Is it possible to read the DSD layer, convert it to multi-channel PCM and then save those data? I ask about the HDMI output because my Oppo universal player, I think, reads the DSD layer, recodes the multi-channel DSD data to multi-channel PCM and then sends that to an outboard DAC (in this case my processor).
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This guy is working on a project to read/rip SACDs. Unfortunately, his work has been slowed down by recently having a baby :)
http://sacd-ripper.blogspot.com