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Title: Ripping a HDCD
Post by: tunetyme on December 09, 2009, 01:55:28 pm

I bought by accident a HDCD.  (Didn't read the package closely)  Now I' trying to figure out how to rip it to a flac format.  I have access to a external Blu-ray player.  Does anybody have experience with this?

Thanks!
Tunetyme

Title: Re: Ripping a HDCD
Post by: trhunnicutt on December 09, 2009, 06:52:16 pm

An "HDCD" rips as a normal redbook audio CD.

An "HD DVD" is another matter altogether.

Title: Re: Ripping a HDCD
Post by: ninekit on December 09, 2009, 08:00:34 pm

You can use,

1. dbpoweramp to rip, decode and encode to 24 bit FLAC in one go, OR
2. EAC to rip as WAV+CUE and then CUETools to split and convert into per track 24 bit FLAC files.

Title: Re: Ripping a HDCD
Post by: tunetyme on December 10, 2009, 09:17:16 pm

Thanks!  I have both programs.

Title: Re: Ripping a HDCD
Post by: HiFiTubes on December 10, 2009, 10:16:51 pm

I thought there was a thread here about this recently; maybe on HydrogenAudio.

Redbook is 16bit so they have dithered down to 16bit, and I think it's not even true 24bit when in HDCD mode (when the light would toggle on when using the old HDCD standalone players).

SACD can't be ripped; if ripped it's the redbook layer.

I've been making some DVD-A discs for demo at our club at homes that don't have PCs; mostly out of HDTracks and Linn 24/96 FLACs.