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by newsoftheworld
Wed Sep 03, 2025 7:41 am
Forum: LibreDrive drives
Topic: Recommended Optical Drive - Sep 2025
Replies: 6
Views: 518

Re: Recommended Optical Drive - Sep 2025

To bad you updated the firmware pioneers are the best [/quote] Hi Billycar11, Thank you for your reply. I flashed it myself, my mistake, thinking I need to stay on top of all updates. I hadn't realised that the firmware couldn't be erased and another firmware installed. Most things on a computer ca...
by newsoftheworld
Wed Sep 03, 2025 7:28 am
Forum: LibreDrive drives
Topic: LibreDrive for Pioneer drives
Replies: 1606
Views: 1261660

Re: LibreDrive for Pioneer drives

Your firmware is too new. Pioneer released firmware dated December 2022 specifically to disable MakeMKV's support for ripping UHDs with Pioneer drives. All firmware after that date disables MakeMKV's ability to rip UHDs and prevents the firmware from being flashed with an older version or different...
by newsoftheworld
Tue Sep 02, 2025 8:14 pm
Forum: LibreDrive drives
Topic: Recommended Optical Drive - Sep 2025
Replies: 6
Views: 518

Re: Recommended Optical Drive - Sep 2025

...not fussy about reading second hand cd's. For UHD you should try to get a Pioneer and see if you can get it flashed to Libre. Hi Flojo, thank you for your reply. I currently have a Pioneer BDR-XD07TS (Mfd Dec 2020) which I mainly have used for ripping CD's but also some DVD's and Blu-rays It has...
by newsoftheworld
Tue Sep 02, 2025 5:29 pm
Forum: LibreDrive drives
Topic: Recommended Optical Drive - Sep 2025
Replies: 6
Views: 518

Recommended Optical Drive - Sep 2025

Hi All, New to the forum. Reading through this forum it seems like it's easy to make a mistake when buying an optical drive as some drives can be upgraded to UHD and some can't. with this in mind I had been considering the options below. option 1: ASUS BW-16D1HT drive inside a Vantec NexStar DX2 USB...
by newsoftheworld
Tue Sep 02, 2025 1:26 pm
Forum: LibreDrive drives
Topic: LibreDrive for Pioneer drives
Replies: 1606
Views: 1261660

Re: LibreDrive for Pioneer drives

Hi All, Apologies in advance if this has already been answered somewhere. I have a Pioneer BDR-XD07TS (Mfd Dec 2020) which I mainly have used for ripping CD's but also some DVD's and Blu-rays. I had wanted to upgrade it to be able to read UHD discs if possible? Drive Information
 OS device name: /de...