Can MakeMKV Make Most SACDs Playable on My PC's BD Drive?

[zoom+slomo]

I don't own only any SACDs, and hope that when I do start collecting high res versions of my favorites I will find most of them here.
https://www.hdtracks.com/#/album/5df142 ... c09bc163fd

In any case, most forums say this is impossible and that only standalone players like the Oppo, Marantz, Pioneer, et al can play SACDs-and that using the right software it's then possible to rip them and save select high res tracks to some kind of file format.
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/ ... 7/page-274

[flojo]

... I will find most of them here.

... only standalone players like the Oppo, Marantz, Pioneer, et al ...

Makemkv can't as far as I know.

As far as bulk ripping, I seriously doubt anyone has a large enough SACD collection to warrant a loader application since availability is very low. I've ripped a few with a BDP-s390 and BDP-s5100 and a Playstation 3 and between the three I think the BDP-xxxx units are the easiest. That said, I think you'll have to modify the little distro that exploits the BDP players to open/close the tray at will and to also power cycle the unit (if I remember correctly). An exploited PS3 can already do that but you would probably want to change the self-feeding drive to a tray loader, which is no easy task. The BDP's and PS3 allow you to rip over the network, so the potential for a loader application is there.

There are plenty of tutorials to convert from DSD to WAV to something you prefer.

[zoom+slomo]

... I will find most of them here.

... only standalone players like the Oppo, Marantz, Pioneer, et al ...

Makemkv can't as far as I know.

As far as bulk ripping, I seriously doubt anyone has a large enough SACD collection to warrant a loader application since availability is very low. I've ripped a few with a BDP-s390 and BDP-s5100 and a Playstation 3 and between the three I think the BDP-xxxx units are the easiest. That said, I think you'll have to modify the little distro that exploits the BDP players to open/close the tray at will and to also power cycle the unit (if I remember correctly). An exploited PS3 can already do that but you would probably want to change the self-feeding drive to a tray loader, which is no easy task. The BDP's and PS3 allow you to rip over the network, so the potential for a loader application is there.

There are plenty of tutorials to convert from DSD to WAV to something you prefer.

Stereophile's Kal Rubinson often refers to numerous SACDs in his hardware reviews, which presumably are in his collection. I know that he does rip them and stores at least select parts of them on a server. He plays them on a multichannel system using a Merging Hapi DAC. I've never thought to ask him how he actually rips them.

But when you use those Sony BD players to rip SACDs can you only do so via their analog outputs? And do you rip and save a track's stereo or multichannel version?

And what's the issue with opening/closing the player's tray "at will"? What's to stop you from simply using the eject button on the remote or front panel?

[flojo]

The players rip the SACDs to a .iso, there's nothing analog happening.

I mentioned the eject button because some of the "AutoScript" rip kits you put on the USB will have a "autorip.sh" script that will automatically open the door and rip to USB... you'll have to actually use it to understand further.

The other 2 tips I will give is that discs can have identical meta data for multi-discs sets so you can easily overwrite a previous rip, so try to use a $RANDOM number in the directory you're tipping to. Lastly in order to rip over a network you'll have to remove the line "./sacd_extract* -I" from the "autorip.sh" file, then it doesn't auto-rip to USB so on your computer you can rip over the network with something like "./sacd_extract -I -i192.168.1.10:2002 -o "./ripdir" (the rip kit's server uses port 2002 by default). After that, you'll wind up with a .iso that you can dump to DSF: ./se -s -z -2 -m -i"./ripdir/disc.iso".