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    Posted: June 20 2006 at 20:02
Alright, I'm curious if anyone knows how to rip an SACD (that's not a hybrid) to a pc... as I have an album that I bought used that turned out to be an SACD and I can't put it on the computer... anyone have any suggestions?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2006 at 20:25
It's not possible.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2006 at 20:32
Originally posted by goose goose wrote:

It's not possible.
Actually there is a way, it requires you to use an SACD player and hooking it up to the computer and recording it manually. But I don't have an SACD player, so this purchase was completely useless and now I'm short 10 bucks...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2006 at 20:37
My Moody Blues SACDs work on normal players, I guess your Peter Gabriel album doesn't.

There must be a way, surely?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2006 at 20:40
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

My Moody Blues SACDs work on normal players, I guess your Peter Gabriel album doesn't.

There must be a way, surely?

Oh there is, you'd have to do it the same way you'd rip a vinyl to the computer. You have to connect through the analogues on an exterior player and record them manually through a recording program of some kind.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2006 at 00:08
Cygnus has got it. Computers don't play sacd, but you can plug the sacd player into you soundcard input and record it. You don't need specialised software, windows recorder will do it. Once you have the wav files do with them what you will. Not the best result quality wise, I daresay.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2006 at 00:10
Originally posted by cobb cobb wrote:

Cygnus has got it. Computers don't play sacd, but you can plug the sacd player into you soundcard input and record it. You don't need specialised software, windows recorder will do it. Once you have the wav files do with them what you will. Not the best result quality wise, I daresay.
The quality isn't great unless you have a quality recording program, which I'm lucky to have. Now all I need is an SACD player and I can do it...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2006 at 10:01
Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by goose goose wrote:

It's not possible.

Actually there is a way, it requires you to use an SACD player and hooking it up to the computer and recording it manually. But I don't have an SACD player, so this purchase was completely useless and now I'm short 10 bucks...

For sure you can record the analogue outputs, as with any audio source. But it's still not possible to rip the digital information!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2006 at 07:36
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

My Moody Blues SACDs work on normal players, I guess your Peter Gabriel album doesn't.

There must be a way, surely?
If they're the same Moody Blues SACDs as mine, they're hybrids.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 23 2006 at 04:32
Originally posted by goose goose wrote:

Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by goose goose wrote:

It's not possible.

Actually there is a way, it requires you to use an SACD player and hooking it up to the computer and recording it manually. But I don't have an SACD player, so this purchase was completely useless and now I'm short 10 bucks...

For sure you can record the analogue outputs, as with any audio source. But it's still not possible to rip the digital information!

This is true.Wink
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