DaveX

I did get .37 installed on the PS3, still no luck.

If I want to play the occasional bluray disc is it worth making sure it's a Darbee?

Thanks! Do the Oppos have to have the D at the end to work as an SACD ripper?

I've looked through quite a few pages of this thread to see what players would and would not work. I don't see any sort of table, the only ones that consistently seem to work are the Oppo 103D and 105D. Are there any others?

I've been using a PS3 to rip SACDs for quite a while with success. I recently picked up a few more and four of them would not rip. I updated to the latest sacd_extract and that fixed all but one, which happens to be a two disc set - Janos Starker playing Bach Cello Suites. The package on the PS3 is version 3.6, I thought updating that to 3.7 might help. I put the package file, md5 file and the keys directory onto a blank USB drive and plugged it into the PS3. The PS3 says there are no packages to install. I tried several time, no change. So I tried the first disc of the set again and it ripped. The second disc still will not rip. When I run sacd_extract with -P it reports Response result non-zero or disc opened, libsacdread: Can't open 192.168.1.71:2002 for reading. Any thoughts?

Foobar2000 will do what you want. It's what I've been using. I'm just now starting to play with Audiogate to see what, if any, difference in quality there might be.

I use SyncBackPro. The best $50 I've ever spent on software. I use it for backing up everything including making 256 bit AES encrypted backups of all our data onto a portable drive to store at a neighbor's house.

I assume JRiver will do what you need to do after you get the MLP files extracted with DVD-Audio Explorer. The sound quality would be the same for Foobar2000 or JRiver or pretty much any other player.

DVD-A is pretty easy. I use DVD-A Audio Explorer. Open the Audio_TS file on the disc, the program shows you what's on the disc including the format, bit depth and sampling rate. Select the tracks you want to extract, click on the disc icon, pick your destination, check Store and Ignore stream encryption then Go. When it's done you can open the files in Foobar2000, convert them to FLAC or whatever you like in bulk, then add tags and rename the files using the File Operations > Rename to, and enter %track% - %title% if you want your tracks to be formatted as track number - cut title. If you've already got the disc in another format with the tags the way you want them you can copy those tags to the new files with a couple key strokes. Foobar makes a lot of this very easy after you get to know it.

Like many others I found this site and thread while looking for a way to rip SACDs. I purchased a PS3 on eBay, contacted Ted B for his guide - which is remarkably well written and complete, thanks! - and started by installing OtherOS. It would not install through the PS3 menus even though the firmware was at 3.50. I ended up using the recovery method which seemed to work fine. After the firmware update I went to settings to verify that the new version was 3.55. It was, excellent! Then the unit froze, including the screen. I waited to see if it would recover, then powered it off forcefully, waited a second and turned it back on. Now there is no video output on HDMI or composite. Any suggestions?