david elias

Ted thanks for this great convenience. Portable SACD recordings is part of the way things are now so having the DSF files available on mobile media is great (laptops with JRiver for me as well as iPhone 5S with Onkyo HF and OPPO HA-2). I have been answering some questions for friends via email so that I'd post a few things I'm sure appear on these pages already but just to try to keep it in one place... The ISO2DSD is not required. It is a convenient GUI to launch the sacd_extract catcher on the client (PC/Mac) side but this can also be done directly with the sacd.cmd file from a DOS CMD box or Mac Terminal. If you want to extract using the sacd.cmd file directly from a command box, edit it to include the -s argument instead of the -I. This outputs DSF instead of ISO. Another thing this Java GUI does that is convenient is extract the DSF files from a single ISO file (for those who captured originally to ISO but want to play or backup as single DSF track files). I was not able to read the ISO files directly from other tools I usually use for that purpose. ISO files play directly from JRiver if desired, similar to Foobar. So that's convenient and they can be opened as a Media file (I'm using Rev 20). This single ISO file will then present the included stereo as well as Mch files, if they existed on the SACD. Yes.. be sure to disable Auto Play and Resume from the Audio setup on the OPPO first. It can hang the OPPO otherwise if you try to start extracting while playing a disc at the same time. If the OPPO hangs just press and hold the power button for 5 seconds or more until it shuts off the OPPO. I'd advise using a fresh clean USB stick to launch the AutoScript folder on the OPPO side. I used one with a few other files on it and found later that Win 10 could no longer read the USB at all. OPPO still reads it fine. --------------- One question I had for those involved here or anyone else is might it be possible to run both the server and client apps from the same USB media/drive and simply offload the ISO/DSF files directly to an SSD or other USB storage media directly from the OPPO? I haven't tried this yet but am guessing it might be possible. My standard use is to extract an SACD to an Artist-Album folder as DSF files, then move that from the receiving notebook PC to a connected SSD drive. Would be simpler to just attach the SSD drive to the OPPO and run AutoScript from their if the client thread could be running as well. Again many many thanks for this great convenience and utility.

There are 2 problems with trying to zip large audio files. First, they don't compress as the data is already compressed (like trying to zip JPG or TIFF graphics files, the total combined file size won't be smaller - in fact sometimes the resulting zip file is a little bigger than the other files added sizes.) Second, most web download systems like Dropbox and Hightail (formerly YouSendIt) have file size limits of either 2GB or 4GB. The combined stereo DSF files for an album are often bigger than 2GB (avg maybe somewhere around 150MB per song - just a guess). So either the web download won't accept a file that big (Mch DSF audio files are more than twice as big as DSF stereo) or it just doesn't make sense to try to download a single file that big because the Internet is not that reliable for long connections and if anything goes wrong (which it might!) you can lose the whole thing and have to start over... If you have a Dropbox account (2GB is free) you can try to save a single Zip file (not recommended or often not possible >2GB) or move each song to your own Dropbox (recommended). From there you can download it to your own local drive or USB stick. Here's a link for a free Dropbox account. http://db.tt/hbuo9mo I agree with you about all 3 file types: MP3-320 very good for the size and using in smartphone or tablet for example; FLAC - I can't get that excited about them either; DSF - blows everything else away! I have used the Korg MR-1 and MR-1000 for stereo takes and mastering with AudioGate. But all 3 DSD album downloads I have now were recorded to Sonoma DSD workstations (1 in Boulder at SuperAudioCenter.com and 1 in La Honda at Slipperworld - Audio Services - HOME) Hope that helps... - DE

Just wanted to thank everyone for their support. I'm happy to share the tracks with the audiophile community and working with OPPO has been a very good collaboration to be part of. FYI, all 3 DSD albums I have are globally available as both Stereo and Multichannel DSD downloads from my web site David Elias - Independent Acoustic Music since 1995 - DSD Downloads -- included are DSF, 24/88.2 FLAC and MP3-320 copies of each song with metadata to try to take care of all players and situations. Thanks again and Aloha! - DE