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'Anydvd HD' rips blu ray. You have the choice of ripping to a hardisc folder or to an iso. I rip my blu rays to a hardisc folder the use DVD Audio Extractor to extract the audio. Then there is no need to have the disc continually spinning. If you choose to rip to an iso, you can mount the iso then use DVD Audio Extractor to extract the audio. Note that using DVD Audio Extractor on blu ray is different that using it on DVD Audio. When you rip DVD Audio the disc is required to be in the drive and Anydvd must be disabled.

So far I have used DVDAE to extract audio from 6 blu-rays. Very easy. All with no problems whatsoever. My method is as follows: 1 - Use AnyDVD HD to 'Rip Video DVD to Harddisk' 2 - In DVDAE set DVD source to 'Folder' then browse to the rip from step one 3 - Choose desired chapters/streams I can confirm DVDAE only extracts the core of DTS-HD MA. Using my Storm Corrosion blu-ray, JRiver plays/displays DTS_HD MA 24-96, DVDAE shows DTS 24-96 but DVDAE only rips 24-48. Not a big deal because there is also pcm 24-96 on the disc(see below). Note that to play DTS-HD in JRiver you need to add dtsdecoderdll.dll from Arcsoft TMT (see JRiver Wiki about blu-ray) Note that to view the correct info about DTS streams in JRiver, you need to look at the 'Audio Path-Input' by viewing the DSP button. The stream selection will only show the core of the DTS (whatever is read from the header, or something like that) My blu-ray content as shown in JRiver: Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion dts-hd ma 24-96-6ch (DVDAE rips at 24-48) pcm 24-96-6ch pcm 24-96-2ch Nine Inch Nails - Another version of the truth ac3 32-48-6ch ac3 32-48-2ch Nine Inch Nails - Beside You In Time TrueHD 24-48-6ch ac3 32-48-6ch ac3 32-48-2ch Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize DTS-HD MA 24-48-6ch pcm 24-48-2ch Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts pcm 24-96-2ch Trent Reznor - Social Network pcm 24-96-6ch pcm 24-96-2ch

Spawn (the movie) Underworld (the original, not the sequels or prequels) The Crow (the original, not the sequels)

I haven't come across any HD metal downloads. You may have better luck trying to find DVD Audio. In the next couple weeks i am going to post a list of my HD audio. It may have a few things that interest you. I'll call it something like "Music For People Under the age of 50".

I have 3 external drives for my music. I have one connected to my pc at all times and alternate the other two for backups. One stays at home and the other at work. I have never lost a song. The problem with only using two drives is that if the main drive breaks during backing up then all is lost. The problem with raid is that is not immune from house fires or theft. In between backups I also keep a copy of new music on my pcs hard drive. Three drives are cheap and actually not much trouble. Every few months I copy my music before bed and the backup is ready to take to work in the morning. USB 3 is nice for doing this. It cuts the time in half. Since Maxtor was bought out by Seagate, I switched to WD. I have 13 external drives and haven't had any problems with any of them. During long backups I put a small fan near them. I think dropping and overheating are the main causes of failure.

I’m not sure what exact comment you don’t understand, because my rant was quite long. I agree high res digital downloads are awesome and I’m not opposed to buying HD downloads. I buy all I can. I like how FLAC seems to be the standard and i hope it stays that way.

No, and that is the problem.

Long time reader, first time poster. I was about to ask a question but got distracted by this topic. I think many commenters have misguided excitement. The general move towards higher quality audio is exiting, but apples approach, not so much. I like the CNN article. “online music stores could eventually offer songs that sound truer to their original recordings, perhaps at a premium price” Truer? True is the word Audiophiles should be looking for. “Perhaps”. Thats funny. Try “absolutely without a doubt at a premium price” “audio can be compressed further in order to minimize the time the music will take to download” “minimize the time”. Thats funny too. Try “audio can be compressed so that we can slowly uncompress it a little every 5 years until it gets to the quality you enjoyed in the 80s with CDs”. Time and bandwidth issues are both a joke compared to the traditional methods of pressing, packaging, shipping and retailing. I’m betting the new format will be a mix of 16 bit and 24 bit, but only at 44.1 or 48, then in 5 years you can buy the same music at 96, then again at 192. They will blend HD music will CD quality music so that people won’t realize that they have upgraded their music 3 times in order to achieve the quality they could have had with a CD. Instead of “lossless” they will market it as something like “iTunesHD”. High quality music is good, but this whole upgrade process seems strange to me. The comments here, in general, show that people are excited to upgrade their music and hardware. Doesn’t this bother anyone? I would expect these comments from the general public that doesn’t care about quality and only wants a shiny new toy. This is an audiophile website. I don’t understand why anyone here would even consider having iTunes on their computer, or why they would even consider using an iPod. I can understand buying an iTunes exclusive for your favourite band, but other than that, why would any of you buy music on iTunes when the same music is available on CD. Am I the only one that sees this? Are all commenters taking crazy pills? How can iTunes music be involved in the same conversations as $5000 dacs? I don’t understand why anyone here would use any media player other than J River, Media Monkey, XBMC, or Foobar. I don’t understand why anyone here would use any portable device other than one supported by Rockbox. There should be an antiCASH list with iTunes, and all its proprietary formats on it. I will end my rant here. All questions have been rhetorical, so need to defend yourselves. Great website. Very useful with very helpful people. Boo iTunes.