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Hi Guys, After playing around with digital audio de-embedding/capturing for sacd playback & backups, (), I've come to the conclusion that this method is subject to the quality of the DSD2PCM conversion step in the players used for the process - and that in the 3 players I've tried, the converter chips were a compromise. I'm now focussing my energy on extracting DFF files off the SACD discs. This will give me a straight file copy of the music files.

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I can then do what I like with them. Convert them to PCM using software then playback using my current solutions. The biggest benefit is having backups of the music/discs, many of which are long OOP. There is a solution under development to do this extraction, it's called sacd-ripper. Information can be found here. To this point sacd-ripper has been a Linux app, which needed a Linux O/S installed onto a suitable PS3. But the project is now developing a native PS3 app, that will execute from within the GameOS PS3 operating system (as long as it has the LV1 patch).

This thread will document the process of achieving backups of my sacd's, by using sacd-ripper (native ps3 app version). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Update @ 18-June: Sacd ripping using a PS3 is now working, using a pre-release version of sacd-ripper (taking iso images of the sacd layer is stable). The details on what is required are; 1) Obtain a sacd capable PS3. For the suitable PS3 model numbers click here- 2) Make sure the PS3 is at firmware version 3.55 or less (versions >=3.56 cant be rolled back, and cant be used for sacd-ripper) 3) Apply the OtherOS custom firmware update, required for sacd-ripper. OtherOS is available from here- - Notes; there have been some reports of OtherOS bricking some players, use at your own risk.,,,instructions for applying OtherOS is documented here-,,,note, the downloaded OtherOS firmware image will need to be renamed to PS3UPDAT.PUP in between steps 4/5 in the documented process above. 4) Obtain the PS3 sacd keys and load them into the root of a USB stick/drive, available here- 5) Obtain the latest SACD-RIPPER package and load it into the root of a USB stick/drive.

Not currently available in pre-compiled form, information can be found here- 6) Make sure you have a USB stick/drive that has enough capacity to store the rips (4gb minimum), needs to be formatted as FAT32. --------------------------------------------------------------------- sacd-ripper download link: Update @ 11-July: compiled sacd-ripper r252 pkg (stable beta release) can be downloaded here; --------------------------------------------------------------------- scarletbook download link: Update @ 9-July, compiled scarletbook release r252 available here; Info: scarletbook.exe is a Windows application that can be used to extract individual tracks out of an ISO image that was taken by sacd-ripper. This utility is useful, if you want to minimise processing time on your PS3. The older PS3's are known to have overheating issues leading to the dreaded YLOD failure. In my case, I intend to minimise the usage of my PS3 by restricting it to taking ISO images only, and then using scarletbook on my pc to extract the tracks and convert them to PCM(wav) files.

--------------------------------------------------------------------- SACD ISO Decoding in Foobar: Update @ 17-July, SACD ISO images created by sacd-ripper can now be played back in Foobar natively, with no file extractions or conversions required using a plugin called 'Super Audio CD Decoder'. The first step on this journey to rip SACD's, is to find a suitable PS3.

I've been loaned a PS3 with firmware 3.56 by a fellow forum member, and have been granted the license to try and rollback the firmware to an earlier version. No mean feat. There are plenty of instructions on the internet, some are bogus. Has anyone got any experience rolling back their PS3 firmware? The author of OtherOS has produced a youtube clip, which guides the user through loading the OtherOS custom firmware, and subsequently Linux (which his firmware is usually used for). This clip seems to suggest that formatting the PS3 harddrive will let the user then load their firmware of choice.

But it's not that clear. I'm not sure if it's just wiping and starting again with the same firmware level (#), or whether it will let me roll back to an earlier version. Here's the clip. Upu6X3m8rV0 Has anyone on SNA done this? Can you offer any advise?