Autorip can't rip certain SACDs... anyone else experience this?

[impetigo]

IMHO, it puts no more wear on the drive than playing. I've ripped >1000 SACDs on my 103 and 105 and they are both still going strong. Besides, I have no need to "save" them because all I do with them is rip. I play only from the files.

If you rip it once, or play it twice, what do you think puts more "wear" on the player.

The Sony cost me $30 and I just prefer to use that to rip SACD since I read somewhere that the ripping process puts extra wear on the players. I only use my Oppos for blu-ray movie playback at this point, now that I've ripped nearly my entire collection of SACD, DVD-A and blu-ray, so I won't be playing any of those audio discs anymore. My 103 and 203 are still considered to be great blu-ray players so I like to use it as minimally as possible.

 

[Atomic Punk]

I have a Oppo 93. Can i rip with that player?

 

[Kal Rubinson]

I have a Oppo 93. Can i rip with that player?

No.

 

[Atomic Punk]

No.

ok thanks. i currently have an Oppo 93 and i bought a Sony 800M2 to share the load for playing my SACDs and DVD-As. i had an Oppo 80 for a long time but it gave up the ghost. i've heard of people playing their hi-res multichannel discs from files and i would like to do something like that to "save" my players. any advice for a novice would be appreciated.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

I can offer only general assistance because all my hand's-on experience with ripping has been with a Sony PS3 or with Oppo 103/105 players.

 

[Atomic Punk]

ok. i've been on the lookout for a 103

 

[timbre4]

ok. i've been on the lookout for a 103

Pricing fluctuates; recommend a saved eBay search for BDP-103. Bought one for $325 on a good day. I also enjoy my BDP-93 on my quad system (supports a 2TB HDD FAT 32 - fewer total files)

 

[timbre4]

Yikes! This was missing from my FLAC hard drives so it got me wondering. Went to another PC where I kept the 2020 SACD ISO files. Sure enough, Agents of Fortune was there waiting for me. Must've missed it on the first go round. So I pointed Foobar at that machine and it's now making my FLACs. Time for a full SACD files verification!

I'm finding other SACD ISOs I forgot to make FLACs of. We are drinking from a firehose I tell you!

 

[impetigo]

There are two different SACDs of Gloria Estefan's Greatest Hits, one is stereo only, one is multichannel. Maybe you have the stereo one?

Darn, you were right. I was so sure that when I went to check the disc I was fairly surprised to see that the disc is labeled "stereo" while the case is "multichannel." Seems like the seller pulled a fast one on me, unfortunately it was a few years ago so I won't be getting my money back.

Also, finally finished my collection of SACDs (which was a kind of sadly small number of only about 100) and only the Beyonce (Dangerously In Love) and the Blue Oyster Cult (Agents of Fortune) wouldn't rip with Autorip. Will have to see what else I can try. I may try it on my Oppo first.

Also, I found from some thread here that the Sony blu-ray players used to rip SACDs generally (all?) are compatible with NTFS formatted USB sticks, so I was able to rip the >4GB SACDs and all is good, except for those two discs. I used the NTFS for Mac by Tuxera (seems to be free if you have a Mac) so I can use it on my Mac as well. Wish I knew this from the beginning.

 

[SACD_ripper]

I've started my SACD ripping project now, not too bad as I only have about 100 discs, but after about 25 SACD so far I've come across two SACD so far that cannot be ripped by the Autorip method (auto ripping SACD onto USB stick using "autorip" script on the stick and a compatible blu-ray player, in my case, a Sony BDP-S590): Beyonce's Dangerously In Love and Blue Oyster Cult's Soldiers of Fortune.

For these, no matter what I do the disc ejects shortly after putting it in during the usual sequence of steps. I gave up and ripped about 10 other SACD and went and tried those two again and they failed again. Anyone come across this problem and if so, were you able to find a solution?

Both of those discs contain special non-English characters in the metadata, the accented e in Beyoncé's name, and the umlaut over the O in BÖC, AutoRip is tripped up by those special characters and the rips fails.

For any discs that contain special non-English characters in the metadata, you have to use the network server method to rip them.

 

[SACD_ripper]

If you rip it once, or play it twice, what do you think puts more "wear" on the player.

The latter of course, and for the record there is no "extra" wear and tear caused by ripping (extra to actually playing a disc that is). That said, if you can pick up a cheap Sony for $25-30 and have that be the workhorse ripper for any kind of large SACD collection, it makes sense that you'd do that and preserve the lifespan of your Oppo player for Blu-ray duty as the quality of the SACD rips is the same, the rips are identical whether using a Sony or Oppo player.