So I started the long journey finally of converting all my MC (multichannel) discs to FLAC so I can stream them over my Apple TV using Plex. Blu-rays and DVD-A have been easy peasy. SACD of course is a more difficult process. After researching quite a bit I decided to keep it simple and got a Sony BDP-S590 from ebay and downloaded Autorip and put it on a USB stick and ripped my first SACD (Depeche Mode's Violator, which contains stereo and MC).
I took the resulting SACD ISO file and put it on my computer to convert to FLAC. I decided to use Foobar2000 to do that but after completing the process I ended up with a FLAC file with only the stereo track on it, no MC. I don't know how to verify if the ISO file even has both stereo and MC tracks. If it does have both, then the issue would be to selectively choose the MC track for converting to FLAC. I do have a MAC also and could use the Sonore programs (not sure which one(s), but probably ISO2DSD and/or DSD2FLAC) but don't want to deal with transferring files between PC and Mac as my PC is connected to the SSD I use for Plex.
Any suggestions/input on the best way to get the MC tracks off of the SACD ISO file and convert it to FLAC? I do like the Autorip on a USB stick method and would like to keep using that method to rip the SACD.
I took the resulting SACD ISO file and put it on my computer to convert to FLAC. I decided to use Foobar2000 to do that but after completing the process I ended up with a FLAC file with only the stereo track on it, no MC. I don't know how to verify if the ISO file even has both stereo and MC tracks. If it does have both, then the issue would be to selectively choose the MC track for converting to FLAC. I do have a MAC also and could use the Sonore programs (not sure which one(s), but probably ISO2DSD and/or DSD2FLAC) but don't want to deal with transferring files between PC and Mac as my PC is connected to the SSD I use for Plex.
Any suggestions/input on the best way to get the MC tracks off of the SACD ISO file and convert it to FLAC? I do like the Autorip on a USB stick method and would like to keep using that method to rip the SACD.