I should have been specific about the speed question: Is the EuFlo program significantly faster than Sonore’s?
This is where lots of confusion reigns. The Sonore program is just a Java-based front end tool known as a GUI (graphical user interface). It allows you to point and click, instead of issuing text based commands on a CLI (command line interface).
You do not need to change Sonore ISO2DSD as the front end GUI tool, but you can if you want to and there is an upgrade available there too, called SACDExtractGUI, which is also a Java-based point and click GUI.
Both ISO2DSD and SACDExtractGUI are known as Java applets, but they are not the actual ripping engine, they merely instruct the ripping engine via point and click.
The actual ripping engine or application that performs the rips is called sacd_extract (Mac and Linux), or sacd_extract.exe (Windows).
All you need to do, as mentioned several pages back to
@J. PUPSTER , is swap out the version of the sacd_extract file you currently have for the updated version. In fact, you can even keep the one you have, you don't need to discard it if that bothers you, just stick it in a temporary folder and place the new version in the ISO2DSD folder.
ISO2DSD requires that sacd_extract file to reside in its folder, you can't place it elsewhere, so you do need to move the old version out in order to place the new one in because they have the same file name, and you can't change it or it won't work.
Alternatively, just leave everything you currently have exactly as is, there is no requirement that anything be deleted, you can keep the Sonore program and the old executable for posterity.
Instead just download and install both the newer
SACDExtractGUI and then
EuFlo's enhanced sacd_extract executable. Hint: scroll to the bottom of EuFlo's repository to reveal the Assets.
Stick the sacd_extract.exe file in the SACDExtractGUI folder, then launch it by clicking the .jar file (with Windows you might have to right-click the .jar and choose Run or Open with Java or some such Windows-only madness).
The last step is to setup SACDExtractGUI's settings, first and foremost you must set the correct path to the sacd_extract.exe file in the Program field.
Now you have not one but two functioning SACD ripping tools, though you will find that the SACDExtractGUI is superior from a functionality perspective, and the new executable won't have any special characters or file path character length errors, plus it checks the disc integrity and ripped tracks for accuracy, and it's a touch faster.
