Foobar Sacd Iso To Dff
I usually use foobar to convert ISOs to individual tracks. Convert SACD ISO to individual DSD tracks. Dff, iso's through a software player on a. In my view one issue with Multichannel is how metadata is handled for SACD material. With an SACD ISO the. Converting SACD ISOs to DSF - Best Practice.
USAGE Mac OSX. Download the application and open the folder.
Right click the iso2dsdgui.jar and select open If you can open the iso2dsdgui.jar file, but can't execute a convertion use the Mac Terminal application and change to directory with the sacdextract file in it and run this command: chmod a+x sacdextract. If you can open the iso2dsdgui.jar file, but can't execute a convertion replace letters in the file name that have accent or double dots above/below the letter with standard letter.Requirements: The sacdextract file, version.txt, and the iso2dsdgui.jar file need to be in the same folder, Java needs to me installed, 64 bit OS Windows.
Double click on the file. Linux. Download the application and open the folder. Right click the iso2dsdgui.jar, select Properties/Permissions, place a check in the Execute box, and press close. Right click the iso2dsdgui.jar slect Open with other application and select Jave.Requirements: The sacdextract file, version.txt, and the iso2dsdgui.jar file need to be in the same folder, Java needs to me installed, 64 bit OS.
Howdy I’ve seen a lot of FUD about SACD ISOs vs other DSD delivery systems. I encourage people to experiment and report on their experiences but here are mine: People that convert ISOs to DFF (or DSF) may have some resultant issues. Foobar2000 and JRiver (among others I presume) can play ISOs gaplessly.
After breaking ISOs into separate files there may be resultant clicks/pop/gaps depending on your player’s configuration. I found that I actually prefer ISOs over 10 or 20 DFF tracks. ISOs all have the CD Text track metadata that all SACD have. Theoretically when I get a multichannel playback system I’ll already have the MC versions of my ripped SACDs. But more importantly foobar2000 just let’s me set the stereo section as preferred so I never see the MC sections till I’m ready. In both foobar2000 and JRiver you can just drop a ISO in a playlist and you’ll see the individual tracks split out just as if they were individual files.
If your player is set up to put ISOs into your library then the individual tracks are what you see thruout the player. Foobar2000 can save any meta data editing you might do into a sidecar.xml file (JRiver doesn’t to my knowledge do that yet.) Foobar2000 also can either save the.xmls right next to the ISOs or in the foobar2000 configuration folder sacdmetabase. I keep a checksum of the.iso right next to the ISO so I can check for bitrot. If I stored the edited metadata in the.DFF or.DSF I’d invalidate any such checksum any time I edited the metadata. Tho.flac’s have a better implementation with a separate checksum for the music, checksumming the ISOs is close in ease of use. Pentatone is selling.ISO versions of many of their SACDs.
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Lumin A1 & L1w/LPS on VDH. Ted Smith said After breaking ISOs into separate files there may be resultant clicks/pop/gaps depending on your player’s configuration. In both foobar2000 and JRiver you can just drop a ISO in a playlist and you’ll see the individual tracks split out just as if they were individual files.Ted Hi Ted, How do you configure JRiver (Windows8 version) to reach such user friendly level of ISO integration? In my case, I’ve found a tutorial on JRiver website (it was mainly for Video ISO purpose) and with lot of tuned parameters I can play 1 ISO file bought on Pentatone.
But once done, I’ve never been able to play another ISO file. I added one more in the playlist but the file was not scattered into several tracks. So I used Sonore tool ISO2DSD. It’s ok for one file but unfortunately, it sounds there’s no batch process.
However, all DSF files run flawlessly without any issue (clicks/pops.). The only clicks I have are those produced by the resolution change on my PWD, but it is another story Sure, I would be happy to avoid the conversion and use ISO files as you described it:-) Many thanks! Patrick said Ted Smith said After breaking ISOs into separate files there may be resultant clicks/pop/gaps depending on your player’s configuration. In both foobar2000 and JRiver you can just drop a ISO in a playlist and you’ll see the individual tracks split out just as if they were individual files.Ted Hi Ted, How do you configure JRiver (Windows8 version) to reach such user friendly level of ISO integration? In my case, I’ve found a tutorial on JRiver website (it was mainly for Video ISO purpose) and with lot of tuned parameters I can play 1 ISO file bought on Pentatone.
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But once done, I’ve never been able to play another ISO file. I added one more in the playlist but the file was not scattered into several tracks. So I used Sonore tool ISO2DSD.
It’s ok for one file but unfortunately, it sounds there’s no batch process. However, all DSF files run flawlessly without any issue (clicks/pops.). The only clicks I have are those produced by the resolution change on my PWD, but it is another story Sure, I would be happy to avoid the conversion and use ISO files as you described it:-) Many thanks! Pat Boy I never had to do anything for.iso’s to work out of the box. On the other hand I never do any video so I’m wondering if there might be some conflicting options there. Do your iso’s show up as file type SACD?
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Are the isos, other than the one from Pentatone, good? If you want you could dropbox me (say give me a link in a private message) and I could see if I have any trouble with them. Tho I have played.iso on MC 18, I haven’t used MC 18 for a while. Just on general principles you might want to be using a fairly recent stable version of MC 19.
A random guess: Under Audio Options don’t use “Play files from memory instead of disk”. Ok, It’s my fault, I’m sorry. You are right, just drag and drop. But I didn’t take care to drop ISO file exactly at the right place on “Audio” label in the tree of the left pane (must not be dropped on “Playing now”).
I’m using MC19, the last version. Howether, with my initial method with lot of parameters to tune, in my idea, this method had an advantage because I believe the idea was just to drop the file in a folder scanned by MC19 and automatically imported in your library. No need to “Drag n Drop”. Interesting if like me the PC is an “headless” Windows PC, I’m using only when needed “Teamviewer” from my iMac to control it. ISO detection no longer works for an unknown reason. Thank you to have open this thread, I’ll feed JRMC with ISO files from now.
Ted you said: A random guess: Under Audio Options don’t use “Play files from memory instead of disk” Actually, for another reason I had to deactivate this option in the past. I suspected it cause at some occasions a freeze of the JRMC UI and no sound during few seconds Pat.
Patrick said Ted Smith said After breaking ISOs into separate files there may be resultant clicks/pop/gaps depending on your player’s configuration. In both foobar2000 and JRiver you can just drop a ISO in a playlist and you’ll see the individual tracks split out just as if they were individual files.Ted Hi Ted, How do you configure JRiver (Windows8 version) to reach such user friendly level of ISO integration? In my case, I’ve found a tutorial on JRiver website (it was mainly for Video ISO purpose) and with lot of tuned parameters I can play 1 ISO file bought on Pentatone. But once done, I’ve never been able to play another ISO file. I added one more in the playlist but the file was not scattered into several tracks.
So I used Sonore tool ISO2DSD. It’s ok for one file but unfortunately, it sounds there’s no batch process. However, all DSF files run flawlessly without any issue (clicks/pops.).
The only clicks I have are those produced by the resolution change on my PWD, but it is another story Sure, I would be happy to avoid the conversion and use ISO files as you described it:-) Many thanks! Pat Pat, you can run a batch process with the Sonore ISO2DSD application, but you have to place all the.iso in the same folder and then select them together. Patrick said Howether, with my initial method with lot of parameters to tune, in my idea, had an advantage because I believe the idea was just to drop the file in a folder scanned by MC19 and automatically imported in your library. No need to “Drag n Drop”. Interesting if like me the PC is an “headless” Windows PC, I’m using only when needed “Teamviewer” from my iMac to control it. It no longer work for an unknown reason. I’m not quite sure if I read that paragraph correctly, but I don’t in general, use drag and drop.
I put all of my isos alongside my music in folders that MC19 automatically imports. (BTW importing takes quite a bit of time if you are doing replay gain scanning, etc. Ted Smith said tony22 said Thanks al and Ted. To think all this time I’ve been converting my ISOs to DSF! That’s just why I started this thread – I see the pain people are causing each other by recommending conversions and I wanted people to at least try the raw ISOs.
There may be some downside to straight ISOs for some people, but I don’t what it could be. Ted, there may be one thing worth looking into.
I’m not sure that JRiver actually alters the metadata of the.iso files except for it’s own use. As such, if you import the files to another audio application’s library you may lose any changes to the metadata. Also, I’m not aware of a UPNP server for a NAS that supports.iso files. FYI MP3TAG-v2.59a now supports editing the metadata of.dsf files on a PC. I made a Mac version of MP3TAG-v2.59a and it’s available on my site is anyone is interested. Vortecjr said Ted, there may be one thing worth looking into.
I’m not sure that JRiver actually alters the metadata of the.iso files except for it’s own use. As such, if you import the files to another audio application’s library you may lose any changes to the metadata. Also, I’m not aware of a UPNP server for a NAS that supports.iso files. FYI MP3TAG-v2.59a now supports editing the metadata of.dsf files on a PC. I made a Mac version of MP3TAG-v2.59a and it’s available on my site is anyone is interested.
Jesus R You can’t really edit the metadata of an ISO inplace (the metadata is CD Text). AFAIK JRiver doesn’t yet support sidecars for SACD ISO metadata. Also I don’t know if anything but foobar2000 reads the.xml sidecars that foobar2000 generates for ISOs. MP3tag is great!
Vortecjr said Ted Smith said tony22 said Thanks al and Ted. To think all this time I’ve been converting my ISOs to DSF! That’s just why I started this thread – I see the pain people are causing each other by recommending conversions and I wanted people to at least try the raw ISOs. There may be some downside to straight ISOs for some people, but I don’t what it could be. Ted, there may be one thing worth looking into. I’m not sure that JRiver actually alters the metadata of the.iso files except for it’s own use.
As such, if you import the files to another audio application’s library you may lose any changes to the metadata. Also, I’m not aware of a UPNP server for a NAS that supports.iso files. FYI MP3TAG-v2.59a now supports editing the metadata of.dsf files on a PC. I made a Mac version of MP3TAG-v2.59a and it’s available on my site is anyone is interested.
Jesus R Jesus, thanks. Can you please post a link to your page where this is available? Co-founder and CEO of PS Audio.
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Earlier this week I wanted to convert the few DFF albums I own to DSF. I googled and I found the hFX converter that Maik mentioned above. As far as I can tell, it works as advertised (I’m not technically adept enough to go digging around in the innards of DFF files ). The lite version does one file at a time, which is fine if you have only a few, and the full version is €10.
I encountered only one small problem: the program tells you that it is converting the file, then flashes a short message when it’s done saying that it’s writing the converted file to disk. When I converted files stored on my Synology NAS with the program installed on a networked Windows machine, it got stuck after writing the file. This did not happen when the DFF file was on the same PC where the program was installed. As far as I can tell, this did not affect the converted file; I just had to quit the program and restart. I was able to edit the metadata on all the converted files and those that I have played so far seem fine. I had seen mention of playing iso files in a couple of posts but never really understood this. Today I read Ted’s post at the top of this thread and then read some more, both here and elsewhere on the net.
Magister said 3) you get whatever metadata are included with the original, but you cannot edit these data (normally I add some additional fields such as composer and composition) False, both foobar2000 and JRiver allow editing of the meta data for any track exactly the same as any other tracks. Foobar2000 stores the metadata in sidecar.xml files either next to the.iso or hashed into a metadata directory. JRiver keeps the meta data in it’s library so it’s not as easily transported to another program.
Magister said 4) as of now there is no way to play iso files over an ethernet/UPnP setup without splitting them up False in JRiver. It allows them to be streamed to the bridge just fine (it has a separate DoP flag for each UPnP setup). 1/3 to 1/2 false in foobar2000. AFAIK you’ll need to transcode them to PCM on the fly, but that could be 352.8k. Magister said Since I normally play music stored on a NAS with MinimServer through the Bridge, (3) and particularly (4) mean that for me there’s no immediate benefit to working with iso files.
(I do have a computer with foobar available but generally don’t use it for playback–although gapless would be helpful for certain albums.) At present I have a two-channel rig. I hope to have a surround system at some point, but that may be quite a ways off since it involves the purchase of a larger house. It does occur to me that if I am going to pay a premium for DSD files, I might as well purchase iso’s when available if they include both stereo and surround mixes (as some of the Pentatone albums do). I would convert the iso’s to separate stereo tracks and archive the originals against the day when I have a multichannel setup. I’d like to thank Ted for bringing this topic up. It’s always good to understand all the options with this still-new DSD stuff, even though I don’t think I’ll play iso’s directly right now. I can use JRiver to play iso’s via USB or UPnP as well as I can any other file.
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I like foobar2000 much better, but AFAIK it’s UPnP support isn’t as good as JRivers for DSD. But foobar2000 plays.iso files just the same as.dsf, or.dff’s (for better or worse with UPnP) If you have a computer on the net with the bridge you can use JRiver as a transcoder: i.e. It’s providing the library to the bridge, reading it from the NAS and being controlled by whatever you want.