Ripped my first Blueray Audio disk to music server

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After thinking about this for ages, I broke down and bought all the pieces needed to get the high-res audio files off of the disk, and onto my music server. I just ripped my first Blueray audio disk, the Pure Audio version of Grrr! by The Rolling Stones. To do this I needed to buy a BR drive to attach to my computer, and two software programs.


This is the drive I purchased from Amazon.
Amazon.com: Blu-Ray Player External USB DVD RW Laptop Burner Drive: Computers & Accessories


The software is one program to decrypt the files, and the other extracts the audio files to your hard drive. This link explains the two pieces of software needed.
Computer Audiophile - Ripping Blu-ray The Easy Way


So, how does it sound? Absolutely fantastic. These are the first high-res files I have tried, and they will not be the last. This Blueray Audio is a great idea so long as you rip them to a music server.


Of course, nothing ever works like it should when dealing with computers, so I had these issues.


1. Attaching the BR drive to my USB hub I got an over power error. I had to disconnect the hub, and attach the drive directly to the computer.


2. The software for extracting the audio files showed no files even though they were decrypted. So I used the decryption software to decrypt and copy the BR to my hard drive. This took about 30 minutes, and then the extraction software was able to see the files.


3. After this, it went rather smooth. While not a technical issue, it was a pain in the butt. Since there was no metadata for the files, I had to edit the name for all 50 tracks in the extraction software. Once that was done I selected to encode the 96/24 files in ALAC to cut the storage space requirements in half. I have been very happy with ALAC for CD files, so why change now. Except they won't play. Need to contact Bryston about this deficiency.


4. I then tried one file saved as FLAC. This worked, so I then went through the whole process again of editing 50 song titles, and extracting them as FLAC files.


Once the files were extracted I copied them to backup, and onto the music server drive. Now I can easily select one file, or all files to play.


Life is good. I can't wait for Exile on Main Street on Pure Audio BR to arrive next week. Now that I know what to do, the process should be a lot smoother.
 
Wow! Impressive. Congrats. I'm not sure I would have had the patience to even try this. Glad you were rewarded with your efforts.
 
Very interesting Bud. I was wondering if ripping Pure BluRay Audio was going to be a pain, but it looks like there's a method that's relatively straight forward. So I guess labels that haven't already are now going to completely stop all SACD production and go to BluRay?? Is there an equivalent to DSD for BluRay? I've come to prefer it to hirez FLAC?

Bryan
 
radioactive said:
Is there an equivalent to DSD for BluRay? I've come to prefer it to hirez FLAC?
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If you are asking if an SACD can be ripped then the answer is no. Actually, it can be, but only with a first generation Play Station with original firmware. For the masses, the answer is no. However, Sony is releasing their music library as DSD downloads, so there is no need to copy them from a disk.
 
BlueFox said:
If you are asking if an SACD can be ripped then the answer is no. Actually, it can be, but only with a first generation Play Station with original firmware. For the masses, the answer is no. However, Sony is releasing their music library as DSD downloads, so there is no need to copy them from a disk.
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No, I've done the PS3 thing -- (thanks to Ted and everyone at CA) -- I'm just observing that ripping BluRay Audio produced FLAC. Though not lossy, I prefer dst (DSD) to 24/192 (88, what have you) FLAC. And from what I can tell, the audio is stored as uncompressed PCM -- which would imply you could dump the files directly as .WAV files.
 
Okay. The extraction software offered a number of options to store the 96/24 PCM files, and .WAV is one option. DSD was not an option. I suspect converting a PCM file to DSD does not buy any increase in fidelity. I prefer either ALAC or FLAC since it essentially doubles the number of songs you can store on a drive. The Bryston BDP file players uncompress the files into RAM, and then read those files from RAM for playback.
 
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