Andy Hawkins wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Pat Farrell<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Its easy to manipulate them if you have a multi-channel audio editing
program, such as Cakewalk's Sonar. It can mix down as many channels
as you have to stereo. Well, easy if you are used to Sonar. The
package is pretty expensive and has a non-trivial learning curve.
I don't want to mix down to stereo (I could just rip the stereo component of
the SACD to get that I assume). I want (somehow) for the 5.1 information to
be playable through the Squeezebox.
If you just rip the RedBook from the SACD you get only RedBook rates.
If that is what you want, you're done, That is the big claim to fame
for SACD -- backward compatibility
But if you want the high frequency stuff, and wider sampling, you'll
want to use gear that can handle it.
This may involve encoding it into Dolby Digital or some such?
The SqueezeBox only has two analog outputs.
You can push AC3 thru the SPDIF link to an external decoder.
But AC3 is not considered high quality. It was designed for
movie sound effects, etc.
If you want stereo, you have to mix down.
I believe DVD-audio is designed to make this easier.
I would strongly suggest that capturing them all at once is the way
to go. Otherwise you'll have to spend time aligning them before mixing.
Yeah, I thought of that after I posted. Where do I get a sound card with a 6
channel input though? ???
Any place that sells to 'pro audio' such as Guitar Center,
Musiciansfriend.com, zzounds.com. Brands are M-Audio,
E-mu, echo, etc.
All of this is pretty straight forward, but you're probably looking
at $400 for software and hardware, and then it takes time. A lot of
time. I decided that it wasn't worth the time to do my LP collection,
and I have all the decording gear and software already.
--
Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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