admin wrote: ↑Tue Jan 25, 2022 7:13 pm
I'll continue to investigate this issue further.
Will hope for successful problem solving.
I tried last recommended version (1785). Extraction tracks 5 and 6 as *.dff (352800; +0dB)→ merge as *.dff with cue→ encode as *.wav (88200 -SOX-Very High). Result is on the picture. Nothing has changed, click is there.
I hope that I've understood you correctly.
I merged tracks 5 and 6 directly from the ISO to DFF with switching this option off. Then I encoded two merged songs from DFF to WAV. Click is still there.
admin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 26, 2022 7:01 pm
No need to extract as .dff. Select the CUE/Merge, select WAV as a destination, uncheck that option and press start.
It works. No clicks (I checkesd several ISOs). But there are some issues instead.
1) The process is extremely slow because of single stream encoding (and merging). It takes almost half an hour to get 40-minutes stereo ready on my quite powerful workstation. The result is stereo WAV 88200 Hzx24 bit. O.K. we can accept this as high-res stereo with some assumptions.
2) The bigger problem is with multichannel. I want to convert this later in DTS HD MA and I need for that purpose WAV 96000x24. I can't do this using your recommendation because of other default sample rate by converting SACD. Moreover I want to decide myself what kind of dithering to use. And that is possible only if I use "my method":
Extract tracks as .dff (I use usually 352800 s.r.)
Merge them with cue creation
Encode merged .dff to .wav (96000-24bit) with dithering settings, pause duration, resampler type and so on.
That's why it would be very desirable if you could find a solution for click elimination by extracting DFF.
40 minutes - that can't be right. Are you converting from/to network drive?
It takes me at most 4 minutes to merge a multi-channel sacd to wav (using the local ssd drives).
No. I mean "almost half an hour".
22 minutes exactly for stereo SACD that I sent to you. And 27 minutes for 45 minutes long 6-channel SACD. SSD drives, 32 GB RAM, win 10, no network operations.