DFF to DSF conversion

[jtwrace]

6 minutes ago, richard kimber said:

I've just bought a DSD iso.  I have extracted the files but they are .dff

 

I tried Miska's dff2dsf linux program, but it gives an error: input file is compressed

 

I'm using Linux - is there any way in Linux to convert these files to .dsf?

Use the Sonore program.  

 

http://www.sonore.us/iso2dsd.html

[richard kimber]

34 minutes ago, jtwrace said:

Use the Sonore program.  

 

http://www.sonore.us/iso2dsd.html

 

Ah.  Thanks very much

[Edmond]

Gentlemen, I'm new here. I apologize in advance if my question has already been answered in the previous pages.

 

I've tried to apply the Mr. Bogi suggestions, under W10 s.o. But I'm not able to obtain the conversion. When I start the batch file "AddContextMenuItem" to obtain the "Sento to..." menu, I obtain only a lot of running black windows that I need to stop before go crazy... I see, into the folder, only one batch file "dff2dsf_multi" and no others... And nothing happens.

 

Can you help me?

 

Regards,

Giorgio -Italy

[bogi]

Hi Giorgio,

 

if you aren't using English edition of Windows OS, then I know one fix.

 

In AddContextMenuItem.bat substitute the line

whoami /groups | findstr /b /c:"Mandatory Label\High Mandatory Level" > nul

with this one:

whoami /groups | findstr /b /c:"S-1-16-12288" > nul

 

[mikey8811]

On 10/1/2014 at 3:00 AM, bogi said:

Atatched you can find my new version v1.1.0. It allows to use 'Send to' menu to sequentially process list of selected DFF files, for example of one music album.

 

 

For users of previous versions: simply copy new files over old ones and run the bat file again. No need to use 'Run as administrator' anymore.

 

Please give me your feedback, any comments and suggestions are welcome.

DFF2DSF_context_menu_Win7_Win8_v110.zip

Bogi

 

Sorry to revive this.

 

I am in the same boat as the OP but am on Windows Vista.

 

Does this version of the software work on Vista?

 

Thanks

[Edmond]

Hi Bogi, sorry for this late reply. I've tried your suggestion but nothing to do. I'm not able to convert  asingle file too...

[miguelito]

Try the utility from 2manyrobots.com.

 

While at it check Yate, the tagging program I use on mac - works with DSF files as well. Fabulous. BTW, I have no affiliation to 2manyrobots, just a satisfied customer.

[jabbr]

I use  @audiventory http://audiventory.com/ to convert from SACD ISOs to DSF.

[ted_b]

6 hours ago, mikey8811 said:

Bogi

 

Sorry to revive this.

 

I am in the same boat as the OP but am on Windows Vista.

 

Does this version of the software work on Vista?

 

Thanks

It's free, so try it.  Nothing to lose.  BTW, why are you still on Vista? 

[bogi]

Correction of my previous post - note it is without the /b switch:

 

In AddContextMenuItem.bat substitute the line

whoami /groups | findstr /c:"Mandatory Label\High Mandatory Level" > nul

with this one:

whoami /groups | findstr /c:"S-1-16-12288" > nul

 

I tested it just now, that works on my PC and most probably works also on non English Windows.

[miguelito]

23 hours ago, miguelito said:

Try the utility from 2manyrobots.com.

 

While at it check Yate, the tagging program I use on mac - works with DSF files as well. Fabulous. BTW, I have no affiliation to 2manyrobots, just a satisfied customer.

 

BTW... The dff2dsf utility is free: https://2manyrobots.com/plaster/

[Edmond]

It should be a good suggestion, but I'm using a Windows System, not a Mac System...

 

Thanks anyway.

[Edmond]

Hi Bogi, thanks for your suggestion, but no way. The format convertion doesn't work. I'm using the Italian version of W10 64bit.

Must I put dff2dsf files into a special directory (like c:\dff2dsf\)? Or is it ininfluent? At the moment the files are saved onto my desktop, into a DFF2DSF folder...

 

Thanks for your patience.

 

Giorgio

[mikey8811]

On 10/7/2017 at 8:26 PM, miguelito said:

Try the utility from 2manyrobots.com.

 

While at it check Yate, the tagging program I use on mac - works with DSF files as well. Fabulous. BTW, I have no affiliation to 2manyrobots, just a satisfied customer.

Hi

 

I copied some DFF files to my Mac and am trying the 2manyrobots app. It mostly works except for a batch of files where it says it doesn't convert DST compressed files. Is there another option to do this?

 

Also, once the files are in DSF, will they be automatically tagged from the track titles or do i need to use Yate to tag them?

 

I do not have a DFF or DSF file player on my Mac so I cannot tell if they are tagged or not.

 

Thanks

[mikey8811]

On 10/7/2017 at 10:55 PM, ted_b said:

It's free, so try it.  Nothing to lose.  BTW, why are you still on Vista? 

Tried it.

 

It installs but when I hit either DFF to DSF in the bold type or in Send To, a black command prompt window appears and disappears very quickly. Nothing happens and I see no DSF files in the same directory.

 

I guess it doesn't work.

 

Why am I on Vista? I can't afford a new computer for now.

[bogi]

21 hours ago, Edmond said:

Hi Bogi, thanks for your suggestion, but no way. The format convertion doesn't work. I'm using the Italian version of W10 64bit.

Must I put dff2dsf files into a special directory (like c:\dff2dsf\)? Or is it ininfluent? At the moment the files are saved onto my desktop, into a DFF2DSF folder...

 

Thanks for your patience.

 

Giorgio

 

I didn't test it with Desktop folder. I would suggest you to try some shorter path like c:\dff2dsf you suggested.

 

My folder d:\tools\DFF2DSF looks like on the attached picture.

I have too less information to be able to reproduce your issue.

[Edmond]

Hello Bogi, I've tried to reproduce your conditions... I've create a folder d.\DFF2DSF\ and I've installed files... I've removed the old settings (with old path) and restart the batch file to create the two bat files. The RemoveContextMenuItem has the same problems seen for the AddContextMenuItem... a very fast rotation of black windows... Have you a good trick to modify this file like the AddContext modification?

 

Thanks a lot!

 

P.S.: at this moment no good news...

[Edmond]

Another question: when converting files, in which folder do you find the DSF files? In the same DFF folder?

 

Thx.

[ted_b]

8 minutes ago, Edmond said:

Another question: when converting files, in which folder do you find the DSF files? In the same DFF folder?

 

Thx.

Yes

[bogi]

Edmond, is your account able to run a program as Administrator?

You could try to open Command Prompt window as Administrator, then navigate to your DFF2DSF folder and then run AddContextMenu.bat, for example:

 

cd /d d:\tools\DFF2DSF

AddContextMenuItem.bat

[Edmond]

Yes, I will try.

 

Thanks :-)

[Edmond]

Hi Bogi, I've made the test... From d:\dff2dsf> I've wrote the sequence: dff2dsf.exe 01.dff 01.dsf... (or "01.dff" "01.dsf")

 

The system wrote: "error: input file is compressed"!!!!!!!!!!!! I've used a normal (I think...) DFF file, extracted from an ISO DSD file...

 

Can you help me?

 

Thanks

[Edmond]

BTW, these DFF files "compressed" are played without problems by Foobar or JRiver...

[bogi]

dff2dsf from Signalyst accepts only DFF files with uncompressed DSD content. It doesn't accept compressed (DST) content.

 

foobar2000 and Jriver Media Center accept DFF files in compressed DST format, but HQPlayer not. The tool dff2dsf from Signalyst doesn't make any decompression of DST content - it simply converts uncompressed DSD content from DFF file format to DSF file format. DSF files always contain uncompressed DSD content. AFAIK no tool to decompress DST content of DFF files is available.

 

To solve your issue you need to re-extract files from your SACD ISO. You have to extract ISO to uncompressed DFF files or directly to extract ISO to DSF files. You don't need to do it as 2 step operation - at first to extract DFF files from ISO with one tool and then to convert them to DSF with another tool. You can obtain DSF files from SACD ISO in a single tool. You can choose Sonore ISO2DSD or my ISO2DSF.

[Edmond]

Hi Bogi,

the problem of malfunction was just about trying to convert compressed .DFF files (which I did not know about existence ...). I found uncompressed DFF files and everything works perfectly!

Thank you so much for patience, for suggestions and expertise.