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Good evening fellow audiophiliacs, normally I don't bother with the CD-DA layer of Super Audio Compact Discs at all (occasionally a PCM rip for my car stereo). Today I skipped the regular SACD-Ripping process of producing playable material for the PC and inserted the SACD into one of my optical drives for a quick listening test. Imagine the shock and awe moment I had, when the disc DID NOT turn up as the expected ~500MB CD (PCM layer), but as a 2.4GB DVD instead: Immediately I checked the disc in 4 other drives (2 BD-RE, 1 DVD+R & 1x DVD-ROM), the result was always the same the hybrid disc comes up as CD-Audio (=the expected behaviour). Only my Toshiba HD DVD-ROM (IDE->SATA) drive and the Microsoft XBOX 360 external HD-DVD drive (USB) can read the DSD layer. To make a long story short here are the requirements for direct SACD Playback / Ripping on a PC: 1. a Super Audio-CD with additional file systems (e.g. UDF) (presumably releases from the early years of the format, lacking some or all of the three encryption and copy management properties) 2. a HD-DVD ROM drive (dig out your Xbox 360 addon drives!) 3. a neat piece of SW for playback (foobar2000 + SACD plugin) or ripping (SACDExtractGUI) On Linux or macOS you would have to rip the SACD to ISO first, as sacd_extract can't open the disc directly (yet). disc read attempt: libsacdread: Can't read Master TOC. ISO readout: Disc Information: Version: 1.00 Creation date: 2000-03-23 Catalog Number: SACD 83493 SA Locale: en Title: Merry-Go-Round Artist: Freddy Cole Publisher: Telarc Copyright: Telarc Album Information: Catalog Number: SACD 83493 SA Sequence Number: 1 Set Size: 1 Locale: en Title: Merry-Go-Round Artist: Freddy Cole Publisher: Telarc Copyright: Telarc Area count: 1 Area Information [0]: Version: 1.00 Area Description Phonetic: Freddy Cole Track Count: 11 Speaker config: 2 Channel Track list [0]: Title[0]: Watching You, Watching Me Performer[0]: Freddy Cole Title[1]: It's Impossible Performer[1]: Freddy Cole Title[2]: Merry-Go-Round Performer[2]: Freddy Cole Title[3]: I Remember You Performer[3]: Freddy Cole Title[4]: Forgive My Heart Performer[4]: Freddy Cole Title[5]: Through a Long And Sleepless Night Performer[5]: Freddy Cole Title[6]: If You Went Away Performer[6]: Freddy Cole Title[7]: Take a Little Time To Smile Performer[7]: Freddy Cole Title[8]: I Realize Now / I Miss You So Performer[8]: Freddy Cole Title[9]: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Performer[9]: Freddy Cole Title[10]: You're Sensational Performer[10]: Freddy Cole Last but not least, I hope this thread can serve as a catalogue, where users can report in their findings on "consumer-friendly" SACD-releases. Good night!