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SACD unsupported file format

I recently aquired a digital music album box set it's not split up into several disks it's a single sacd flac file. I have the sacd input plugin but it wont play. I get unsupported file format, it's a dvd audio .iso. What gives, any ideas? Thanks in advance. Rick

Re: SACD unsupported file format

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What is it?  A flac file? - then it's not DSD from an SACD.
DVD-A?  Then it's not DSD from an SACD
An .iso?  Then it may be an image of an SACD.
If you didn't build the .iso yourself or buy an SACD .iso you may not really know what it is - there are plenty of people that are labeling random things SACD even tho at best they are sourced from the CD layer of an SACD.

There are two DSD plugins that I know of: the DSDIFF Decoder which AFAIK converts .dff files to PCM and https://sourceforge.net/projects/sacddecoder/ which recognizes .dsf, .dff and .iso and will output DSD either as raw DSD or as DoP for DACs that can handle them.  Read and follow the instructions in the zip file, it's not just a foobar2000 plugin...  I'd also recommend foo_input_sacd-0.8.4.zip at this point, the 0.9 series will be nice but they aren't quite ready for prime time in my experience.

If it's really a DVD-A file, there's another plugin for DVD-A's, tho since I don't use it I don't know where to get it right now.