SACD ISO and Roon

Raymond_Ho · August 16, 2018, 10:57am

Hi everyone, is SACD ISO supported by Roon? If not, is there any plan to do so? Thanks.

cwichura · August 16, 2018, 11:12am

Not ISOs. You’d need to convert to DSF.

Mike_O_Neill · August 16, 2018, 11:27am

There has been much talk, (pressure) for this as one of the main competitors supports this . Equally CUE and FLAC ie single big file plus CUE sheet is not supported but is a very common rip format.

Currently in both cases some pre conversion is needed

Mike

Carl · August 16, 2018, 10:46pm

Checkout Brian’s post the the DSO ISO Support topic.

Raymond_Ho · August 16, 2018, 11:27pm

Thanks guys, reason this subject piqued my interest again was that Cary DMS-500 just released a FW update allowing SACD ISO playing, so I thought Roon might have something coming too, I guess it’s not the case.

Larry_Post · August 17, 2018, 1:09am

It’s trivial to convert them,

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

Raymond_Ho · August 17, 2018, 2:04am

Thanks @Larry_Post, I have done a few myself, the Sonore file is a different and I must say cleaner gui front end linking back to the same sacd_extract.exe

Ripping ISOs is the way to go for the long run, but having the ability to read off ISO is a very convenient feature to have.