Semplice SACD Woes...

If you have already installed Semplice Version 2, then you can ignore this post, because something has 'come up' which only affects new installs but won't be an issue for any installation that has already been completed successfully.

Thanks to a kind reader from Goa (which sounds like the start of a limerick, but isn't!), I have been made aware of the fact that the developer of the odio-sacd program, which Semplice relies on to be able to convert from SACD rips to other audio formats, has destroyed his github software repository and, indeed, his entire website. This is unfortunate: when Semplice is first installed it pulled down the odio-sacd source code from the now-defunct repository and proceeded to compile and install it for you. That process no longer works, because the repository no longer exists. In fact, it now prompts you for non-existent github passwords a couple of times and then fails to pull down the software anyway. [...] 

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