SACD ISO: Knifing a Fork!

NOTE: This article was originally published in 2021. It compared the Sound Linux More version of the 'sacd' utility with its original source, the Robert Tari-written program called odio-sacd. Unfortunately, as of July 2025, Robert Tari appears to have disappeared off the Internet: his software repositories have all been pulled and are now publicly inaccessible. The comparison was therefore valid four years ago, but is no longer relevant: the odio-sacd software is simply unobtainable, whilst the sacd utility remains easily downloadable. Any recommendations made in 2021 to use odio-sacd should therefore now not be followed.

I will note that the original article's mentioning that 'sacd' relies on Intel/AMD CPU features and that odio-sacd did not still applies. This means that using sacd is not possible at all on Raspberry Pi single board computers using ARM CPUs. [...] 

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