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Semplice Version 2.11 Released

Posted on by hjr

Today, I released Semplice Version 2.11. It contains the fixes I mentioned were needed last time, namely that the SACD ISO-handling software I had been relying on had suddenly decided to disappear from the Internet and thus needed replacing in its entirety. The fix essentially consists of switching to using sacd as the ISO extractor instead, which is still downloadable -though it doesn't appear to be actively maintained. I've also cloned the sacd repository so that, should that ever suddenly disappear, I'll have my own copy to rely on.

The irony here is that around five years ago, when I first wrote the precursor software to Semplice, I used sacd as the ISO extractor and only switched to odio-sacd when I realised that sacd was a fork of odio-sacd: I wrote an explanatory piece as to why I was, back then, choosing the odio-sacd software over the forked sacd offering. Several years later, the tables have turned, the original has been withdrawn and I'm forced to revert back to using the fork! [...] 

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Semplice SACD Woes...

Posted on by hjr

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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ISO-handling Bug Fixes

Posted on by hjr

If you rip SACDs to ISO files, which I've previously documented how to do, you will subsequently need to be able to split the ISOs out into separate FLAC files, in order to catalogue and tag them properly. If you do, you need to be aware of a couple of bug-fixes that have recently been made to the AUAC script and associated software.

The usual approach I take is to break apart an ISO is to issue the command: auac -i=iso. But that recently failed to work correctly, and here's why. [...] 

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