Semplice Version 2.11 Released

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 Several years later, the tables have turned, the original has been withdrawn and I'm forced to revert back to using the fork!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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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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