Is it possible to rip an HDCD...?

[Goosemaster]

Will dbpoweramp or some other program be able to access that info?

I realize that wma supports really lengthy sampling rates but wasn't sure if anything but windows media player could access it...



A few years ago someone @ HA wrote

Nope, no lossy codec could support HDCD. HDCD works by fooling around with the 16th bit, using it as some kind of morse code to tell the HDCD decoder what to do. A lossy codec is just going to throw that bit away.

M@ HA wrote:

Yes, it is Windows Media Player 9 that supports HDCD; however, if you use Exact Audio Copy to extract the tracks from an HDCD-encoded CD, the resultant WAV files are still "HDCD". That is, they are HDCD-encoded audio, and if you re-write them to a CD-R, your new disc will still have all the aural quality of the original HDCD

 

[Goosemaster]

EAC should be able to pull it off, but can anything else?

 

[amol]

I don't think anyone on this forum knows what the hell you're talking about

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Amol
I don't think anyone on this forum knows what the hell you're talking about