Dark Side Of The Moon has been released in SACD format only, ignoring DVD-Audio.

Maybe because they don't want AC3 or DTS quality rips of the 5.1 tracks spread all over the internet, I don't know?

Anyway, I was wondering if there is a software version of an SACD player, like the Creative version for DVD-Audio thats bundled with the Audigy2 ?

I've been hanging for the 5.1 release of this album for years, and now it seems the only way I'm going to enjoy it, is to buy and expensive hardware player that's practically non-existent here in Australia.

To my knowledge, there are no solutions for high-definition SACD layer playback on computer. Not yet. And maybe never.

is this still up to date?

i need such a softwareplayer too

You're still out of luck.

It is NOT a software problem, but a hardware one!

FYI: You can get the "quadraphonic" 4ch DTS release of Dark Side of the Moon.

Haven't Sony shut down their project to provide DSD hardware support end-to-end (from recording to playback)? I think it's time to declare DSD and by extension SACD to be dead. It's a shame though.

It's both. The lack of PC hardware to read out data and the lack of software able to decrypt & decompress the stream. It's a long way to get the raw DSD stream.

Sebi

Maybe only in the PlayStation 3

SACD is physically basicly a dvd thus it should be possible read one using a dvd drive with haxored firmware but the lack of software player and decrypter would render the effort fuitless.

Yes, that is right. But with some nasty differences compared to a normal DVD. Basically it is something like this: DVDvsSACD. The (strange) difference is in the third block, resulting in the DVD-ROM drive thinking that the disk is empty. (this originates from a correspondence with the author of DVD Decrypter). Besides that, I have reason to believe that the physical track is not a "circular" in shape, but is modulated in shape. The mean is still "circular" but the actual track is not. No wonder why normal DVD-ROM drives cannot even read it! But I am not 100 percent sure about this.

Regards,
Jacco

..so any SACD software around ?
really ?

NO.

It could be because it was originally an analogue recording, so DSD is more suited.

er...no. (What makes you think DSD is 'more suited' to an analog source than , say, 96/24 PCM, which is standard on DVD-A?)