New soon to be PS3 owner

tony22 · Joined: 18 Jun 2012 Posts: 3

Hi everyone. I'm a long time audio guy who did his CD ripping to a music server many years ago (EAC to FLAC, now dBpoweramp to lossless FLAC). I've been examining the prospect of getting a proper PS3 to be able to store off my SACDs. I picked up a CECH-B01 off eBay. Claimed to be in excellent condition, fully functional, with FW 3.30.

I wanted to get clarification (after I bought it of course! Smile

). I should be able to upgrade to 3.55, install kmeaw's 3.55 version (follow all the instructions), install SACD Ripper, and then be able to rip the SACD DSD layer, yes? I ask because I saw a thread a bit down but on the first page talking about FW version 2.00. Isn't kmeaw 3.55 plus SACD Ripper basically supposed to provide al the same capbilities of getting the SACD data off the disc, so that we don't have to try and track down a 2.00 PS3?

PS3SACD · Site Admin Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 316

That's right. The only unique benefit of FW2.00 is transcoding of multichannel DSD to DTS 5.1 for surround output via optical out but that's likely of no use for what you aim to achieve.

tony22 · Joined: 18 Jun 2012 Posts: 3

Thanks! I just got my B01 today. It powered up fine, and sure enough it had FW 3.30. I installed 3.55, and then I think I installed kmeaw CFW 3.55 - but I'm not sure. I had to do a forced install (after going into Restore mode). It looked like it installed but when I checked the System Info it still said 3.55. Is that correct?

Let me just repeat that I'm intending to make backup copies of my own SACDs, so I hope the following questions are allowed.

How do I know for sure that kmeaw CFW 3.55 is installed?

Is kmeaw CFW 3.55 an alternative to OtherOS++?

I read that the next steps are to install SACD-Ripper, and needing the PS3 root keys. I think I found the ripper program (the executable is called sacd_extract ?), but I'm not sure what these keys are for.

I don't want to get anyone into any trouble!

Brandon B · Joined: 14 Oct 2007 Posts: 392

There's a fairly comprehensive thread at audio circle where you may get more advice:

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=95396.0

tony22 · Joined: 18 Jun 2012 Posts: 3

Thank you sir!