Do I need to re-rip?

From my experience, comparing sound quality from CD's ripped in WAV versus these ripped in FLAC and then converted into WAV - I would stongly advise you to re-rip your CD collection in WAV. Don;t forget to use quality ripping software and...and then optimize it as well.

All The Best

Simon
Musica Pristina

Thanks for the advice. Guess I need to set aside some time to re-rip. Will use dbpoweramp and save as WAV. Is dbpoweramp free? And will dbpoweramp automatically download album art and tags or will I have to type in info?

I would suggest re-ripping some CDs that you know well and compare them to files that are converted. If you cannot tell any difference, then re-ripping may not be necessary.

There is a free version of dBpoweramp.It will find the tags, but you have to be careful. WAV files do not normally have tags, so unless you use WAV extensions, the tags will not be saved in the file. What player are you going to use?

The dBpoweramp batch converter can be set up to convert all the files automatically.

Next step would be to get dBpoweramp and do some experimenting.

Thanks Steve. Honestly, I give the credit for me being right to you and a couple of other posters who have been very helpful.

dBpoweramp is $38, but there is a free 21-day trial. It supports AIFF and ALAC as well as WAV, FLAC, and mp3. It does automatically download album art and tags, but I find that a certain amount of tag editing is still often necessary. All in all, dBpoweramp is a great program. EAC is a freebie that gets good reviews. I've not used it, but I don't think it supports AIFF or ALAC.