Converting FLAC to WAV and keeping tags?

Interesting, will try keeping an open mind on that.

Ivan,

I wasn't trying to push that info on you in any way, I was just going by what seems to me, is popular opinion. Nothing more. I also forgot to mention one other format. Apple lossless. A lot of people seem to really like that one as well. If you are using iTunes for a player, it would make sense to give it a try. I don't know if any other players support it, though. For me its not an option because I use Linux.

AIFF is fairly universal. Like WAV, it is derived from an old Amiga IFF format and stores the data in lossless uncompressed.

Doggiehowser is correct on both posts. I've preferred WAV, but do not want to deal with the tagging issues. I use mostly AIFF, while keeping some WAVs.

AIFF for me too. While I haven't done any head-to-head comparisons, these days storage is so cheap that I prefer to stick to an uncompressed format - and of course AIFF doesn't have the tagging problems of WAV.

On one of my back-up drives I keep all of my downloaded music (HDTracks, Qobuz etc) in FLAC format to save time and space Essentially I download in FLAC format, transfer the FLACs to a back-up drive, and convert the FLACs to AIFF for my primary drive.

I don't have enough time or patience to compare the two formats and don't really trust such testing anyways. I just reason that if fidelity is the ultimate goal, there is absolutely no advantage to unzipping during playback.