I guess the idea was that if something happened to flac like new devices stopped supporting it for whatever reason, or if a better lossless format came along, it would be much easier to go back to the wavs and convert them to a different format.
Unfortunately I don't know of any easy way to do that. Mine is all meticulously structured by hand like c:/music/artist/(year)album/01-trackname but then I mostly have full albums these days and not a lot of individual tracks.
It's also useful to use a metadata editor to remove all the "x artist featuring y" because media players will often read these as separate artists, which can get very messy very fast. Personally I just remove the "featuring" part entirely but if you must have it at least include it in the track title instead of the artist.
You certainly can but it would take ages for more than a handful of tracks. It's not practical when there's been automated solutions around for two decades already.
I actually tried doing that when I first decided to start archiving my own CDs. I ripped with abcde to flac but kept both copies. The idea was to keep .wav as a sort of "master" original and then copy the flacs to my phone and laptop for listening. That way if something happened I could always go back to my "masters" without having to rip the CD again.
Honestly the wav files aren't that much bigger than flac and I feel like storage wouldn't be much of an issue today, but I started this project several years ago when an 8TB hard drive was still $600+ and I quickly ran out of space.
I actually do still use an old version of winamp on my PC and poweramp on my phone, but my library now is almost entirely flac. Still working on phasing out some old mp3s..
I like to hate on M$ as much as the next lemmy nerd but honestly they made a lot of great hardware for many years. The M2000 is still my favorite mouse and my daily driver for years. They've also made the best console controllers for years and the competition isn't even close there.
I assume your problem is with the metadata? Just search for a "free mp3 audio tag tool" or similar and you should be able to find several options. Some of them might only do 100 tracks for free but there are workarounds. I've used several of them but it's been years. Nowadays I just rip all my own CDs into .flac with EAC or ABCDE depending on which computer I'm using and let it do the tagging for me.
I just switched a few days ago from NewPipe to PipePipe. As far as I can tell it functions the same but has more features. I didn't care for LibreTube at all.
I'm playing Tears of the Kingdom now and it's the only game that's kept my attention since Dark Souls 3. I am not generally a fan of open world games. Even as a huge souls fan I didn't really care for Elden Ring. But this Zelda game is incredible. There is so much more going on than I expected and it is just plain fun.
Yep, and it's really obvious if you've driven into the state from the east. You find yourself wondering when you're gonna get to Colorado and realize you've been driving in it for 3 hours, it just looks exactly the same as the last 10 hours.
I have a 1 terabyte micro SD card in my (2022) phone that holds my entire music collection in flac format. This isn't the early 2000s and storage space hasn't been an issue for years. The only reason I see this not being more common is the mainstream phone manufacturers decided that you didn't need expandable storage and would rather pay an extra $100 for each measly 128gb of storage they care to give you.
Technically the one I bought on a whim back then was Out of Exile, which I would now consider the weakest of the three, but I liked it enough to seek out more.
Conversely, you buy a CD from a band you've never heard of just because you like the album art or maybe even the title or the band name, and you find out it's a god damn masterpiece from start to finish. This is how I discovered Audioslave almost 20 years ago and it's the best $14 I ever spent. I still have the disc btw and it still plays perfectly.
I guess the idea was that if something happened to flac like new devices stopped supporting it for whatever reason, or if a better lossless format came along, it would be much easier to go back to the wavs and convert them to a different format.