Ripping wav and tagging wav files

[Guest]

I am trying to build a library of my CD collection using WMP11 so I can use
Media Center Edition as my music archive player. I have some 300+ cd's
already riped to .wav files using J. River Media player on one of my hard
drives. Since I did this before WMP had the ability to rip in wav. All of the
file info ( albums,artist,etc...) was lost since J.River stored this info as
a library data base file and I no longer use J. River's player. The files are
however riped into folders by the path artist/album/songs so browsing via
folders with wmp11 is productive hower this is not possible in media edition.
I now have begun to rip new cd's to wav using WMP11. I am a purest and do not
want compression. How is WMP11 so call taging the wav file? Is there a way to
permantly tag the wav files I have already riped not using WMP11? I spend
days updating and finding album info and art for all my files thinking WMP11
tagged the files like it does when I rip a file. Then needed to reinstall my
operating systems and as you guest all of my beautiful and accurate music
library vanished. I would of backed-up the library data base file if I knew I
needed to and knew what file to back-up. So does WMP11 attach meta data to
the wav file when the file is riped but stores meta data in the library data
base when you manually update media? Also all of my wav files have one
folder.jpegs and three AlbumArt.jpegs but still no album art shows when I
browse folders in WMP11. Why? Will upgrading to Vista improve any of this?

 

[Nil]

I am a purest and do not want compression. How is WMP11 so call
taging the wav file?

WAV files don't usually carry tags. I've been told there is some
limited provision for them, but it's not very standardized and few
applications will read them. If you want to avoid lossy compression
schemes, you should consider a lossless compression, in particular,
FLAC. FLAC compresses WAV files to 1/2 to 2/3 their original size
without compromising the audio data. FLAC supports ID3 tags, and I
think album art. WMP10 can be made to play them, but it seems to not
display the tags. Winamp deals with them correctly.