Which lossless format?

Ash wrote: Some metadata like album cover and track name can be incorrect and will need to be changed. Where a lot of my albums are Japanese, the information is written in hiragana, katakana and kanji rather than English. I will probably have to translate a lot of metadata. If WAV is easy to convert to FLAC, I might archive in WAV and list all the track information in text documents in case I need to copy and paste it across into the FLAC files although there may be tools that do this for you? What populates the metadata when you play a CD? Your computer connects to an online server, recognises the catalogue number of the disc and pulls the data across?

Thanks. If there were any chance of an audible difference between FLAC and WAV, it would be down to the algorithm of what is decoding it, not due to a difference in the amount of audio data stored. Seems that FLAC just requires an additional step to convert it to L-PCM. I am tempted to use FLAC over WAV as a lot of albums like Bandcamp digital downloads use FLAC. I might just create two copies of each file in both formats, use FLAC for listening and WAV for editing, then I don't have to use conversion tools to go back and forth between them. I might be better off organizing my own metadata for all of my favourite albums and I would be able to consolidate separate works that would have ideally been on the same disc.

You could also stick a small paper dot on the spine of the jewel case.

One thing with dBpoweramp is you can convert any music file to almost any music file out there. I convert to mp3 a lot so I can play it in the car from a USB stick. I can only play mp3 and the Microsoft's file system. It might not be the best, but for me it's easy to use and does what I need.