iTunes/WMP like tool for Ripping/Tagging/Management of FLAC Music

[+Fahim S. MVC]

Hi,

I plan to buy a SONOS system fairly shortly. My music is currently all stored in Windows Media Lossless which the SONOS doesn't seem to support. For lossless music, I believe it only supports 3 formats: Apple Lossless, FLAC and WAV.

I really don't want to put iTunes onto my computer if I can help it but still want the ability to tag my music with ID3 type capability. I think that leaves FLAC as the only choice.

I am looking for a one stop piece of software similar to what iTunes and WMP do for the ripping and management of ALAC/WML but for FLAC. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

[Lare2]

Media Monkey

Give media monkey player a try and see if it encodes to FLAC. it should do it. and its a great music manager

[shakey_snake]

foobar2000

• Secure ripper, comparable in quality to advaced tools like EAC
  (although it has fewer options, it's much easier to use)
  
• plethroa of flac tools
  (converting between track-at-once and disc-at-once file, embedding and removing cuesheets for images, ReplayGain, etc)
  
• converter will let you convert to virtually any format
  (including wma if you need something to convert your files with)
  
• Cd burning support using nero, if need be.
  

(flac BTW, uses Vorbis comments for metadata, not ID3)

Edited November 8, 2008 by shakey_snake

[+Fahim S. MVC]

Thank you both for your suggestion (and for the correction shakey_snake).

Do both of these tools also do disk level management of the files?

i.e. renaming the files according to the metadata and organising them into a suitable folder structure.

[shakey_snake]

foobar2000 makes that sort of thing a cinch.