Another way is to use dBpoweramp to rip CD's onto your computer or external hard drive. dB converts the rip directly to FLAC, WAV, AIFF or mp3.
What I do is rip 16/44.1 cd's directly to wav. For online purchases, I download flac files to my internal computer hard drive, do the meta data editing in dBpoweramp and then copy the edited flac file to my Aurender internal storage. Then I use dBpoweramp to convert the flac file to wav on the Aurender drive. The flac files are saved as backup on the computer hard drive compressed so as to save space.
What I do is rip 16/44.1 cd's directly to wav. For online purchases, I download flac files to my internal computer hard drive, do the meta data editing in dBpoweramp and then copy the edited flac file to my Aurender internal storage. Then I use dBpoweramp to convert the flac file to wav on the Aurender drive. The flac files are saved as backup on the computer hard drive compressed so as to save space.