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.wav to .flac conversion using MAC OS X

I'm exhausted from looking on the net without finding a solution and I need your help. I have 300GB of .wav files stored on a hard drive after spending a long time ripping my CD collection. I need to convert them to .flac and save them on another drive for backup. I used xACT to do the conversion and things were great until I added the albums (I did one album as a test) to PLAY, a music software that plays .flac files. The songs were added without any properties (name, album, artist). Please keep in mind that the files are stored with the names example Money.flac.
If any one has come across a similar problem and found a workaround, please help me.

thanks,

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kublakhan
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My understanding is that you can't convert from wav to flac or to any other lossless format and keep track titles, etc. I think wav files don't contain metadata which is what you're missing when converting to .flac. at least that was my understanding before i decided to not to rip wav files. hopefully i'm wrong.
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shadorne
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Yes you will lose album info in this process. Wave files have no information in them about the album.
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sufentanil
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WAV files do have some ability to store that information, although it is not standardized like FLAC. Often the program that ripped the WAV file will be able to read its own title, album its that it placed in the WAV. I'm not sure of options for the Mac, but MediaMonkey on Windows worked surprisingly well for me in converting WAV->FLAC and preserving the information from WAV files that were recorded using MusicMatch.
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