(Keiron) wrote in message . com...
I've ripped most of my CDs to my PC's hard drive, using EAC and
storing as WAV (uncompressed) files. Sound quality, via the optical
out and into my Rotel 1066 processor into my Dynaudio speakers or Stax
phones is fabulous. (...)
If so, what's the
best replay software to use that bypasses any processing?

I use Media Jukebox (http://www.musicex.com/mediajukebox/), and I like
it.


And while I have your attention, what's the best player to use to
"manage" a WAV library. Most seem to be built around MP3s. The only
one I've found that lets you "tag" WAV files (ie add album name,
artist, genre etc) is iTunes - but as stated I now have reservations
about the sound quality this produces.

You'll be wanting to losslessly compress your WAVs with Monkey's Audio
(http://www.monkeysaudio.com/) - it supports tagging (and works
seamlessly with Media Jukebox). Plus, you'll be saving ~50% of your
disc space if you drop the uncompressed WAVs.

I think that the WMA file format also supports lossless compression,
but I don't know if it supports tagging. Regardless, I see no reason
to swap from Monkey's Audio.

Steve.