This must have been discussed before but I'm wondering what people here
are using these days.

I've sort of managed with the Microsoft WMP offering until now but I'm
sure there are better library managers around. Advice for me to generate
a short list would be appreciated. I'm probably going to be looking at
MediaMonkey and Foobar2000 which happen to be freebies. Any others I
should check? Free would be nice but not essential.

My current preference is to save as FLAC. Some 50% of my current
collection is 320k MP3 (others are mostly .wav) so I will have to rip
quite a few CDs again (hundreds) to get FLAC versions. This needs to be
a quick and painless procedure with online access to artwork and
metadata where available. Would also need manual entry of artwork etc.
I've scanned quite a few vinyl sleeves and use these files in my WMP
setup. Want to reuse them where appropriate.

Whatever I use must be a dnla server.

The library manager should be able to convert any existing uncompressed
files in my WMP library to FLAC.

To be able to sort and display using physical locations as well as by
metadata. Sort results to display as text and/or artwork.

Ideas, comments?

Thanks.