You could also get a 2WD SUV with zero ground clearance, for some reason that eludes me.
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I use FLAC over WAV 99.9% of the time. It’s still a bit-perfect playback as the WAV. But the metadata options and storage space is where FLAC really shines for me. I have some WAV and some DSD files as well, but very few. So storage space is a non-issue for me anyhow. But years ago when storage was more expensive, it was an issue for many people.
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Wav is able to store Metadata these day’s.
I am 99% FLAC Library and rip everything to FLAC, but I got a number of vinyls that came with free WAV files and I added the Metadata to them using MP3Tag and was a little surprised that it stuck
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Yeah, I noticed that with WAV just last week. But I’ve run into tagging WAV in the past and it was hit and miss, or just didn’t work.
100% my experience, so I am guessing there must have been an updated version of the specification at some point and it completely passed me by
Do you remember why you didn’t convert those to FLAC before adding metadata?
I think it could always technically be done, the problem was that it was not standardized and applications didn’t agree on details. I suppose that’s got worked out as things matured
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I know, wrote some .DOCX generators a long time ago. But of course this applies o legacy .DOC files (or anything else) as well…
But why would anyone use FLAC with no compression in the first place?
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Because I already owned them on CD and had therefore already ripped them as 16/44.1 FLAC files and I wanted a couple of esoteric high bandwidth WAV files in my library once I worked out they could have Metadata attached.
Storage is cheap and I also rip my small number of SACD to DSF and buy the occasional 24/192 when they are cheaper than 16/44. It’s not because I need it (90% of my library is Redbook CD) but because software like Roon allows us to keep multiple versions and master’s of the same album and just choose which one we want to play.
I have probably got 5 or 6 versions of Norah Jones Come away with me from the original CD, to the 2022 remaster and SACD and vinyl box set and I will play different versions from physical media or digital depending on the mood.
I am just another strange person in a forum chock full of strange people.
This might well be true, but maybe the tools didn’t exist or were not utilised by the operating systems.
I would personally not recommend anyone rip to WAV unless they had a compelling reason, but good that the standards are maintained across multiple format’s so it mostly doesn’t matter what makes up your library these days.
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WAV versus FLAC
In 2042 equals click bait 
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I understand the idea of having multiple versions of the same album, and the fact that DSD can’t be stored in FLAC, but I still don’t see the reason of keeping WAVs around when they can be compressed to FLAC. It’s not like you need a different type of container for each different version.
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You’re getting ahead of yourself.
Chunky vs Smooth is the real question that needs to be addressed.
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Marian you are 100% correct with that statement and I can not make any reasonable arguments for doing it.
My dbPoweramp utilities will even put it in a FLAC for me.
I just left it at source for no reason and they still sits there taking up several hundred MB of storage.
As long as it has nothing to do with “it’s not really lossless” or “decoding generates EMI/RFI/ABC/XYZ” or other audiophile angst, it works for me 
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No like I already said I have 90% 16/44.1 FLAC library that I am more than happy with.
We all need a little bit of the esoteric in our life to keep it interesting and WAV is not that 
(DSD and vinyl is)
FLAC is a great format and it took me 3 ripping attempts to get there from the early day’s of mp3128 and it’s probably my format for life.
Roon has a setting which I think is the default setting where Roon will provide the meta data instead of the embedded.
Around 90% of my library is WAV. When I first tried out Roon with my library being primarily WAV, Roon was able to identify practically all of my files. The few that it did not I tagged the info thru Roon.
Before finding out all of what Roon can do, it was what it did with my WAV files that convinced me to go with Roon. Roon is the best when it comes to WAV file identification.
It is a matter of the way that the library structure layout is. Just so happens that the Roon recommendation for library structure is what I was already using.
–MD
The big question on my mind is - can you hear the difference? Can you pick out the hi-res from 16/44?
Before I knew that Roon couldn’t decode my Naim generated WAV metadata, I set the switch to use my metadata. It was a disaster. Mostly on CD multi-disc sets, but artwork was also a disaster! I am more than obsessive about my metadata and it was essentially gone. I have never tried sending my files to Roon with the switch set to ask Roon to choose the metadata, I ought to try that before I try to rerip to FLAC.
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1 switch and this could save you a lot of work.
After the switch change, rescan the folder for changes.
Since you are metilicus about it, you can edit your changes thru Roon.
Only drawback to this is your changes are not embedded in your file, it is in a Roon database.
That is why backups are so important.
–MD