OldSnowMan

I have been fighting wav metadata for a year. I screwed up and ripped 500 cds into wav through Windows Media Player. I know that was a huge error on my part...now! I ripped everyting from my everyday laptop, into an Exteral hard drive. It worked fine with 98% automatic album art/info. But often the albums get all screwed up with no artwork, zillions of Unknown Albums, and messed up tracks. I have managed to get the metadata back and everything looks good, but I am not sure what I did to "fix" the info. I have the basic questions: 1 I now understand that when my original ripping system crashes, I can not transport the metadata and albums to a new computer. I will have to re rip everyting ( in a different lossless file format). When that happens I will use dBPoweramp or JRiver. AM I still correct on this....or has someone got a program that will take my ExtHDrive and tag everthing? 2. I want to just listen to my music on my original ripping machine, using WMP11, but need to get the artwork and unkown albums put back in order.. How can I do this. Or will someone's third party software do this for me. Right now I am just playing a backup harddrive through my PlayStation3 and VDAC, at leastit displays the albums and song names to play....but no genre, album art etc.

I have just finished ripping cd's..500 gig to a 1Tb USB External Hard Drive. I have been using Windows Media Player 11 ( XP pc), ripping to WAV files, and have hair pulling issues...meta data not recognized. I have fixed all metadata for the external hard drive and the original PC laptop used for ripping. Plays well through a VDAC. I was trying to use a 2nd PC laptop to play the music in my high end system. The album art and track info is all over the place...with most missing or unknown. It has been frustrating not to be able to find out what I am doing wrong scouring, WMP formums etc. I suspect it is a "Sync" issue, but can not figure it out. Is there software like dbpoweramp that would clean this up without RE-Ripping? thanks