I've sorted through many issues in an attempt to reconcile my music library (ripped to WAV by EAC) with both Slimserver and iTunes. In an ideal world I would be able convert my current WAV files to Apple Lossless and recover the tags somehow. Can anyone suggest a program?

Gerry
Ps the Godfather has been suggested but the best I can do with it is WAV to FLAC.

dBpowerAMP with Apple Lossless encoder (beta version)

Have a look at this link

Did you create cue files with the rips? In that case, you could mount the cue+wav files using Daemon Tools. To iTunes, they would appear like a mounted audio-CD, so it would do the conversion for you and get the tag info. Ofcourse this virtual ripping is much faster than a real rip.

There is a command line interface for ALAC (itunesencode i believe). You can use it with virtually any program (foobar, dbpoweramp, etc).

Then you use use a freedb lookup to tag the files.

If you have access to a Mac then you can use Max to take virtual any format and convert it to any format supported by Quicktime plus FLAC and Ogg preserving tags.

Now your original WAV files won't be tagged. I don't know of any programs which will tag files based on the contents of an external database as they are converted.

If I was you I wouldn't start with WAV files I'd rip everything to an open tagged lossless format to start off with such as FLAC then convert from there. Max will convert FLAC to ALAC and FLAC to WAV happily. However then you have the reverse problem of populating an external database as you'll have lost the tags converting to WAV.

Why do you need WAV anyway? Do you have a device you are serving to from Simserver that can't deal with anything else?

I want the best quality audio for a very high end sound system hence I prefer to use EAC for ripping which only supports WAV directly.
Gerry

Um I have 100 GB of FLAC compressed audio here ripped and tagged using EAC. EAC can drive pretty much any commandline encoder, it rips to a temporary WAV file then compresses and tags the files. It even has support for running multiple compression jobs at once to make use of multiprocessor/multicore PCs.