You know when mp3 hadn't hit the mainstream yet and those early programs would rip and compress cd's into wav files?
(There were probably better encoders, but the first program I used did this, though it was in 1998 or 1999 and I was 14 or 15 so I probably had the worst encoder that exsisted

Well my first mp3's are long gone (those were some truly bad quality mp3's), but I recently stumbled across a nice celtic album, mp3 encoded @ 192 K, which is unfortunantly put into *.wav files.

I would like to make normal mp3's of those files, complete with ID3v1.1 tags.

My question, how does one go about converting such *.wav mp3's into normal mp3's.

Could I jst rename and put tags, or do I need speciaal software?

(note: I thought this must have been discussed before, but my search came up with one post about headerless mp3's and out of the posts I couldn't deduct if it is appliable to my situation)

Sure, just rename them to .mp3 and add the tag you like. No problem whatsoever.

I might be wrong about this, but won't there still be WAV headers in the mp3 file?

Wavemp3 can add and remove these WAV headers to make proper MP3 files from WAV-MP3s.

You can download it at doom9.org

Thanks for the info.

I "stripped" the files with wavemp3.
Though it gives annoying tags .

Oh well now is the time for me to manually make good tags.

Thanks for the help.

You've solved your problem, so only as additional information:
CDex can do what you want too with the option Convert / Strip the RIFF-WAV headers from MP2 or MP3 files.