Convert Flac to Wav - how to & HD space need?



Hi

Have all my CDs ripped to FLAC, and want to convert them to uncompressed WAV files.

I currently have 1100 CDs, using up 308 GBs(In FLAC).

Which software do you recommend to convert to WAV?
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How much more space will I need on my HD?

Thanks
128x128saffy
Media Monkey will convert it and still allow tagging.
I think the compression ratio is about 40% for FLAC. So 600-700 gig. Remember a 750gig drive formats out to way less.

Curious why you want to switch to WAV?

06-05-07: Cytocycle
Curious why you want to switch to WAV?

To answer your question:

Want to create CDRs(superior to original CDs) and are best done with WAV. Reff:
http://www.genesisloudspeakers.com/whitepaper/Black_CDsII.pdf

Also

The digital guro Steve Nugent claims WAV (or uncompressed) is superior to FLAC for "higher end"computor playback.
Something on Nugent:

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue14/spdif.htm
Cytocycle - Know of a program that will convert Apple lossless files to WAV? My friend is convinced that WAV sounds better than APLL. I go back and forth. If HD space isn't the limiting factor, I'm guessing WAV would be the way to go. Yes? No?

I've got 170 gigs of APLL files on my 500gig HD. I'd like to be able to batch convert them rather than one-at-a time.

Thanks.
I use a program called Max on an iMac to do the convertion. Max can convert between 30 some different audio formats. It works really well especially for its price - free.

WAV file generally requires about 2.5 times as much space as FLAC.