Thanks garym for the detailed information.  I tried it with one artist's
folder and dbpoweramp had errors converting 14 album folders from one
artist.  dbpoweramp only was able to convert five folders out of 14 and
out of those five folders, 80 percent of the tracks before coming up
with errors.  Even if I retried converting the errors (repeatedly),
dbpoweramp still had errors and was not able to convert all of the 14
albums completely.

This test hardly gives me any confidence that I can successfully
convert all my 20,000 tracks into flac and consider making the switch
from WAV to FLAC.  Also in the conversion none of my album folder art
was taken.  By mousing over each of the FLAC files that were created, I
see that FLAC adds just a couple more attributes (like all the artists
performing on that track), but for me the album art is more important
to me than other artists that perform on each track.

So unless I am doing something gravely wrong, I think I'll be content
by just copying all of my WAV files in their current artist/album
folder/track structure to my ReadyNAS.  The extra size of WAV files
over FLAC has never been a discriminator for me.  My ReadyNAS and
Transporter are hard wired over Gigabit so I don't have any issues with
network bandwidth.  And storage space isn't an issue either, even with
the current 1.92TB size of all my WAV files, storage is cheap these
days as you might agree--the price for convenience.

Thanks for all your advice though.  I just have too much invested in
WAV files.

Cheers,
Ed


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