Originally Posted by
garym
You are correct in terms of what dbpa and other rippers do when RIPPING from a CD. They go out to the internet to various sources and use that info to complete the metadata tags for the ripped files (flacs, mp3, etc.). However, dbpa is not able to access this metadata from the internet when CONVERTING from one file to another (e.g., WAV to FLAC). I'm not sure there are any converters that can do this.
One thing that might work for you if you named your files well and they are organized well by subdirectory, is to use mp3tag to load up files and automatically use info from subdirectory names (such as artist name and album name) and file names (e.g., track number and song title) and automatically create the tag metadata. Let us know how your files are organized by directory and subdirectory and file names (give us a couple of examples) and if the above is true, I can assist you in creating metadata from your file/directory names.