[Flac-users] CD archival best practices?

[Dax Kelson]

Goals:

1. Store meta data
2. Be able to recreate and burn bit-for-bit accurate audio CDs from
archive.
3. Be able to "generate" lossy format files (OggVorbis,MP3,etc) with
meta info intact when needed.
4. One file per song.
5. Files playable in XMMS and WinAMP3.

Questions:
Q1. OGG vs FLAC container?
Q2. Meta data format?
Q3. In detail, how does one do goal 2?
Q4. What ripping/encoding software?

Regarding goal 3, above, I wrote flac2mp3.pl available at:

http://www.gurulabs.com/files/flac2mp3.pl

Ideas on a clean way to safely handle malicious meta data warmly
welcomed.

Dax Kelson