Windows has Free Media player you can rip and play.
And for me for the past nearly 3 years, very well, thank you very much !!
Also WAV. for me only, as A/B`ing identical music tracks with FLAC on a Flash drive plugged into my OPPO UDP-203, or my Integra DHC 40.2 pre amp/processor, and my music dedicated Rack Gateway lap top, sounded different, where as not bad sounding, but different sounding, and that bothers me as FLAC is "supposed to be bit perfect".
I used the top tier($$) latest Media Monkey program for the rip WAV./FLAC on a Flash drive to compare the 2 types
So I`ll just buy and use bigger SSD/Flash drives, if and when needed(no more spindle based HD drives for me!) to store and run my digital music, as I have been doing for 2 &1/2 years.
And as to Meta tagging, about 98% CD rips were automatically done, after playing the CD`s first track, instead of setting it up on auto rip, as I ignorantly did at first..
All easy peasy, whether Win. 7/8.1/10`s included Media player program..
Go with what works for you.
This works perfectly for me with all day high quality sound, albeit 44.1 red book resolution, results.
Enjoy your music in anyway that best suits you.
Kind regards, Billy Ferris