I saw this on Reddit earlier, but I still refuse to read it.
It's about UIs and there's only two pictures!
They mention these 10 Apps but don't link to a single one of them. ::)

And then they get your hopes up, "302-page Application Design Annual report, with 206 screenshots, is available for download..." if you want to pay $98 for a PDF.   :o

Meh, I say! 

Just to address some of kartal's dislikes.

It does not have dual panes,

-kartal (April 08, 2008, 11:03 PM)

It's a heated topic of discussion on the XYplorer forums.  Recently, Don has stated he'd give it a bit more consideration if the users could come up with a solid proposal, which the DP lovers are attempting ( http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?t=2293 ).

It does not have a ftp client,

-kartal (April 08, 2008, 11:03 PM)

Correct, Don feels that his time is better spent working on the file manager side of things then adding an FTP implementation, especially since there are an abundance of clients already available.

It does not support mouse forward backward buttons, at least mine did not work

-kartal (April 08, 2008, 11:03 PM)

This works for me, but if you were to bring this up in the forums a fix might be found.  Don's pretty good at trying to fix mouse event bugs.

You can not change the placement of panes (for example I would like viewer on the left or right side)
You can not seperate bottom pane. For example I would like to put find files at top, properties at the bottom
Limited layout selection

-kartal (April 08, 2008, 11:03 PM)

I agree it would be nice if the panes could be separated, moved, and docked independently.

You can not get rid of tree view (at least I could not)

-kartal (April 08, 2008, 11:03 PM)

Window -> Show Navigation Panel.  Unless you mean show the Catalog but not the tree, then unfortunately it's not currently possible.

In full row select mode you cannot drag selection rectangle

-kartal (April 08, 2008, 11:03 PM)

Tis true, I'm going to post a suggestion in the forums on a fix for this.

EDIT: Actually it is possible to use the selection rectangle with full row select mode, but you have to click in "Line Numbers"/# column to start it.

TheQwerty: I keep my "archives" in .wav format (planned to go .flac all the time, just didn't get to it yet - more focused on getting my CDs ripped, as I can always batch compress later). As I've mentioned before, each CD I rip gets a single .wav file and a .cue sheet with all the necessary meta information.

My use for MP3s, and one-file-per-track, is specifically for my new MP3 player (did you read the first post in this thread? :P), which obviously doesn't support flac or cue sheets. Thanks for the Titleformat_Introduction link - it had a link at the bottom that has the really useful information.

-f0dder (January 31, 2008, 04:29 AM)

Of course I read it, and after re-reading it, it doesn't change what I said.  (But it does make me wonder if you read my post.  :P )

Now that you have set up and (presumably) used Foobar2000 to create the MP3 files for your DAP, it is relatively easy to go back into Foobar2000 and do the WAV to FLAC conversion for storage.