Using non AAC Formats for 'Futureproof' music archive

My music collection is currently in lossy AAC format on my Imac with 80Gb hard drive. I would like to re-rip my c.d.s to a loseless format for future proofing and store on a new hard drive with such low price / gig. The idea would be to run a script converting them to AAC for current Imac / Ipod combo, but in future may script convert to Flac and or OGG or even WMA if I ever (doubtfully) leave the Apple fold.
Has anybody done similar here? Any advice? Flac or WAV, can I store all the useful metadata against WAV files or is this held in iTunes database files? Does anybody know of such scripts of batch conversions?

I can't tell you what to do, but I can tell you my experiences.
My library still had some albums ripped with iTunes 1.0, at 128 kbps MP3.
Then there were several CDs, ripped at 192 kbps MP3 and 128 kbps AAC.
I recently replaced the HD of my Mac for a larger and faster one, so plenty of room and time to standardize my collection.
I re-ripped my entire CD collection (modest, I think, about 60 discs) in Apple Lossless, stored it for archival purposes on an external HD and converted the whole lot to AAC 320 kbps.
At re-ripping, iTunes will ask if it's OK to replace the existing files. There the first problem arose. It will only do so if the names it gets from Gracenote on inserting the CD, exactly matches those of the library.
Looking on Doug's site, I found Copy Track Info to CD Tracks.
Perfect. All artwork and lyrics eventually were automatically copied to the re-ripped tracks. Also the Date Added, Ratings and Play Counts were preserved.
Cool!
After archiving all lossless files to an external HD, I converted them to AAC and deleted the Lossless files from my internal drive.
As for FLAC. iTunes doesn't support that format and I can't tell you if and how the metadata is stored (just don't know). The same applies to OGG.
WAV doesn't support tagging and you can't add artwork or lyrics to it (options are greyed out)
AIFF (also uncompressed like WAV) officially doesn't support tagging either, but iTunes attaches artwork to the file (as can seen by the increasing file size).
Hope this helps.
M
17' iMac fp 800 MHz 768 MB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.7) Several ext. HD (backup and data)

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