* Some nice audio players that can read lossless audio files like flac and ape:
http://www.foobar2000.org Foobar2000 on Windows
http://coppertino.com Vox on Mac
http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net DeaDBeeF on Linux
And http://www.videolan.org VLC cross-platforms
* Some great programs to create a perfect back-up copy of your musical CDs:
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en ExactAudioCopy on Windows (useful guides: http://blowfish.be/eac)
http://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html X Lossless Decoder on Mac
http://thomas.apestaart.org/morituri/trac Morituri and http://www.xiph.org/paranoia CdParanoia on Linux