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Try ID3-TagIt: http://www.id3-tagit.de/english/index.htm. It's freeware, it's small, it's efficient, and it has many more features than I want: Tag from filename, tag TO filename and batch retag are basically satisfactory for me.

I agree, but hopefully the cream (of the crop) rises. Apps like http://www.id3-tagit.de/ are good ones to consider. The main thing is just figuring out what your requirements are. There are dozens that typically fit the bill once you figure out what you need done.

After surveying many MP3 tag programs ID3-TagIt was the one for me too. Once I straightened everything out, I imported everything into iTunes. iTunes works well once you have the major things sorted out. Just make sure that you have the directory laid out correctly and most of the mass tagging complete. Here is the link: http://www.id3-tagit.de/

Not true.

I'm converted by philosophy, but not in practice.

I have this year installed a number of Linux distros (Red Hat, Gentoo, Mepis, Debian, Mandrake) and am yet to find one that recognises all of my hardware (my RME-DigiPST sound card proving impossible to get working) or fulfils all of my software requirements (a contact manager that can sync with both an Ericsson and Motorola phone for example).

I am still finding that each time I look at Linux that I lack things... be it something that replaces ID3-TagIt, or rips and encodes similar to EAC and LAME.

I've knocked together this Wiki page for the forum I run as several of us want to migrate. As you can see... it's not been updated in a while and the few unanswered questions are still unanswered.

Now, the point of this post is this... each time I have looked at Linux to date I find it is not quite ready, but that it is closer to being ready. Each time I find it easier to jump into, and easier to get started on and with fewer outstanding questions.

However... each time it has still failed to do everything I do with my computer. So I stay on Windows and think "maybe tomorrow"... and then get lazy.

When I'm lazy I stick to Windows, because it does work.

Then I read articles like this, which are preaching to the philosophically converted. Articles such as this remind me that I've yet to switch, remind me that I'm being lazy... they remind me that I had some unanaswered questions and that I should ask them again.

I personally think there is a lot of value in this. It's already put it back on my desk as a fun thing to do this afternoon (give Gentoo another try!).

Yeah try, ID3-TagIt!, it is zi best!

Its not quite CDDB, but a windows app that edits id3 tag from file names & vice-versa

http://www.id3-tagit.de

Download

Its not quite CDDB, but a windows app that edits id3 tag from file names & vice-versa

http://www.id3-tagit.de

Download

My current favorite is ID3-TagIT. It lets you go back and forth from filenames to tags in both directions, supports batch tagging and batch renaming, upper/lower case correction, id3v1<->id3v2, automatic sorting into folders, etc. It's very comprehensive and easy to use.