Please Help, need best program for Tagging my MP3 Library.....

ephpod does not allow you to tag your files. It lets you "tag" the songs on the iPod, but it's not really tagging them--it's just making changes to the ipod's database.

If you don't want to switch to an all-in-one program for uploading and tagging (like MC9, which I recommend), then just get a simple tag editing program like id3-tagit. It's free from www.id3-tagit.de. Click on the british flag for the english version...works great for tagging.

Adam

cool, what about programs that sync the album information from the web into the tags....do you know of any good ones?

Musicmatch comes with your iPod and though everyone here flames it every 2 seconds I think it does the job if your just looking for a tagging utility. It allows mass tagging by hand, or super tagging, which allows tagging from filename, from an online database(which is quite complete) renaming files etc..
I use it to manage my music library, and I use Ephpod to synch, and I amquite happy with it.
Just my 2 eurocents...

Pierugg

MusicMatch is a piece of junk (in my humble opinion). It refuses to function with my new 15 Gb iPod, even though I had no problems at all using it for my old 10 Gb iPod, I still hated the interface as it seemed clumsy and cumbersome. I have tried several methods to get MMJB 7.5 to function with my new iPod, but all in vein. As a subquence, I feel that the sooner Apple get the rumored iTunes for Windows out, the better.

I've been usin Ephpod 2.60f to update my iPod and it's been remarkably efficient. I've been using a version of Ephpod for a year now and it's perfection for updating the iPod with music, news and weather reports, but it really isn't a tagger and that's where i discovered eMusic Tag Editor to be a bonus.

As for ripping CD's, there's nothing better, in my opinion than Easy CD-CA Extractor, which uses LAME and is highly configurable for personal preferences and it's fast.

For managing contacts and appointments from Outlook, there's not much around easier than iAppoint, which is free. It's a little weird at first to get it working right, but once you work it out (help is minimal) it performs perfectly and only uses a single file for all your appointments and does away with single vCard entries for each contact or appointment. If you don't have Outlook, then Ephpod will do the same job quite nicely, but uses a separate entry for each contact or calendar appointment.

We could go on for weeks about the pros and cons of iPod third party software, but what it all boils down to is individual preference. Whatever works for YOU - is best.

Do your filenames have the artist and song title in them? Many tag editors can grab the tag information from the filename. I use ID3Tagit, and it definitely will do this, so you may not have to re-rip after all, provided your filenames have enough info in them.

try downloading tag&rename
http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
i used it for a while now, and im really happy with it. Makes tagging very easy.