Dr.Tag in its current version doesn't have FreeDB nor AllMusic ripping (this isn't exactly legal BTW). I don't realy care about that funcitonality because I found it didn't work well at all in Tag and Rename. It's useful if you have an entire album, but when I have an entire album I already also have all the correct tag info. I pull it with my ripping program from FreeDB before encoding.

So I need something that can manipulate any number of files, from 1 to dozens or hundreds. I need to be able to sort the files in a visual list by different criteria - be it filename or a specific tag, regardless of what folder the actual file is located in (this I could not do with MP3 Tag Studio and it was a right pain in the ass).

When tagging multiple files I like to see tag fields marked to show they have content that differsm versus no content (ie. colour coding the text field). I also like a program to put in actual text for fields that do match between files (Tag and Rename didn't do this). I found that T&R was just getting little bits added to it to patch missing funcitonality, but what itreally needed was a complete re-design.

So I'm looking for something that does what Dr.Tag does, but might do it even better. Its multi-tagging is what I was asking for a couple of years ago when I first saw the simple aproach taken by Apple with iTunes (again, colour coded fields). Another important criteria is that the program receive a good amount of updating and bug fixeing as needed. I used ID3TagIt for a while but it hasn't been updated in ages and it's starting to show. I like programs that do a decent job f following established and intuitive conventions. So far Dr.Tag is the most intuitive one I've tried. It's just based on elements you'd already be familiar with from using Explorer and knowing something about Tags.

Bruno