I did find a perl module to do the tagging so I will write the script to tag this weekend.

I do have vmware and samba mounts to my repository of files (on a linux server).

I downloaded the MP3TagStudio and gave it a try. The Interface was pretty slick and it apeared to be able to do what I needed, without needing to write any scripts at all. However when I tried it simply didnt work. It reported success in tagging the files but it did not tag them. My file structure is like this

/mp3/d/Depeche Mode/Ultra/Depeche Mode - 01 - Barrel Of A Gun.mp3

The tag studio seemed to follow the path just fine with its format specifier, but alas, no tag was written to the file.

Second problem is (and a minor one at that), is that about 50 of my files have a question mark in them, which is not allowed in the Windows filesystems, or over a samba mount so these files get badly mangled names. Like the Jill Scott CD for example,.. the Title of her CD is "Who Is Jill Scott?", so every one of those tracks get mangled.

As far a Jemplode,.. I actually saw that BEFORE I bought my empeg but after I finally got my empeg (Rio actually), I could not find a version of jemplode that was being actively maintained and the version I did find was buggy and crashed alot.

--Aaron

[stop the technology madness]