I use Audio Grabber software to rip my CDs to MP3. It accesses the FreeDB database; you can also download the whole database (VERY large) and store it locally.

I'm in the midst of trying to write a macro module for Excel that will let me read and write the tag info (ID3). (This will NOT be accessing the FreeDB.)

I started doing this when my MP3 player showed me that I had MP3s with five different values for the Artist tag; same group.

BB,

NightWing