> I've written a little utility for id3 tagging, which allows you you set all
> the properties of a group of files at once...(windows only for now)

Don't worry about us *ix users. I do it with:
$ for i in *.mp3;do mp3id3 --artist "$artist" --album "$album" -g $genre -s "$title" -y "$year" $i;done

In fact, I completely seperate the processes of ripping, querying CDDB, adding
the ID3 tags, transferring to the Empeg and creating the playlists.

Paul