this is why I've gone to FLAC ... only have to rip and tag just once. Every other encoder is just a script run away.

Are you using some front-end for FLAC? Whatever extra tagging I have done, I don't lay the blame at the foot of LAME ('course, I couldn't get --id3v2-only switch to work!) or oggenc. They seem to add the tags pretty predictably.

Grip, as a front end, works well, but it doesn't allow me to vary artist or year within a rip of a single CD. This comes in with soundtracks, compilations, and "best of" CDs where I often change one or more of these from CDDB values to either the actual artist (instead of Various Artists) and the actual year of an original recording (instead of the compilation year). This is one place where I like Mp3 Tag Studio for "post-processing".

Maybe there's one, single do-it-all tool out there that I'm overlooking and that would eliminate any fix-up editing. If I were more *patient*, I could process soundtrack/complilation tracks one track at a time in grip, editing each track as I go, and maybe avoid this. Still, I really like having MPTS around for the day that I decide to restore all of those "The"s!