When I have to grab files off of the player and I'm not sure if their tags are right, here's what I do:

- Make sure the track information in Emplode is correct.

- Grab the files using Jemplode and using a custom file name like this:

{artist} - {source} ({year}) - {pos:2} - {title}{ext}

- Then I use MP3 Tag Studio to perform a filenames-to-tags crunch on the file set based on that pattern of file name (which I create using "advanced" mode in MP3 Tag Studio).

If you are using the latest bleeding-edge preview of MP3 Tag Studio that Magnus made available to us last week, you can even add {genre} to the beginning of that spec.

It has some drawbacks:

- Can't tag non-file-name characters such as ? / : etc.

- Can't have the space-hyphen-space pattern in any field except the song title. This could be worked around by using a more unique delimiter pattern.

Honestly, though, this is still a ton of trouble. What I really want to see is a version of Jemplode that writes V1 and V2 tags directly into each file as it downloads them.