My suggestion is to rip and tag at the same time using something like Audiograbber or EAC

Oh, absolutely. I was just trying to make the point that the ripping and encoding is the quickest and easiest part of the process -- setting up the tagging for each CD is what takes the time, particularly if you are anal enough about it (as I am) to be certain that there are no typos, that you have researched (using Google where necessary) to get the proper information, etc.

How many people (besides myself) have gone through and re-done their entire collection just to get the tags right?

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