I entered about 130 CD's info manually because the only windows machine I had at the time was not going to be connected to the 'net.

It isn't that much of an issue, and it means the tags are always right, unlike CDDB or FreeDB.

I'm with Andy on this - I don't want applications to have to connect out. It implies bad design if there isn't a standalone version - why should I need connectivity to run a consumer gadget. Is nonsense!

(can you tell I have not yet seen an ipod variant I like and am not going to get one until it can actually do the things I want it to....?)