You are not fully misunderstanding.

Your method is not without merit but the fact is I know what I am doing in VB but have no idea with Linux and don't want to change the content of the player without knowing it is going to work perfectly. My main goal is to put all the files back on the PC with the correct filenames and tags from the versions I have edited in emplode. This way if the worst happens, I can send it all back to a new empeg without doing the 6+ hours of tag maniplation again.

I have around 250 CDs which were ripped with audiograbber/lame. not all of the CDDB info is the way I want it in the discs.txt file so I have done some tag editing on the PC before sending to the empeg. I have then done some more to iron out inconsitencies on the empeg with emplode. I want the whole lot back on my PC again.

Thanks for your idea anyway.