I will stick my neck out and say that music match is not too bad i does for me If you want a better quality one you can play with different ones later Music match is quite fast and does most things for you.

Set it up properly first

I have it one 160Kbps and i have the way it set up to record tracks with track number and track name ticked in the tracks directory panal in the recorder options.

One tip that isn't well advertised is you can drag and drop entire directorys into emplode.

Essential addtional software is Tonys logo editor if only for it's kernal upload facility, Hijack for it,s wonderful little features and display server 1.1 once you feel a bit braver

One more thing it takes a minnum of a month before you realise most of the features of the empeg.