I know it sounds circular, but it's not. I tried to explain all that in the beginning.

If ID3v2 had been around when I mp3ified all my CDs, I'd have used it. But it wasn't so I have thousands of songs without it. I'm not gonna go back now and add 'em since I've already got a consistent way of storing the fields I want as file names.

By no means am I trying to convince anyone to do things the way I do. I think ID3v2 is a better system that what I use (file names), but it just arrived too late for me to use.

I know there's automated tagger to copy data from my file names into v2 fields, but I'm too entrenched in using file names. I've written many scripts to automatically sort my songs, update my checklist and rewrite my playlists for songs that have moved that I'm not interested in changing now... I'll just keep doing my own thing