Well, I spoke too soon about T&R unfortunately. It's "OK" but I pre-judged it to be far better than it is. The other applications mentioned in the other threads still hold many features over T&R.

Now, the nasty: It is very easy to move files to unwanted places as well as destroy tag data due to T&R's confusion of paradigms. The author has created a fair list interface but has mixed its use with a file-tree on the left and a static field area at the top. This static field area is useful for batch work on directories without having to see the files, but it is not convenient when being used with the list interface. Emplode is far superior in this respect.

He's using check-boxes as well as highlights for selection. Which one will work with which features? I know which, but this is very confusing. Plus there's no option to add checkmarks in the context menu when you click the file list. Pretty big oversight.

ID3V2 MULTI tagging. This isn't part of a context menu! Ugh. Anyway, popping to the dedicated panel at the top you will notice it says clearly that ONLY selected fields will be modified. Well let me tell you, DO NOT PRESS REMOVE TAGS. This will remove *ALL* tags, not only the selected one (the selected note is only for when adding tags).

It is also a very slow process for me to use this. If I want to browse all my files, each time I launch the program it has to build a database of all 6000 of my tracks. It's not terribly fast, all things considered. The program also doesn't seem to multithread when doing things like clicking the CDDB feature or AllMusic feature (both of which are only useful for full albums). I found the allmusic feature pretty useless for anything less than a full album (plus what's the deal with it showing you ALL your tracks again after you press the get button? - it's not very nice to pop up a list of 6000 files to scroll through.

I'm going to have to use this for very selective and careful editing. And I hope that the glaring problems and bugs (I didn't even begin to mention the bugs I found here ) get addressed soon.

Bruno