FWIW - I've been using MP3ext for quite some time and love it. I've had issues with the newer versions, so I'm still using one that's pretty old- it doesn't support v2, but seems much more stable to me. Definitely agree that it seems clumsy at first, but it's not hard to get the hang of(although the older versions weren't documented very well, and it took a lot of messing around to figure out how to do certain things).