Finally finished with this (yup, it's taken a while), so now I'm refining the porduct of my monster effort .
Got some pointers from here, and now would like to know which tagger you expert guys consider the best as far as the APEv2 format is concerned.

A quick forums search seems to be suggesting one of the following:
foobar2000 Masstagger
http://www.foobar2000.org/components.html#foo_masstag
The GodFather (the one I'm currently using )
http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
Mp3tag
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Your take and suggestions?

Thanks.

foobar2000

I think they are all flawless. If you like GTF most why not use it? I'd prefer foobar or mp3tag though - I'm using a combination of both...

Thanks to both for your replies, what I'd really like is your opinions plus the app's features it's based on, thanks.

MP3Tag

I like foobar2000 for tagging, because of the "everything at your fingertips" feeling; you play your files, you notice a wrong tag? no problem masstagger pops up, done...

mp3tag is easier to use for some operations, but overall very similar.

I assume that you use foobar already.

If so, I would ask the question: why install a secondary piece of software when foobar's Masstagger can be used to tag and rename files, and does a superb job of it?

My vote for Masstagger I guess.

That said, if you want something a little more GUI, from what I understand MP3Tag uses foobar-style variables and functions in scripts - so it could be an easier transition.

Both look like nice apps. We are lucky to be spoilt for choice with free software.

I have looked at MP3Tag before. I have it and Abander Tag Control installed (Abander was there before I started using foobar). However, I always just use Masstagger.

Edit: Woah, when I started typing there were no responses! I'm getting slow in my old age.



Same here. foobar performs all of my audio file admin needs now. I also like the small size/fast loading of foobar, and the flexibility provided by TAGZ.

I love how easy The Godfather is to use once you're familiar with its structure.

For my purposes, here's how things go:

1. Rip with EAC (single FLAC/.cue), but double-check the freedb info against allmusic.com.
2. Fire up TGF and use the allmusic.com script to grab the album info from the page and tag the FLAC file with it.
3. Save info TGF downloaded to a .html file.

Here's the cool part; It populates all the fields without me typing anything. Comments are filled with the review, album name, artist, genre, year, moods, styles, producer, etc... are all put in their correct tag. Since I'm doing the single FLAC/.cue thing, I'll strip out the track number and track name as that'll get pulled from the .cue when loaded into Foobar. So, when I do that process, I'm left with a single image and cue that is tagged correctly, can be split, converted, used to make an exact copy with Burrrn and it's very clean.

Thanks a lot to everybody for your feedback, appreciated.

@Synthetic Soul: I'm still talking about the SFF PC used as media center which belongs to my gf (more details here) but is installed at my flat therefore, as an almost permanent guest, she has to share it , so no foobar on it, just Winamp and WinDVD, as far as media players go.

Since I'm sticking to the agreed (with her) policy of one app per task I'll go with TGF.

EDIT: Grammar... as usual...