Hi All! I in the process of ripping all of my albums, but the tool I have has two major flaws. First, it's Windows. Second, it only store ID3v1 tags. The nice thing is that it has a very, very confortable GUI. I press "record" and it records the album. Then I click on the pauses between songs and it splits the album into the appropriate tracks. There is an "auto clean" mode which takes out all of the hissing and clicking automatically, which works wonders with my old albums. I then have to input the artist and track title by hand, but cut-n-paste from freedb.org makes it really easy. Then I covert the wav files to mp3 and I am done! Again, only with the ID3v1 tags. So, the first question is whether there is a comfortable GUI to do the same thing in Linux. The tools I have found so far have all been command line and take about as long to process the album as it does to rip it. The second question is if there is a command line tool to conver ID3V1 tags to ID3V2 tags. I found one that claims to do it (simply called id3v2). However, it's source only and none of the versions I have downloaded contain the configure script that it says to execute first. Arrgh! Any help would be greatly appreaciated. Regards, jimmo -- --------------------------------------- "Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -- John Wooden --------------------------------------- The Linux Tutorial needs your help! Visit us at http://www.linux-tutorial.info