Jason: You have a lot of very nice scans, so that will probably be appreciated. Can you share your workflow to get them this nice?
Gerard: I can see the different needs for having or not having metadata, but getting the metadata fixed is no big issue.
I rip my CD's in Exact Audio Copy,
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de which has support for FreeDB to get and embed album, artist, titles etc. Then I grab the album art from Albumartexchange and embed it using MP3Tag, so it's actually not much harder than what you are doing, and then I am set with any mediaplayer.
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