flacify is a unix script thats been around for years to parse from text files. that should run under mac, right?
'the godfather' is a great freeware app for cleaning up tags
Do any of these fancy automated ones run on a Mac?
I'll check into that (edit- Godfather appears to be windows only, and flacify is a commandline script. It might work but I prefer a GUI, since i've been using a mac for the past 23 years! If I can't get MAX to work maybe i'll see if flacify would help)
Last night I just discovered MAX 0.8.1 on Apple's website. Have not tried it yet, but I'll check it out soon and report back.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/max.htmlAn application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files.
When extracting audio from compact discs, Max offers the maximum in flexibility to ensure the true sound of your CD is faithfully extracted. For pristine discs, Max offers a high-speed ripper with no error correction. For damaged discs, Max can either use its built-in comparison ripper (for drives that cache audio) or the error-correcting power of cdparanoia.
Once the audio is extracted, Max can generate audio in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats including MP3, Ogg (Vorbis), FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, Monkey’s Audio, WavPack, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE.
Max is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Edit- MAX sucks. Outputs files with generic names, and doesn't seem to be able to tag files except when converting. I'll stick with xACT unless I can figure out how to get flacify to work. That would seem to be what Archive.org uses, right?