Clip ZIp ID3 Tags?

I can’t answer your first question, but I can recommend the utility MP3tag for editing the tags.  It does bulk operations so you shouldn’t have to do your songs one at a time.  And with the utility you may be able to figure out the answer to your first question by looking at the tags values displayed in MP3tag (find a song that says “unknown” on the Clip Zip, look at its tags in MP3tag, find the pattern, etc.).