Just a parenthetical: I think that one of the reasons the manfs. tend not to discuss how to rip or convert music is the concern that they could be seen as advocating copyright infringement. Combine that with the fact that the information is readily available in Internet guides and software and otherwise (including the forum here), they just keep mum on the topic.
I use CDex (Internet freeware) to rip my music and it works fine with the Clip. I highly recommend it as a ripper, as it gives you a great deal of control over the quality of the rip; although you have more variables to set inititally and it takes a bit of time to set up as a result (use the Help screens as the manual), after that it’s a piece of cake. As far as I am aware from discussion here, WMP works fine as well. It’s not a question of what tag information is filled in, it’s the format/encoding that is used for the information.
