Nila,
Not entirely sure I follow your mechanics... assume I'm 6 years old
GIve them the same naming format - Not clear about what you mean...
Here's what I did with the orig. CD's. Popped them in, did lookup. If found ripped, however after ripping I often went in and modified things like: Year, Genre, and with "mix" CD's I modified the Song Name so that it would sort correctly after downloading to my NOmad Jukebox.
If DB didn't find CD, I'd manually update the entire set of Tags prior to ripping... Actually on a few ocassions I did the tag updates AFTER ripping.
You suggest taking the new MP3's and "throwing" them in the old directory writing over top of the existing files and then running MJ to update tags. This suggests that I NOT use MJ (which I am currently) to do the MP3 ripping.
OK, so let's say I rip the CD's with another LAME encoder and direct the MP3 output to the current directory for that CD. Since Windows see's these MP3's as files, wouldn't my file names have to match? And in the case of CD's that aren't in the Database, doesn't this put me back to having to manually build the ID tags?
Thanks for your help!
bradesp