>> Are the programs self explanatory or something best left to someone with more
>> knowledge?
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Bobby,
I find Tagscanner less than intuitive in a couple of small areas, but it powerful, has comprehensive documentation and is fine when understood.
MP3Tag might be easier to understand, but I haven't used it.
What you need to do is conceptually simple, and should be easily achieved in either product. Tagscanner allows editing of multiple files (tracks) at once, as long as the edit for each is the same. Therefore, one edit per album is enough to add (the same) album art to all the tracks therein. You just need to locate the appropriate picture (say 300x300) and drag and drop or copy within Tagscanner (whilst the interface will be different, AFAIK the process is very similar in MP3Tag).
I won't enable Windows Media Player on my machines* but I'm not sure you can't even do it in there. It is implied that, if you access via "Library", drill down to the desired album then track(s), select one (or a few) and right click, the "Advanced Tag Editor" option or equivalent will allow you to drag and drop an artwork file onto the selection. Can't vouch for that, though.
*Windows Media Player, once it's got your files, continues to play with them in the library in background - it can make entirely arbitrary decisions about changing things such as metadata and how it is stored, and I prefer to be in control of the process myself. I would personally use a 3rd party ripper.
For my own reasons I use Exact Audio Copy (which I use to rip to lossless FLAC). That is a once and only once rip: the CDs are then boxed and stored, the FLAC becomes the "master" copy. Then I convert the FLAC files (Indistinguishable from CD quality) to any other desired format using Foobar2000, which will, if I want, convert the whole library of FLAC to a desired MP3 bitrate in a single, batched run (takes a bit of time, but there is no loading of CDs ever again). It works for me as I need both FLAC and MP3 copies, and if necessary I can change the whole MP3 library's bitrate fairly easily, to save space.
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