Well it sounds like the default audio program has changed. Change it to what program you'd prefer to be default & those icons. See the following but apply it to mp3's instead of video files:
Setting Default video app
Here's some decent tag tools:
http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/ & here's a decent player & ripper:
dBpowerAMP
Personally I use
iTunes which gives me the option of web lookup of song titles & ripping & burning & id3 tagging & it's free. As soon as I put a cd in, it looks up all the details automatically & puts them in instead of me manually typing them in. Quick & easy.