Which CD ripper s/w can you recommend? Looking to rip some music cd's down to MP3. Thanks.

Which CD ripper s/w can you recommend? Looking to rip some music cd's down to MP3. Thanks.

iTunes. It's free and full-featured. Download it, then go to Preferences->Advanced->Importing and set the format to MP3 / high quality.

I think itunes rips AAC per default - AAC is better than MP3 at the same bitrate, however not nearly as wide-spread so MP3 is the better option.

iTunes. It's free and full-featured. Download it, then go to Preferences->Advanced->Importing and set the format to MP3 / high quality.

I think itunes rips AAC per default - AAC is better than MP3 at the same bitrate, however not nearly as wide-spread so MP3 is the better option.

Like Nikster, I like iTunes too and use it daily. However, iTunes is a huge application. iTunes may well be "overkill" if all the OP wants to do is rip CDs.

For ripping CDs I must recommend FreeRip. You can save CD audio tracks to CD-quality WAV files or encode them to OGG Vorbis, Wma, MP3 or Flac compressed audio formats. It can also convert audio files from/to WMA, Wav, MP3, Vorbis and Flac. FreeRip supports ID3v1/v2 tagging and CD-Text.

Note: During installation, the application gives an option to install a tool bar. (I forget what the name of the tool bar is.) Just opt NOT to install it. The tool bar is not required and probably something you don't want OR need.