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[gavinsca]

I would like to know where to download a free, easy-to-use ripper to take MY music from CDs that I own and save them as MP3 files of good quality.

(I'm not offering them anywhere but my family's iPods - I just loathe the proprietariness of iTunes and others).

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[etcet]

honestly? i just use windows media player at one of the high-quality settings (you don't need to go all the way to "lossless" unless you're nuts).

does what i need, and organizes the rips by artist and album and retrieves track info for anything store-bought.

[eleccham]

I use Exact Audio Copy.

It's not the easiest to set up, but it's a golden dream once it is. It'll encode to anything you have the codec for - I generally use LAME. If you're interested I'll send my settings along to you.

[devowasright]

itunes is only proprietary with songs you buy online from iTunes. if you are ripping cds, there are no restraints on copying, burning, moving to other machines, iPods, etc... its cross platform compatible, and easy to use. plus it has a snazzy jukebox like display of album covers. :)