Get a Mac. They won' t give you such a pain. They " rip" straight to AIFF (equivalent to uncompressed WAV files) just by dragging the track off of the CD to the desktop. Then the AIFF can be encoded to MP3 with iTunez. In fact I think iTuNeZ may even be able to encode straight to mp3 from the CD. The only " gotcha" is that no legal copying is allowed. It only performs illegal copying and that' s it.
Try iTunes for Windows and " rip" straight from the CD. Warning: iTunes won' t encode any crappy music, so if you like rap you' ll be out of luck. You may want to try a different encoder if you want to encode crappy music.
< Message edited by Joe Redifer -- 27 Mar 05 2:05:42 >