Audiograbber & Lame have been what I was using. A LONG time back I purchased Audiograbber. I switched to Audiocatalyst when it was released. The Xing encoder really leaves some pretty bad artifacts in the MP3s. Also, the Lame encoder has nearly caught up with Xing speed-wise... without significant artifacts. The Audiocatalyst code development has stopped, so they will never add new features.... so forget about things like ID3v2 tags.

Audiograbber, however, is still being actively worked on. It is a rock solid application that I have used for years. I'd gladly pay much more than $20 (recently lowered from $25) for this app. The CD audio ripping engine has also come a long way since audiocatalyst. I NEVER get any errors ripping around 24x most of the time.

Buy audiograbber & download LAME!

-Jeremy

Mk2/40GB/Blue