By far the best ripper/encoder is CDex and it's free, it also comes with the most current version of LAME!

It takes a little bit of time to setup (how you want the Filename/ID tags to look etc…, but it's sweet otherwise)

Highly recommend:
http://www.cdex.n3.net/
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