As I understand it, AudioGrabber is the same ripper/front-end as AudioCatalyst, the difference is that it doesn't come bundled with the Xing encoder, instead you can use other encoders such as LAME. Perhaps it even comes bundled with the LAME encoder? I'm not sure.

So it sounds like AudioGrabber is your answer.

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