Wow, this turned down a path I hadn't put much though into, thought that's a good reflection on the community that it did.

The reason why I was asking is due to the issues with FreeDB that Matt & Eric listed. So I've been looking for a way of having my cake and eating it too - to get the secure ripping of EAC and the accuracy of CDDB, the only thing I've found are the many front ends to Cdparanoia.

This of course opens up a whole other can of worms, me and linux, but I'll go play with some stuff first.