Tony, thank you for that link to the article on Medialoper. It provided a useful overview of this painful process, which I will soon be forced by family members to suffer through. It was also nice to see that one of the comments had helpful information on how to use the service via Firefox. There seems to be no talking them out of using this service, but maybe if I made them read this article I'd have more luck.

As for me, I think I'll be ripping CDs for a long time to come. I guess after learning a bit about rippers and encoders a few years ago, I've become rather picky about how the job is done and prefer to do it myself.