By the way, ripping and encoding together is a lot more work, not less. If you do ripping wihout encoding, you can get through a lot more music. Or the same amount of music in much less time. Then just wait for when you have a large amount of data to be encoded and drag and drop the WAV files onto AG while you won't be using your computer (or while you're using it, if you don't mind the slowdown). I normally queue up about 30GB of WAV files and then do a batch encode when I leave for work in the morning. This is the "power user" way to use AG. I'm sure someone on the AG forum has made a FAQ on setup/usage.

Bruno