She's so small, tiny and crushed up

[venta]

I'm working at home today, and am therefore finally getting round to putting software back on my PC after the Great Evesham Wiping Incident.

So, I want some mp3-ing software. I've always used CDCopy, and that seems to work pretty well. I'm just curious, would anyone recommend anything in particular. Any recommendations should do the following:

• Run on Windows (XP)


• Be free to download ("I'll give you a pirate copy" doesn't count :)


• Be easy to install (I don't really want to faff around looking for codecs, etc)


• Be friendly to use

Thanks for any help.
And kneeshooter, once I've sorted this out I'll chuck that track at you :)

Comments

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

Audiograbber, although you'll need the LAME MP3 codec which is available from that website as well if you want to make decent sounding mp3s.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

I use LAME too, but I haven't tried Blade so that might be better. And the fact that Audiograbber uses freedb rather than CDDB is good both ethically and because it gives more accurate results.

My only real irritation with Audiograbber is that they have slightly funny ideas about how you should enter lots of text into lots of boxes, so in the cases where freedb does screw up and you can't get a good track listing for your CD, you have to pay careful attention to what you're doing when you fill in the track names and artists.

Make sure you explore the options, because it's reasonably configurable as to how it names the files and the directory they go in, and different people have different conventions.