I use Exact Audio Copy along with the freeware BladeEnc encoder to make my mp3s straight from CDs. While I don't do the step of going from .wav to .mp3 myself, I'm sure there are plenty of frontends ...

Building a digital music library used to be a simple matter of inserting a CD into your computer and encoding the songs as MP3 files. Today the process is a little more complicated. iTunes 4.5 and ...