The best ripping software around is Exact Audio Copy (EAC for short) by miles... I mean miles. You can make out the difference between WAV files ripped by EAC and other cd rippers easily if you have the right equipment. For compressing, just download the latest build of lame. All other commercial progs use it anyway .
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