Need to rip CD and create mp3s, but Winlame don't work.

Factual Questions
1

I’m about to put up my music website, (after all these years), and I needed to rip some of my music off a CD. Well I download Winlame (this is a new computer) and nothing! I go to load “all supported files” and it reads my cd drive as blank. I’m using XP so I don’t know if there’s some protection scheme or something I’m not aware of?

I simply need to convert some of my music to mp3. I looked for other rippers but they are all shady looking, have some stupid time trial, or are crippled in some fashion.

Help me find a free encoder that ain’t Winlame.

I tried to search but it won’t let me use CD or Mp3 (less then 4 characters)

As always thanks in advance.

2

CDex
is pretty good.

3

It’s been awhile since I’ve used WinLame but, IIRC, it’s merely an encoder not a ripper. To rip a CD directly to MP3 try:

CDex
or
Exact Audio Copy

both are powerful, reputable and free.

4

Thanks guys, I’ll check it out in the morning.

Sleepytime.

5

www.dbpoweramp.com

Totally free, easy to use, uses the best codecs. Not only CD ripping, but you can convert files by simply right-clicking in windows explorer.