First of all, hey there Britonwhite
Use EAC. Here it a tutorial on how to rip mp3s, it's quite easy, and there isn't a hassle at all
Taken from another site and not by me
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1. Go to
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ and download the newest beta of Exact Audio Copy. This is THE best ripping program available.
2. Go to
http://mitiok.cjb.net/ and download the lastest stable build of LAME MP3 Encoder. This is arguably the best encoder out there for MP3. It's the one I like the best.
3. Install Exact Audio Copy, make note of the directory that it installs the files to, you'll have to go there in the next step.
4. Unzip the LAME file that you downloaded. Pluck out the lame_enc.dll and move it to the directory where Exact Audio Copy installed to.
5. Launch EAC. Go through the little wizard it presents about your CD-ROM drive. Do NOT setup LAME as an external decoder.
6. Go to EAC in the toolbar, then Compression Options, and under the Waveform tab select Wave format as LAME MPEG Layer-3 Encoder v3.93 DLL v1.32
7. Choose the Sample format that you want. *I* use Minimum 192kBit/s VBR, 44,100Hz, Stereo. The files are a little bigger than usual, but it makes up in sound quality. For playing back on your home stereo or good speaker system on your computer, I'd highly recommend this format. For portable players, you might want to choose 128kBit/s or even lower. Drive space is cheap these days
8. Check the box "Add ID3 tag" and "Do not write WAV header to file" and in the
"File extension for headerless files" type .mp3 Nick: This is important, if you miss this, the file will be a WAV.
9. Under the ID3 Tag tab, change the "Construction of filenames from ID3 tags" to whatever you want. Just follow the instructions.
10. Pop in a CD, click the CD button right above where the tracknames would be and that will go to the internet and get all the tracknames and stuff.
11. Click the MP3 to your left and go get a drink.
12. Enjoy!