Audiograbber - (Free)
Audiograbber makes copies of audio CD tracks without going through the sound card.
Audiograbber is a software utility that allows to copy an audio CD tracks digitally, the result being a perfect copy of the original. The software copies audio tracks contained in an audio CD for transfer to a sound file without going through the sound card. By default, the extraction format is WAV but the software can use encoders for file types MP3, OGG or WMA During the extraction of a track, the volume can be balanced.
During extraction, it is possible to make some adjustments to the tracks to copy. Include balancing volume, silence suppression at the beginning and end of each track, etc.
AudioGrabber automatically search for information about the extracted files and downloads from Free dB such as songs, artists, etc.
To obtain better compression quality, user can download an external encoder, such as Blade.