Back to the original question - when I initially made the jump from CDs to digital music (yes, I know CDs are digital, but they're digital on a specific physical object, so you pedants can go bother someone else), I just had them ripping in the background as I worked on something else. It took a while, but it wasn't difficult to do. There are also services that will rip your CDs for you, but of course that costs money.
I've done it a few times... make sure to setup the computer to record to the specs you want/need in the format you want and set it to auto pull in the CD data, auto record when you toss a CD in and to auto eject the CD when done... takes a while but it does it all in the background while you are playing...
What's the best program for doing this? Don't care if it costs money.
This is something I've been wanting to do for a long time but haven't gotten around to it.
I used to use dbpoweramp but don't know if they're still around.
CDex. It's free.
And while you're ripping them, don't delete the .wav's. Buy you a 2 or 3 TB USB drive at wally world or wherever for a bill and copy all the ripped wav's over to that, and the .mp3's for that matter. That 3TB drive will store about 5-6000 CD's in raw wav format. That way, if you ever want to re-encode them in the next greatest whatever, you don't have to do all the ripping again.
I like dr Hess' idea on ripping. For high end audio the highest quality went away with digital recording. There's a few specialty recording companies doing some classical stuff using vintage mixing consoles and equipment. Analog can spec out significantly better than industry standard digital, but it turns out people don't care that much. I used to work for a console manufacturer that made some high end stuff for studios. Now I listen to pandora.
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