Quote Originally Posted by acidsaturation
No. Windows media only rips to WMA - it also puts some form of SCMS on it - I spent ages trying to work out why stuff that media player had ripped would play on my PC but not my girlfriends MP3 player when we copied them from the PC.

I just use soundforge.
Not true. In Media Player 10, if you go to the "ripping" menu, you can choose what format you want to rip to.

Alternatively, download CDex - powerful, yet easy to use, and above all free.