I use Exact Audio Copy along with the freeware BladeEnc encoder to make my mp3s straight from CDs. While I don't do the step of going from .wav to .mp3 myself, I'm sure there are plenty of frontends ...

i just recently lost tons of my mp3 collection by accident. View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif <BR>i did a disk recovery and i was only able to recover ...