Taking songs from cd's then converting them into MP3

Hey, I've always used those old dam cd's and i want to take all my songs from my cd save them onto my hard drive then converting those saved song files into MP3 files so i can upload them onto my MP3 player. How can I do this with LAME. Because it seams that LAME and EAC just converts the whole cd into a MP3 not save the songs onto the hard drive then converting them. :S
Im quite new at this and i know im probably just missing something here... Can someone please help me?
Thx

 

Um yea I got to the point where i ripped the tracks of the CD onto my hard drive... I clicked on the MP3 icon chose directry to save in and it went and did its thing. but when i look in the directry all the ripped songs are still .WAV's how do i fix this?!?! Any help would be appreciated!
Thx
O yea why is it that every time im in EAC in the compression options when i click "ok" and even when i did not change anything it gives me the message " wrong path or program"???
Hmm another newb question...is EAC LAME? this is very confusing cause when i click on the LAME.exe a msdos window opens up and closes?!? someone please help

 

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

 

Hi MP2
From the sounds of your post there are some settings that need correction to make EAC purr. I have used EAC for the last 3 months and have no problems. I followed the following guides to set up EAC ( http://users.pandora.be/satcp/cd2mp3-en.htm and http://www.cd-rw.org/articles/archive/eac_and_lame_setup_guide.cfm)

Converting wav to MP3 takes some time

I hope this helps

 

why mp3 ? ogg or HE AAC is better.

 

Thanks, but um how do i uninstall EAC cause I already uninstalled it and its not showing up in the add/remove programs list. :S and theres no uninstaller.

 

Hey, I am using Xilisoft CD Ripper. It's easy to use and multi-options. You can get it from the site http://www.xilisoft.com. The site places a detailed guide.

 

Supplement the last post, uninstall it from installing program catalogue.
Another, Xilisoft CD Ripper supports ripping audio CD to Mp3, Wav, WMA, OGG, Mp2,etc. and converting between these audio formats. You may edit ID3 tag.

 

I find that MusicMatch does a great job of ripping songs to MP3 format from your CD's. Whatever mood I'm in sometimes I use Sonic Burner to convert to Wave. It's however a person feels like like it.