Originally Posted by skofarrell
You may want to look at
Easy CD-DA extractor.. It will rip directly to .flac or .ape. It will also convert form one format to another...
EAC can do that as well.
I don't use that feature because it slows down the ripping process while it does the computation intensive compression. I prefer to have it do the part which requires manual intervention (inserting & removing CD's) quickly, then run the other part overnite when I'm sleeping.
I also use dbpoweramp for converting between formats. It's a great program.