I used AudioGrabber for a time. I don't remember why I went on to Easy CD-DA Extractor, but I think I must have had trouble with some CDs. That site mentions AudioCatalyst, and that's what I used before AudioGrabber. I really liked that, so I was disappointed Xing didn't update it.

And the 128k iTunes bitrate is one reason I really don't like buying music through them. I really wish high-resolution multi-channel audio downloads were more common. I'd even pay a reasonable premium.