Better ripper than iTunes on Leopard?

hi guys,
i love iTunes and am not interested in starting another flame war...
but i was never quite satisfied with the ripping and encoding quality. on my Linux box I use cdparanoia (a ripper based on cdda2wav) and LAME (mp3encoder) and i like the flac format (and after archiving as loseless, i normally use lame to encode as mp3 for use on my ipod-nano).
being new to mac, i was wondering if there are any equivalents to cdparanoia/flac/lame or other alternative rippers to itunes.
anybody has any experience with Max?
By the way, I am pretty fluent with the command line, so you are not going to scare me with "make install" or other terminal solutions... LOL
thanks in advance

Hi minsf
I exclusively use iTunes but all my CDs are ripped as apple losseless so no complaints here. As to your questions here are some suggestions:
XLD
iTunes-LAME Encoder
Finallyt, the aac format is supposed to be better than mp3. For the same bit rate, better sound quality. I am not being an apple evangelist here as aac is not an apple codec but belongs to the mpeg group

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