FreeRip MP3 is a free application that can record digital audio tracks directly from compact discs, without going through your sound card this process is known as "ripping".

You can save tracks as CD-quality WAV files or encode them to Ogg Vorbis or MP3 compressed audio format.

Moreover you can encode existing 16 bit WAV files to Ogg Vorbis or MP3 format. CDDB and ID3 Tagging are supported, moreover FreeRIP MP3 integrates an installing facility for the Ogg Vorbis Plugin for Winamp.