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I needed a mp3 ripper for our wedding, gotta make a mix-tape. I don’t have an Ipod with a screen so want to use a friends. Can’t use a friends with music ripped with ITunes ( Digital Rights Management ). So I looked for mp3 ripping software and gui for osx. I wanted something like CDEX on windows. I found an OK solution in LAME ( compiled for Intel Mac ) and iTunes-LAME

iTunes-Lame uses iTunes to gather the info on a CD but uses LAME to encode it ( no DRM!!! ) http://blacktree.com/apps/iTunes-LAME/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lame

To use LAME on osx intel you have to compile it.

open a terminal ( Applications:Utilities:Terminal ) and type

su root
cd <directory where you unzipped lame>
./configure
make
make install

The PPC binaries of programs which use lame ( compiled for PPC ) ripped at about 1.8x. The Intel compiled version rips two songs at a time (one per processor) at 7x-8x each. Its worth compiling for.