retrocomputing

I think I just used the ripper in MusicMatch Jukebox that came with my computer. It was only the "shareware" version, so I was limited to 96 kbps.

I still have many of those in my collection. When I throw on the actual CD or hear it in a higher/lossless format, they sound "wrong" because I'm still so used to the crappy 96kbps rips I had with me on my MP3 player for years.

On the plus side, those smaller files let me fit several more songs onto my 64 MB MP3 player from 2001 or so (it used a parallel port to transfer lol)

Winamp

Audiograbber with the LAME codec. Actually still have it on my computer. I still buy the random CD now and again and rip it to my media server, and then never touch it again.

KAudio....something. It was a KDE tool that could rip and encode in parallel.

dMC. it might have been the first one i 'found', and just kept using it; up to r9, i think. after that i just used 'whatever' a distro had on linux or wmp on windows.

I was on Linux and used grip

I don't remember what it was called, but it came with a weird spongy thing that was supposed to make it easier to apply sticker labels. I was young and stupid and thought the sponge thing would also copy the label somehow.

That one. Was great. Software used to be fun

Tracker or cdparanoia. IIRC cdparanoia was more reliable.

I don't know about still maintained, but it's one of those pieces of software that did one task, did it well, and the one part you might want to update (the encoder) was a plugin. As such, even though it's not seen any significant update since 2004, it's really the only CD ripper I've ever used. All the way back to some old Pentium machine where ripping and encoding a CD to MP3 took longer than it would to play it. Though the times I've needed it in the past few years has dropped off considerably, and if I had to rip a CD today I'd actually have to boot up an old machine that still has an optical drive.