Hiya!
Please can you help me on a few things.
I want to put my cds in ogg vorbis at 64Kbps.
I want to use CDDB (or similar) to save having to type in the names of songs and for IDV tags.

So I got FreeRip (latest version) and installed it. It does everything I want except the ogg quality settings don't work right. I want to use VBR as I belive this is recommended for ogg. It i select 64Kbps (average), it does about 200Kbps nominal bitrate! So I selected 16Kbps and it did 72 Kbps nominal. I can't get 64Kbps and the quality selection is totally messed up!
Size is important (I use an SD card in my palm) so I do want 64kbps.
I tried with nero and an ogg plugin. This gives quality setting, so i use 0 which gives 64Kbps nominal which is great! BUT the CDDB does not put IDV tag on the oggs, just puts the song names in the file name.

Please help! All I want is 64Kbps with IDV CDDB tags!
So near yet so far.....
Thanks!

P.s. Both nero and FreeRip use this:
Xiph.Org libVorbis I 20020717
but Ogg drop XP uses:
Xiph.Org libVorbis I 20030308
which is obviastly newer. Is the newer one sound better? How can I put the latest libVorbis in FreeRip or Nero?
Thanks!

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

Try CDex. If you have a really cheap cd-rom drive (ie. no cache), then the paranoia ripper in CDex will give you very clean audio. Then go to rarewares and download the Post CVS 1.0 dlls for CDex (since you will be ripping at 64 kbps, Post CVS 1.0 is the best), put them in the same folder as CDex.

CDex is free and has CDDB support as well as tagging.