i'm basically looking for the most user friendly, the most simpliest, the least amounts of clicks, the least amount of setting up way of ripping from cd to mp3.

the quality does not have to be amazing, just any old mp3 encoder will do and the ripping speed is not important too.

any suggestions?

Windows Media Player, just go into the settings and change it from wma to mp3.

If anyone knows a easyer one than that, please tell! And you won't need to install it either.

Tools -> Options -> Rip Music "tab"

iTunes maybe?

You can configure it to automatically rip+encode+eject every CD you put in the drive.

Doesn't iTunes include a really crappy MP3 encoder compared to WMP's Fraunhofer one? I remember some discussion 'bout this somewhere... drat, now where was that? Don't know myself since I haven't used iTunes so far.

Strongly seconded. No easier way if you're running Windows.

CDex

All you have to do is stick the cd in select all the tracks and click a button on the side

iTunes uses a Fraunhofer IIS encoder. It is mediocre compared to LAME. I have not seen a comparison between WMP and iTunes encoded MP3s, but if they are both using Fraunhofer IIS encoders, I'd expect them to output similar files.

Too bad you have to download CDex first, lol

iTunes does not use a Fraunhofer encoder, it still uses the same MP3 encoder from when it was called SoundJam (and was not owned by Apple).

Your request leads me to suggest CD Ripper 1.4. It is not only FREE, but can do a lot with a minimum number of "clicks" by the user. Easy to understand and very compact, btw.

AudioCrusher? just to put lame.dll into the install directory and you can start ripping with it.

I don't know, but I think it's only available at www.sysdesk.de
...or google a lil bit

Ripping CDs with WMP is most n00b friendly way to rip CDs on Windows, by default it rips to WMA (no suprise) and it also uses a fhg encoder to rip to mp3. Also there is a error correction setting on WMP (off by default), but i have not tried it or heard anyone using it. If you are to rip to mp3 avoid iTunes, it has a really crappy mp3 encoder.

Windows Media Player:

Rips in WMA, WAV and MP3 formats.
Uses All Music Guide for CD metadata.

iTunes:

Rips in AIFF, WAV, Apple Lossless, AAC (Good performing encoder) and MP3 (Bad performing encoder)
Uses CDDB (Gracenote should be boycotted ) for CD metadata.

Most CD rippers can be used pretty easily. I'm sorry, but I couldn't recommend anything besides EAC. Opening EAC, putting in a CD, and pressing Shift+F5 isn't any more complicated than anything else. Of course you would have to set it up first, but having LAME MP3s makes it completely worth it. freedb helps too.

According to the FhG IIS FAQ on MP3, iTunes uses their encoder.

"Fraunhofer IIS is a research institute. Although MP3 was developed here, we do not sell any MP3 products to end users. MP3 encoders are available from various companies. They are integrated, for example, in Apple iTunes, Windows Media 10 and MusicMatch Jukebox."

Correct, iTunes does not use a Fraunhofer MP3 encoder.
Development has in fact continued since the SoundJam days. Significant changes were made for the 5.0 release. To my knowledge there have been no independent comparison tests with the current generation encoder but our in house tests showed nice improvement.