Produces the best sounding MP3's I've heard. It was a big deal getting installed but is easy once you get it working. FINALLY allows all of the LAME options. I use "--r3mix" and love it. The best thing is that it accurately uses CDDB data that iTunes gets. Even the year of the cd is added. Sorry Audion and N2MP3 Pro, this provides better encoding options and uses the latest LAME. Besides...it's FREE! 4 stars because about 1 in 15 CD's don't encode. You should keep iTunes in the foreground until Apple fixes AppleScript when using this.