MP3s range from 128Kbps to 320Kbps.

1. Open Windows Media Player
2. Right Click → More Options
   1. Rip Music
      1. Select the folder
      2. Select the format: MP3
      3. (Do not “Rip CD Automatically” because you want additional information from the Internet.)
   2. Library
      1. Retrieve additional information from the Internet

Perfect CD-ripping to FLAC with Exact Audio Copy (Guide, How-to)

1. EAC → Metadata Options (maybe choose provider, not GD3)
2. EAC Options → General:
   1. Check “Use alternate CD Play routines” (Default)
   2. Check “Disable 'CD Autostart' for audio and data CDs while EAC running”
   3. Check “On unknown CDs,” and select “automatically access online metadata database”.
3. EAC Options → Naming Scheme
   1. FLAC\%artist%\%albumtitle%\%tracknr2% - %artist% - %title%
   2. FLAC\Various Artists\%albumtitle%\%tracknr2% - %artist% - %title%
4. Compression Options
   1. User Defined Encoder
   2. .flac
   3. \Flac\flac.exe
   4. Additional command-line options: -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "PERFORMER=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "DISCNUMBER=%cdnumber%" -T "TOTALDISCS=%totalcds%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %source% -o %dest%

Here's a recommendation to write a huge FLAC file for the whole album with embedded cue sheet, metadata and album art, from which cuetools or Foobar2k could be used to bulk-convert to MP3s later (click “show quoted text” too).

• foobar2000
• CUETools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgxPyTBgu74