retrocomputing

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

i remember acidrip. i remember it was a gtk program, written in some interpreted language: perl or python.

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 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.

I was on Linux and used grip

That one. Was great. Software used to be fun

Tracker or cdparanoia. IIRC cdparanoia was more reliable.

No idea. Whatever was the kde standard at the time I suppose.

I do remember feeding the online cd database though, back when it was still a group effort, before some asshole stole all of the data (same with the imdb on Usenet).

Not old enough to answer the question, but I used iTunes when I was a wee lad. Now I use Exact Audio Copy.

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.

I use sound juicer. I used it this month.

I did use AudioGrabber at the turn of the century though.