Also... unless you have a cheap portable music player that only plays MP3s, I suggest you look into ripping to Ogg Vorbis format. Its algorithms allow for higher quality encoding at lower bitrates, thus saving file size. 192 kbps Ogg Vorbis sounds a hell of a lot better than 192 kbps MP3. Even 128 kbps Ogg Vorbis sound fairly good, which can't be said for MP3.
Of course, the best would be to rip to a lossless format such as FLAC, but that can eat a lot of hdd space. They are about 300 MB or so per album.
If you don't like EAC, you could get
Foobar2000, a really good music player that can also convert audio files (such as the .cda files on a CD) to a ton of different formats just by selecting them from a playlist and choosing Convert from right click menu. You might need the "special" installer to get the convert plugin by default. You do not get as exact copies as with EAC, but it is probably easier to use.
Either of these can plug in to FREEDB for getting album and track info for the meta tags.