Simple, fully tagging MP3 Ripper(Looking for)

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My Uncle's Previous Lincoln, had the stereo with the "jukebox" feature, where it had a small HDD, and you could rip your CD's to the disc directly, by just putting them in the stereo.

He liked that feature(most people didn't, as you couldn't import music to the jukebox any other way)
His New Lincoln, however, does not have this feature.
He wants me to write a step by step guide on how to copy cd's to a flash drive so he can use it in the car.

I'm a big out of practice, I haven't ripped a CD in several years, and 2 windows versions...
He has win 8.1
my gut reaction is to have him download iTunes and use it to rip, but i would have no idea on what to tell him to do once inside iTunes, I've never used it..(Completely irrational DEEP loathing of all things apple)

so, oh great Bitog Gurus, is there an easy, free, one or 2 step solution, that will fully tag all the metadata that Sync/MyFord Touch/etc depend on?
 
Windows Media Player still rips CDs. I use iTunes with all the settings maxed out. I think go through each file and correct everything. Doesn't take long and I have maybe 20-25,000 songs stored.
 
I don't rip CDs much anymore, but used to use Audiograbber when I did. It always worked well for me. It's pretty simple to use.
 
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Itunes. Apple is what it is, like it or not but Itunes is free and works great. Once you download it, click edit in the tool bar at the top of the home page, go into the preferences tab and select import settings, change it to MP3 Encoder, click the arrow in the drop down box, click custom, and set your MP3 import to 256 or 320 kbps, variable bit rate if you want that, whichever settings you like. Then you can rip the cd's in MP3 format straight into the Music folder. Then you can copy and paste or drag and drop the MP3 files from either the album itself out of the library or from playlists if you decide to create those to manage the MP3's. I find it easier to move songs from the album into their respective artists' playlist.

A really nice feature of Itunes is it will automatically level the volume of the MP3 files, which cuts down clipping and distortion. You can also normalize the MP3 volume with a great freeware program called MP3Gain. I buy MP3's from MP3million.com and always run them through MP3Gain before I transfer them to my flash drive. It is pretty annoying to have to constantly adjust the volume on MP3's that are encoded at varying levels. There are good Itunes forums online where you can get help. Ilounge is about the best one I have used.
 
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