Exact Audio Copy, or often simply EAC, is a well known Digital Audio Extractor (CD Ripper) for Windows. It has tons of features, the primary ones are:

• CDROM read/write offset aware
• External audio encoder support
• Built in CD-Burning (from files as well as CUE sheets)
• Secure mode (an accurate way to rip CDs)
• CD Player
• CDROM drive feature detection
• CD-TEXT support
• ID3 tag editor
• CDDB aware
• lots more; see the homepage.