However, now that I'm using MacOS X as a desktop, I use iTunes, which is actually better, oddly enough.
Yep. I'm using iTunes OS X on an elderly iMac as the ripping and primary playback interface and it would be hard to improve on the UI for the importing process. For storage iTunes writes the mp3's to an NFS-mounted Linux file system currently on a 120GB IDE. The iMac stuff all works out of the box (though it does take a little bit of configuring to get NFS auto-mounting and NIS working on OS X) and I've got instant access to it all from other Linux and OS X systems, including the wireless laptop.
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Yep. I'm using iTunes OS X on an elderly iMac as the ripping and primary playback interface and it would be hard to improve on the UI for the importing process. For storage iTunes writes the mp3's to an NFS-mounted Linux file system currently on a 120GB IDE. The iMac stuff all works out of the box (though it does take a little bit of configuring to get NFS auto-mounting and NIS working on OS X) and I've got instant access to it all from other Linux and OS X systems, including the wireless laptop.
550 CDs down and I can't say it's 90% complete.