CDex used to be my goto CD ripper since it was quick and beautiful (basic). However, recently the CDDB database which it used to populate album, artist, title info for the tracks, has gone kapput.
I switched over to
Exact Audio Copy (EAC). There's a learning curve with it, but it does import the CD info from a different database (you just have to get it all configured correctly). EAC has been recommended in
boards of the high-fi community for years.