I acually believe the report. It's easy to have fast internet when there are no other people on the pipe. What are there, three people in canada? I'm sure it took those three a long time to do 52 million tests, but i'm sure the internet is fast.

I have a box that meets those demands. A script which can be found on freshmeat.net called ripit.pl. It is a perl script (obviously) which controls a number of different rippers and encoders (look at the list and pick your favorites). When you put a disk in you simply type the script name and it rips, encodes, names and drops the files in a directory which is the name of the album. I believe this script will meet all the needs.