I've been recommended the following programs but which would be the best and why? Thanks for any advice.

Free (opensource)

FFMPEG
VideoLAN
CDEX
RazorLAME

Free (closedsource)

Audiograbber
dBpowerAMP
EnLAMEr
LAMEBatch
EAC
RipTrax

Commercial

WinAMP
Easy CD-DA Extractor

Also, but not commercial...foobar2K?