Im pretty sure you meant by lowering the Bitrate?
you can try Xilisoft, but as i said, theres the "keep clicking cancel" thing until you buy it.
Or you can use Freerip. which back then it lets you convert/add as much songs as you want, but now you can only add like 10 songs at a time or so.
Those were the only ones i tried/ mentioned to me.
EDIT - Oh yeah, are we going to SLI after Mike transfer my rig to a new case, or do you want to wait?