I use Windows Media Player, but then again, I never expected to be entertained with ripping a CD. Unless you're ripping a lot of them, I don't think it takes all that much time.
Incidentally (some will find this quite hilarious), although I have a growing collection of flash drives, I've got not one, but two CD/DVD drives in my computer. I'll probably never use both at the same time, but you never can tell. (I still use CDs sometimes, and on rare occasion, a floppy - the 3.5" of course).