Music organizing

I'm working on organizing my music. I'm deciding what physical media I want to keep accessible (albums that I can see myself sitting through from front to back from time to time) vs albums I may only like a track or two from that I probably only need as data. (I'm a stick-in-the-mud, but it still pains me to say in "digital" form. CDs are digital.) I'm starting with ripping all my CDs to my hard drive as FLAC. They take up more space than I realized they would, so I'm considering high bitrate MP3s instead. Honestly, with the speaker system I'm using, it probably doesn't matter that much, though I do intend, someday, to have a decent hi-fi setup, at which point I'd love to conduct some blind tests.

Anyway. I can't figure out why my Tori Amos "Tales of a Librarian" CD won't rip. Everything else has worked fine so far. Maybe there's some kind of copy protection on it? It plays in both my stand alone CD player and in the PC optical drive I'm using.