it's surprising difficult to rip from audio CDs in a error free manner

most tools do it badly and just accept what the drive gives them in default mode, often with glitches

Just use a tool that supports the AccurateRip database or similar, and check your checksums, right?

Like, ripping seems easy to me, you rip with something that supports a checksum database, and if it comes out with a correct checksum then it's right.