I'm still using Audiograbber. It's free and you can choose the version of (installed) LAME. Therefore it's up to you, which beta of LAME do you want to use.
I now switched from EAC to the recent beta of dBpowerAMP RC 12 since it seems maintained, works very well with my Plextor and LG units and is said to spot errors better than EAC.
Do you really mean 'save side' or just 'safe side'?
And why do you mean that Audiograbber is outdated?
I think it is still a full featured tool - really good everlasting piece of software development.