Can anyone point me in the right direction to some ripping software that will let me rip multiple songs as one long MP3 file?

If you are on Linux (or some other Unix), definitively cdparanoia (this is its default mode of ripping). As said a number of times here, it is excellent (but slow) ripper.

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green
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Dragi "Bonzi" Raos Q#5196 MkII #080000376, 18GB green MkIIa #040103247, 60GB blue