Virtual CDR is a GREAT idea! Wow.

What's the "Total Recorder" solution? Something like Messer which records real-time audio passing through the sound card directly to MP3? That can "rip DRM" only as fast as playback speed; akin to taping a song off the radio.

A virtual CDR + Ripper could "rip DRM" as fast as the slower of the two, likely the writing end, something like 16x.

I wonder if the CD needs to be finalized before ripping can begin. That would smash the "simultaneous" idea.

What if you did virtual-DVD-Audio with some specification that allowed 4.7gig of 44.1kHz,16bit,stereo audio. That would allow ripping of 548 minutes of audio in one step, instead of 74 minutes at a time.