Total recorder sounds very interesting though...

It's a good product, works as advertised. It takes advantage of the fact that your sound card must get its data from the application raw, ie, without data compression or copy protection. All that Total Recorder does is insert itself as a "shim" audio driver in the Windows control panel. To the applications, it looks like a sound card. It intercepts that data and shunts it to disk before passing it on to the real sound card driver. So even the thorniest of DRM'ed audio is saved as raw digital wave audio by it. If you can play it through your sound card, you can save it with Total Recorder.

Neat trick, really. It's one of those ideas that I thought of independently on my own, only to discover someone else was already doing it.