Thanks for the link to TotalRecorder, Tony. I've been trying to extract audio with Smartripper and converting to mp3 with various tools. They all gave me errors about the VOB files being wrong.

With TotalRecorder, I used Pink Floyd The Wall for a test, saving as MP3 56k and as PCM 44100 format. The PCM came out to just over 1 Gb converted with Musicmatch to MP3 128k was about a 38Mb file. I have noise from what I believe is the fan switching on and off, I used my laptop to do this, not the best environment to eliminate external noise. And Tony is absolutely correct about the gaps disappearing in the recorded results.
Now to go extract Spinal Tap for the drive to Phoenix on Friday!!!

1012 miles, over 3000 tunes on the empeg, Rio remote in hand, 360 cu in of Dodge Magnum Power under the hood, let's hit it!