I can say I have had sucess copying a Muzak cd (for backup purposes ONLY). Under Linux I was playing around with a few things and here is the code I used to copy the image to hd and then to disc.....

$ cat /dev/cdrom > Muzak_021.img
$ cdrecord -v -pad speed=1 dev=0,0,0 Muzak_* > Muzak_021.log

Worked fine, although sometimes the player does not reconize the disc. I am willing to say it is because of the brand of CD-R's I used.

NOTE: This test has only been sucessful on one CD out of 5, further testing will comince and I shall return with a solutition for this problem.

The issue of converting an MP3 to a MPA file has not yet been exzamined. I have taken a look at the files and the layout of the data and not been able to notice a pattern on the encoding of the audio files.

I will return with more data as soon as me and my partner finsh our studies on this subject.