Winamp has an input plugin, not sure how you could get it to select the optical input, but once you do that you just need to play the MD player and record in Winamp, you get a nice .wav file out of it ...

I've been looking for one of these puppies <I>forever</I>. I know there common ones for data storage but I need one for audio. Does anybody know where one of these could be obtained? I know they exist ...